Sally Field Passes on The First Wives Club Role

0:00It's April 27th, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Entertainment in Celebrity News today, your AI-powered Entertainment Report. Sally Field recently opened up about passing on a big role in the 1996 hit, The First Wives Club. Even though she loved working with stars like Beth Middler and Goldie Hahn, the two-time Oscar winner just couldn't get behind the script's take on. Older women chasing dates, or more bedroom action, with their husbands. She felt there was way more deaf women over a certain age, deserved on screen. And that kind of storyline wasn't her vibe at all. The movie follows three X-wives teaming up for revenge on their cheating husbands who've traded up for younger partners. Field was eyed for the part of Annie, the nervous housewife fighting to save her marriage, until she uncovers her man's affair with their therapist. Instead, Diane Keaton stepped in and nailed it. Little straight up saying Keaton was the perfect pick, and she wouldn't have matched that energy. Looking back, she sees it as the right call for the film.

1:01Smart move all around, keeping that classic intact just how it needed to be.