Sally Field As Gidget
Sally Field’s big break came in 1965 with the film Gidget, in which she played a surfer girl who was always getting herself into trouble. At the time, she was 18 years old. The actress shared, “After the first night of my workshop, a casting guy asked me if I had an agent. I didn’t, but I still went in for an interview. The waiting room was filled with girls who looked like movie stars. They all had professional headshots; the only pictures I had were wallet photos of me with my friends. At my screen test, I walked in and said, ‘Which one is the camera?’ The crew members were like, ‘Oh, boy.’ But the casting director said, ‘You’re it.’ God was looking out for me. He thought he’d throw me in the ocean and see if I could swim.”
Sally Field As Gidget
