In 1993, Sally Field was in a camper outside the courtroom set of Mrs. Doubtfire, about to shoot the film’s custody hearing scene, where the court pulls Robin Williams‘ character away from his kids. Her father had suffered a stroke a couple of years earlier and was living in a nursing facility. While she waited to film, the phone rang. It was the doctor. Her father had suffered a massive stroke, and he was asking whether she wanted him resuscitated.

As Field recounted to Vanity Fair in its retrospective marking 10 years since Williams’ death, she already knew the answer. Her father hadn’t wanted that.

“I said, ‘No, he did not want that. Just let him go,’” she recalled. “And please lean down and say, ‘Sally says goodbye.’”

Then she hung up the phone in the camper on a comedy set, having just let her father die, and decided she was going to do the scene anyway.

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