Sally Field is reveling in her kiss-and-tell period.
The “Spoiler Alert” star and “Brothers & Sisters” alum continued her high-profile peck-and-name-drop tour Thursday when she revealed that her “Smokey and the Bandit” co-star Burt Reynolds gave her a slobbery smooch.
Taking fan questions on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” the “Gidget” star was requested about her worst on-screen kiss and didn’t, er, maintain her tongue.
“Oh, boy, shall I really name names here?” the 76-year-old actor laughed. “OK, this is gonna be a shocker, hold on folks: Burt Reynolds.”
When host and next-door neighbor Andy Cohen prodded her for extra particulars, the two-time Oscar winner added: “It was just not something he really did very well. I could go into detail, but you don’t want to hear it … a lot of drooling was involved.”
The actors co-starred within the 1977 movie and its 1980 sequel, in addition to the 1978 movie “Hooper.” They dated for about 5 years across the making of the movies and Field detailed their rocky romance in her 2018 memoir “In Pieces,” which was revealed mere days after Reynolds died. The “Boogie Nights” actor beforehand described Field because the “love of my life” and “the one who got away.”
In a 2016 look on the Bravo discuss present, Field stated that “without a doubt” her greatest on-screen kiss was with James Garner within the 1985 movie “Murphy’s Romance.” At the time, she additionally stated that her 1981 “Back Roads” co-star Tommy Lee Jones had been her worst, however chalked it as much as the actor being “in a bad phase of his life.”
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