Sally Field reveals it was Jack Nicholson who ended her Hollywood drought after "The Flying Nun" made her unhirable [View all]

Sally Field famously had a hard time being taken seriously in Hollywood after starring in The Flying Nun. It was Jack Nicholson, she reveals, who helped end her drought.

Speaking to PEOPLE in this week's issue, Field, 79, says that after breaking out in the fantasy sitcom in the early 1970s, she “couldn't get in a room to audition. I couldn't get on the list. They thought they already knew what I was. ‘No, thanks. We don't want any of that.'”

The two-time Oscar winner recalls coming up with a career mantra: “I had to say to myself that if I wasn't where I wanted to be, I had to get better.” Hollywood may be “rotten” and “unfair,” she adds, but “it had to be that it was on me to make it different. I felt if I wasn't doing that, then I was just handing them all the power.”

Field says she began studying at the infamous Actor Studio in Los Angeles, and Nicholson, 89, was among the many “wonderful actors, really working actors” training with its founder and coach Lee Strasberg: “Everybody used to come. It was packed. You couldn't get in.”

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