Zelda fan Sally Field chastises Netflix co-star for not playing the games

Sally Field was introduced to The Legend Of Zelda thanks to superfan Robin Williams and continues to play the games on her Switch 2.

If you’re a fan of The Legend Of Zelda, you likely already know that the late Robin Williams was also obsessed with the series. So much so that he named his daughter Zelda, with Nintendo later hiring the pair to promote The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time 3D in 2011.

As it turns out, Williams also converted fellow actress Sally Field into a Zelda fan, when the two worked together on the 1993 comedy film Mrs. Doubtfire, where the pair played divorced parents.

Not only that, but at the age of 79, Field is still enjoying the series all these years later, so much so that she expressed shock upon learning one of her co-stars admitted he’s not touched the games.

This came about during a recent interview with Jake Hamilton for Remarkably Bright Creatures, which recently released on Netflix and stars Field as a cleaning lady who works at an aquarium and befriends a young drifter played by Lewis Pullman of Thunderbolts* fame, with the events of the film told from the perspective of a giant octopus.

Hamilton shared a portion of the interview to his Instagram, where he spoke with both Field and Pullman, with the clip focusing on Field’s relationship with Williams and her favourite memories of working with him.

Field explains that, while filming for Mrs. Doubtfire, Williams would regularly visit her so they could play Zelda together. She doesn’t specify which game but, given the timing, it was probably A Link To The Past on the SNES, since that was the newest entry (it launched in 1991 while Mrs. Doubtfire didn’t hit cinemas till 1993).

She must have enjoyed herself because she continues to play the games with her grandsons, adding that she owns a Nintendo Switch 2: ‘Even when my grandsons aren’t there, I pretend they are there. I play them.’

What’s especially amusing is when she turns to Pullman, 33, and asks if he’s played any of the Zelda games and when he says he hasn’t, she immediately responds with, ‘What the hell is the matter with you?! … It’s so fun.’

Pullman can only laugh and admit he’s missing out. He also doesn’t seem aware that the Zelda franchise is by Nintendo, as he asks whether Field uses a computer, which is not going to help anyone that wants to play the series legally.

Obviously, age isn’t a factor in one’s enjoyment of video games, but it’s still amusing that Field has more video game experience than Pullman, despite being more than twice his age and him being a 90s kid, when consoles like the original PlayStation and Nintendo 64 were taking off.

Pullman has actually been in a video game, serving as the narrator in last year’s Goodnight Universe, an indie puzzle where you play as a baby with psychic powers.

Clearly, Nintendo needs to get Field on board with promoting the live action Zelda movie when it releases next year in May. With filming confirmed to have wrapped up last month, it’s too late to slip her in as a cameo, but maybe they can call her in for the inevitable sequel.

Said movie only has two actors confirmed for it: Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link and Bo Bragason as Princess Zelda. Both are relative unknowns compared to the star-studded casts of the two Super Mario movies, but perhaps a big-name celebrity has been cast as Ganondorf or whoever the main villain is.

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