Sally Field Reveals Burt Reynolds as Her Worst On-Screen Kiss: A Tale of Excessive Drooling

In a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Sally Field spilled the beans on her worst on-screen kiss, which involved “a lot of drooling.”

The 76-year-old actress was responding to a viewer's question about her least pleasant mouth-to-mouth encounter.

Field initially hesitated before dropping the bombshell.

“Oh boy, shall I really name names here?”

she pondered.

“Okay, this is gonna be a shocker, hold on folks,” she exclaimed, before quickly revealing, “Burt Reynolds.”

The audience and fellow guest Idina Menzel erupted in laughter as Field elaborated on her experience kissing the late actor, with whom she first starred in 1977's Smokey and the Bandit.

“It was just not something he really did very well,” Field chuckled.

“I could go into detail, but you don't want to hear it.”

When pressed by Cohen if she was referring to “tongue,” Field clarified, “No…just a lot of drooling was involved.”

Field and Reynolds had a tumultuous relationship that began during their time filming Smokey and the Bandit and lasted for five years in the late '70s and early '80s.

In her 2018 memoir In Pieces, released shortly after Reynolds' death at 82, Field delved into the complexities of their love affair.

Since then, the two-time Oscar winner has been candid about their connection, including Reynolds' admission that Field was “the one that got away” and the love of his life.

During an interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America following Reynolds' passing, Field shared intimate details about their time together, describing him as “a complicated man.”

“We had known each other about three days, four days at that point [during the filming of Smokey and the Bandit].

It was instantaneous, and four days felt like four years,” Field revealed.

“You can see it in our faces.

We were sort of, you know, deeply entangled,” the Steel Magnolias actress confessed to Sawyer.

“It wasn't just a simple love affair,” she added.

“There was some dynamic between us that revolved around my nurturing nature and his need for care.”

In 2016, Field spoke to PEOPLE and concurred when asked if she was the one who got away from Reynolds, who had referred to her as “the love of my life” in a 2015 Vanity Fair interview.

“Well, yeah,” Field replied at the time.

Field has consistently maintained a coy stance when addressing Reynolds' public remarks about their relationship and its conclusion.

In a 2015 interview with PEOPLE, she stated that she had “no response” to his declarations.

“Any response I would have would belong to him,” she explained.