Throughout the years, two-time Oscar-winning actress Sally Field has made her distaste for her breakout, titular role in The Flying Nun known, but while opening up to People , she revealed it was fellow Actors Studio alum Jack Nicholson who helped get her career going again afterward. After starring in ABC’s hit fantasy sitcom from 1967 to 1970, Field said she “couldn’t get in a room to audition. I couldn’t get on the list. They thought they already knew what I was. ‘No, thanks. We don’t want any of that.’” Watch on Deadline She recalled thinking at the time that “I had to say to myself that if I wasn’t where I wanted to be, I had to get better.” Though the entertainment industry can often be “rotten” and “unfair … it had to be that it was on me to make it different. I felt if I wasn’t doing that, then I was just handing them all the power.” The Forrest Gump star began studying at the famed Actors Studio under founder and coach Lee Strasberg, alongside such performers like Nicholson.…