January 12, 1996
Web posted at: 10:45 p.m. EST
From Correspondent Sherri Sylvester
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Her career spans 30 years, but in "Eye For An Eye" Sally Field does something she has never done before -- not in real life, and not in 20-plus movies.
Hold a gun.
"I've never held a gun. I've never shot a gun. I don't ever want to do it again," Field says.
For the movie, Field says, she had to learn to shoot various weapons of different calibers. And she said she hated it. "I was shaking all over. I didn't like it and I felt that way when we shot the sequences, but I thought my character felt that way."
Her character seeks vigilante justice for the murder of her daughter. Two women are brutally raped and murdered as director John Schlesinger weaves his story of violent society.
Even as Washington targets Hollywood for its violent depictions, Kiefer Sutherland, who plays the film's other key character, believes only honest portrayals can deter the crimes. "To pretend that a brutal attack is less than a brutal attack is wrong," he says. (162K AIFF sound or 162K WAV sound)
But, like Field, he hated acting out those violent scenes.
He says his two scenes where he attacks the women in the film were probably the most trying for him. "Even though we're acting and it's make believe, I'm still physically putting someone in that position and still physically making it look like that's what I'm doing," he says. "It made me feel sick to have to do that."
Sutherland credits Field with keeping the mood on the set light between takes, in spite of the dark subject matter.
"I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it," Field says. "There would be times when I would be crying for hours and hours and hours, but mostly they were in and out of the picture. There were times to go hide and times to come out and play."
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