“We’d known each other about three days, four days,” Field informedABC News’Diane Sawyer.
“It was instantaneous, and four days felt like four years.
you’re able to see it in our faces.
We were sort of deeply entangled.”
Reynolds had advocated for Field to be his co-star in the movie.
“[T]alent is sexy.
And she’s got that,” he reminisced toTodayin 2018, explaining how he challenged her naysayers.
For Field, however, the past was not so rosy.
“It just was not something he did really well,” Field admitted.
“It’s just a lot of drooling was involved.”
The situation was even more difficult due to their offscreen relationship.
While she and Reynolds were a couple, they appeared onscreen together in four movies.
Lackluster kissing aside, Field has also been candid about other tumultuous aspects of her romance with Reynolds.
Field described their relationship onITV’s “This Morning"as “a perfect match of flaws.”
“I couldn’t be myself,” Field recalled.
“I was behaving the way I was taught.
That is, to be loved, I had to disappear.
So I disappeared.”
Field felt free to be honest while writing her book because she initially didn’t plan on publishing it.
“I did not want to hurt him any further,” she toldThe New York Times.
The actor regretted his actions and hoped to repair the relationship, but Field could notforgive her former partner.
Reynolds grieved their failed love affair the rest of his life.
“I miss her terribly,” the actor confessed toVanity Fairin 2015.
A year later, he told theDaily Mail, “That sense of loss never goes away.”
At the time, he fervently wished he and his old flame could reconnect via phone.
In contrast, Field avoided contact with her former boyfriend for 30 years.
“He was just not good for me in any way,” she explained toVariety.
