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Oscar-winning actress\u00a0Sally Field<\/a>\u00a0has opened up about resisting a specific type of role throughout her storied career in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s played a flying nun, a revolutionary pro-union textile worker, and a divorc\u00e9e who discovered that her ex-husband cosplayed as the family\u2019s elderly British nanny, but there\u2019s one type of role the\u00a0Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Norma Rae<\/em>\u00a0star has claimed she won\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI never take to stories about women that are trying to find a man,\u201d the 79-year-old two-time Academy Award winner said in a new interview with\u00a0PEOPLE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Field told the publication, \u201cI didn\u2019t like it then, and it doesn\u2019t appeal to me now, because I think women are about so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The star said that \u201clife is so much more complicated than that,\u201d and she\u2019s opted to take alternate parts throughout her later career \u2014 including in Netflix\u2019s new\u00a0Remarkably Bright Creatures<\/em>, in which she plays an aquarium worker who bonds with a younger employee and an octopus in their care.<\/p>\n

While Field maintained that she won\u2019t take roles in which the central woman is \u201ctrying to find a man,\u201d she did star in 2015\u2019s\u00a0Hello, My Name Is Doris<\/em><\/a>, which followed her as the titular office worker who becomes infatuated with her younger coworker and attempts to pursue him.<\/p>\n

Earlier in her career, including in the aforementioned 1979 drama\u00a0Norma Rae<\/em>, Field said she channeled a specific kind of emotion into roles that she felt were significant not only to popular culture, but to herself as a person.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing a little girl raised in the \u201950s and having a very complicated childhood with my stepfather and even my mother at times, I was filled with rage. Really filled with rage,\u201d she told PEOPLE. \u201cAnd it was working with [acting coach] Lee Strasburg that allowed me to begin to tap into it, to not let it devour me.\u201d<\/p>\n

While filming\u00a0Norma Rae<\/em>, for which she won her first Oscar in 1980, Field added, \u201cI asked [director] Marty Ritt, \u2018How angry can I be here?\u2019 He said, \u2018How angry are you?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Angry.\u2019 And so that was the first time I was ever really able to learn how to tap into my own rage on film.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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