Robin Williams told Sally Field that she should go home and made sure the shooting schedule was changed when her father unexpectedly died while she was filming “Mrs. Doubtfire” in the early 1990s, the actress revealed ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the legendary actor and comedian’s death.
“I never shared this story before,” the 77-year-old, who played Williams’ soon-to-be-ex-wife in the 1993 classic comedy, told Vanity Fair recently. “I was in the camper outside the courtroom where we were shooting the divorce scene. 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.”
She said she simply told hospital staff to “please lean down and say, ‘Sally says goodbye,’” because her father didn’t want to be on a resuscitator.
“I was, of course, beside myself,” she said. “I came on the set trying with all my might to …