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"I was 18, 19 years old. Who wanted to play a nun?" she laughed. "And it was the ‘60s by then! Everybody was, you know, eating granola and dropping out and marching and walking around naked!"
"I was trying to figure out who I was, but I knew who I wasn't: a flying nun," she teased. "I was almost 19, and my sexuality needed to be explored. My real father was Catholic, and I had issues with all religions. So I said no, which I thought was incredibly brave."
However, Field's stepfather, a stuntman who worked in the industry himself, pushed her to take the role after the cancellation of her prior show, Gidget.
Sally Field in 'The Flying Nun' in 1969Getty
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