Ten years after Robin Williams' death, his former Mrs. Doubtfire costar, Sally Field, is sharing a story about the late actor that she has never shared before. Sally was working on the set of the 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire when she found out that her dad had died. After receiving the news, Sally tried to hide how she was feeling, but Robin Williams could sense that something was wrong, she told Vanity Fair. As she looks back on that memory, she remembers "a side of Robin that people rarely knew."
She shared the whole story with Vanity Fair. "I was in the camper outside of the courtroom where we were shooting the divorce scene," she explained. "My father had a stroke a couple of years before, and was in a nursing facility."
While in the camper, she received a call and was told that her dad had had a "massive stroke" and had died.
"[The person who called] asked if I wanted them to put him on the resuscitator. I said, 'No, he did not want that. Just let him go. And please lean down and say, "Sally says goodbye,"'" she told the outlet.
She tried to return to set and hide how she was feeling. She wasn't crying when she returned to set, she explained. "I came on the set trying with all my might to act," she said. However, Robin clearly noticed something was wrong. She was touched by how Robin handled the situation.
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"Robin came over, pulled me out of the set, and asked, 'Are you okay?'" she told the outlet. Initially, she responded with, "Yes, why?" Robin told her, "I don’t know, just thought [I’d ask] that.”
She then told him the truth: "No, I’m not, Robin. My father just passed." Robin's immediate reaction was: "Oh my God, we need to get you out here right now."
Robin "made it happen," she told the outlet. The filming schedule was adjusted to accommodate her. "They shot around me the rest of the day. I could go back to my house, call my brother, and make arrangements," she explained.
To her, the story is just one example of how "sensitive and intuitive" he was.
Another Mrs. Doubtfire cast member also witnessed Robin's sensitive side while she was grieving. Another side to Robin that people rarely saw, Mara Wilson told Vanity Fair, was his "quiet" side.
Mara explained that when she was 9 years old and grieving the loss of her mother, Robin was "very sweet."
"He came up to me and very gently asked how I was, and how my family was, but didn’t bring up anything that could have been painful," she explained.
