Sally Field has reminisced on her working relationship with the late actor and comedian, Robin Williams, in a red-carpet interview for PEOPLE Magazine.
The 76-year-old Academy Award winner had appeared at the Screen Actors Guild Awards over the weekend to collect a lifetime achievement award – a prize given to actors displaying outstanding achievement in the acting industry.
Past winners have included Dame Julie Andrews, Betty White, Morgan Freeman, and Robert De Niro.
However, it was a sweet moment on the red carpet that captured many Field fans’ attention, after she remembered her time filming 1993’s Mrs. Doubtfire with Williams, who tragically died by suicide in 2014 aged 63.
Field was asked specifically about Mrs. Doubtfire – a movie centered around a father (Williams) who pretends to be an elderly Scottish housekeeper in order to spend more time with his three kids amid his acrimonious divorce – and “what comes to mind” when she reminisces on those days.
The actress – who portrayed Williams’ on-screen wife Miranda Hillard – replied: “What you think about immediately is Robin. There isn’t a moment of it that’s not filled with my love and joy at being in his presence. I mean, Robin was Robin. He was everything he seemed to be: a generous, loving, sweet, geniously talented man.”
“We all miss him,” she then added. “He should be growing old like me, for God’s sakes. I hate it that he isn’t here.”
The flick also starred Pierce Brosnan, a British man with a “muddled tan” who portrayed Field’s love interest. Directed by Chris Colombus, the family favorite ended up raking in close to half a billion dollars at the box office and is widely remembered as one of Williams’ best movies.
The world mourned the funny man’s devastating passing in August 2014, which came as a shock to his family, friends, and fans across the globe. Several months before his untimely passing, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease – something fellow actor Michael J. Fox also lives with.
Williams previously spoke about his role in Mrs. Doubtfire, and how he managed to endure working with heavy prosthetics, stating (via Far Out Magazine): “Once in the right makeup and finding that voice, I was so freed up. You know, that very sweet voice. Initially, she sounded like Margaret Thatcher. Scared the hell out of children.
“I went, no, no. Make her very soft, and very dear, and say horrible things in that soft voice. The idea of that film, which literally came from a divorce counselor in my first marriage, was, ‘Don’t use your children as little hostages. Just treat them with love and respect, and you can get through this,'” he added.
As for Field, she was also asked at the SAG Awards whether she had good memories of her other projects, to which she answered: “I have memories, I think, of almost everything I’ve done. Except sometimes something will pop up and before I turn it off, and in the really young days of television, where I actually do not remember – I don’t remember being there, I don’t remember saying that. So it’s like literally an out-of-body experience.”