What made Sally Field a standout choice for "Smokey and the Bandit" despite her reputation as a serious actress after "Sybil"?

Basically Sally Field fit the budget and that’s why she was hired and retained.

I remember some of the movie reviews disparaging Field as not being “sexy” enough and her character being poorly written. However when you watch the film, you realize that Reynolds wouldn’t have played off a “sexpot” actor, nor would a more dramatic female actor have worked. Field “fit” the role as written and she demonstrated that again in the first sequel. Her career took off, her personal relationship with Reynolds began, and the rest is history.

She worked cheap.

Hello, I have a question about astral projection. I started to get interested in this a little while after my mum passed in april. I thought I may be able to see her and speak with her if I managed to achieve astral projection. Since this interest, every time i sleep on my back I go into sleep paralysis. However, I cant progress into astral projection because it is very scary for me as I feel like I'm suffocating when this happens. I panic and force myself to wake up. This only ever happened about once a year before this. It sometimes lasts a long time. This has happened about 3 times per week since my mum died, as mentioned on a previous post. I no longer try to go into it anymore(due to the suffocating feeling), but it still happens. I read that sleep paralysis is the pathway to astral projection. Why has this started to happen so frequently since simply taking an interest in it? Is this connected to the afterlife? I am concerned about it as I now cannot seem to stop this happening. Could it be my mum trying to communicate? Im asking due to more knowledge around this in this group.

Question: What made Sally Field a standout choice for "Smokey and the Bandit" despite her reputation as a serious actress after "Sybil"?

Seriously.

The original budget for Smokey & The Bandit was $5.5 million. However the studio got cold feet and demanded that they give back $1 million, or the film wouldn’t get made. Burt Reynolds was the biggest cost in the budget and he would NOT take a pay cut. That left trimming down much of the story, some of the effects, and bringing stars like Sally Field and Jackie Gleason for “reasonable” amounts of money. At the time she was known for Sybil, Gidget and The Flying Nun, all of which played off her “innocence” not the fact that she was an attractive adult woman. Fields manager got her to take a budget wage and her Hollywood film career began in earnest.

Why do people still think Michael Jackson was guilty?