Sally Field is a proud mother of gay son – she did her best to encourage him to discover his true self (Page 2 ) | September 17, 2024
Speaking of the episode where Kevin comes out gay, Gresiman, 35, drafts in an essay honoring his mom, “…a frank, heartfelt conversation about my queerness was used verbatim for a scene between her and Matthew Rhys. Still waiting on a retroactive writing credit on that, if I’m being perfectly honest…”
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Greisman, the youngest of Field’s three sons, references roles his mom played with milestones in his life, and says, “I grew up so connected to my mom that I can trace my life through her career.”
When Field was on set with the late Robin Williams for Mrs. Doubtfire (1994), Greisman was building model airplanes that he hung all over their rented San Francisco home. When filming Forrest Gump (1994) with Tom Hanks, Field bribed her son nightly, with a toy from the store in Beaufort, S.C in exchange for Greisman to sleep without a pacifier.
When Field made her professional stage debut in the 2002 Broadway production of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Greisman fell in love with New York. He later went to school at NYU, which also holds a memory of his mother, who delayed shooting in her first week of Brothers and Sisters to help her son move into his dorm.
