Earlier today, Steven Spielberg announced that Sally Field will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln , the DreamWorks biopic of the 16th president of the United States. This is exciting news for everyone including Spielberg, who remarked, “[Field] has always been my first choice to portray all the fragility and complexity that was Mary Todd Lincoln.” Lest anyone doubt that Spielberg’s “Team Field” sentiment is authentic, let’s rewind the clock to four years ago, when the director was first championing the Oscar winner for the juicy role.
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For the Second Time in Four Years, Sally Field is Steven Spielberg’s Mary Todd Lincoln