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Sally Field, co-star in ‘Forrest Gump,’ appears to take shot at Tuscaloosa

If life turned out different for Sally Field, she may have ended up living in Tuscaloosa. But she wouldn’t have been pleased about it.

Field mentioned the Alabama city, home of the University of Alabama, when she was asked Friday by the Hollywood Reporter what she would be if she was not an actress.

“It’s not a question. I wouldn’t be. I would not be. It’s what I am, it’s what I’ve always been,” Field said. “There was nothing else. There was just nothing else. I would be really, really unhappy overweight person somewhere deep in Tuscaloosa.