Sally Field has stated that Robin Williams changed the shooting order of “Mrs. Doubtfire” so that she could finish filming after her father’s death.
Field, who starred alongside Williams in the 1993 comedy, admitted that he helped her get off the set for a while to prepare after her father’s death.
After Williams realized something was wrong, he took the initiative to arrange things with director Christopher Columbus.
“I have never told this story before,” Said Field.
“I was in the RV outside the courtroom where we were filming the divorce scene. My father had had a stroke a few years ago and was in a nursing home. I got a call from the doctor telling me that my father had died – a massive stroke. He asked if I wanted them to put him on the resuscitator. I said, ‘No, he didn’t want to. Just let him go. And please bend down and say, Sally says goodbye.'”
She added: “I was beside myself, of course. I came on set and tried to act with all my might. I didn’t cry. Robin came over, pulled me off the set and asked, ‘Are you OK?'”
After Field told Williams about the incident, she remembered him telling her: “Oh my God, we have to get you out of here immediately.”
“And he made it possible – they revolved the rest of the day around me. I was able to go home, call my brother and arrange everything. That’s a side of Robin that people hardly knew: he was very sensitive and intuitive.”
Robin Williams died in 2014 at the age of 63. He was known for his roles in films such as Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting And Mrs. Doubtfire.
