Sally Field Recalls Touching Gesture From Robin Williams On ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Set: “He Was Very Sensitive And Intuitive”

Sally Field is shedding light on a moving moment with the late Robin Williams .

In a recent Vanity Fair story commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Mrs. Doubtfire star’s passing, Field reflected on a touching gesture of Williams’ on the set, a story she claimed she’s “never shared” previously, per Page Six .

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“I was in the camper outside of the courtroom where we were shooting the divorce scene,” she recalled. “My father had a stroke a couple of years before, and was in a nursing facility. I got a phone call from the doctor saying my father had passed, a massive stroke.”

Field had been asked if she “wanted them to put him on the resuscitator,” but said her father “did not want that” and urged them to “just let him go.’

“And please lean down and say, ‘Sally says goodbye,’” she shared.

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While Field said she “was of course beside [her]self,” she attempted to keep her composure at work, highlighting that she “came on the set trying with all [her] might to act” and she “wasn’t crying.” However, Williams noticed something was off.

“Robin came over, pulled me out of the set, and asked, ‘Are you okay?'” she continued. “’Yes, why?’ ‘I don’t know, just thought [I’d ask] that.'”

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After Field told Williams that her “father just passed,” Williams immediately took action to insure that she could grieve properly.

“’Oh my God, we need to get you out here right now,'” Field remembered Williams telling her. “And he made it happen—they shot around me the rest of the day. I could go back to my house, call my brother, and make arrangements. It’s a side of Robin that people rarely knew: He was very sensitive and intuitive.”

Among the others who spoke to Vanity Fair about Williams were the film’s director Christopher Columbus , as well as Mara Wilson , who played one of he and Field’s on-screen children in the beloved comedy. Wilson reunited in the spring with Matthew Lawrence and Lisa Jakub (the other two actors who portrayed Williams and Field’s children in the film) for an episode of Lawrence’s Brotherly Love podcast.

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