Sally Field Champions US-Canada Ties After Emmy Win — SkimNews
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- Sally Field won an Emmy Monday night for Netflix's 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' and used backstage press to advocate for U.S.-Canada friendship, praising Canada as 'magnificent' and urging the audience to 'fight for it,' 'stand up for it,' and 'resist.'
- Field singled out Vancouver — where one of her sons lives and which she called 'a filming city' — drawing applause from the press room and adding 'let's keep our friendships, let's keep our neighbors close.'
- The source notes Field did not explicitly name President Trump's tariff war with Canada, but says it's 'not difficult to draw conclusions' about what she was referencing.
- Trump has separately backed a federal film tax incentive for the first time, opening a door to a potential bipartisan bill before year's end, as the U.S. has long lost production to Vancouver and other foreign territories.
- Field also took the stage Monday to participate in a tribute to her friend Dolly Parton, her 'Steel Magnolias' co-star, telling press: 'She was a friend. I admired her. I loved working with her. I never stopped loving her.'
- Field admitted she hadn't reunited with Parton in recent years because 'Dolly and I lived so far apart,' but said 'the times we did reach out, I think she felt that way about me.'
Why it matters: A major Hollywood figure used her Emmy victory moment to make a pointed political statement about U.S.-Canada relations during an active tariff dispute, and she did so while celebrating a Netflix production filmed in Vancouver — putting Hollywood's reliance on Canadian production locations directly alongside the trade fight that's straining that relationship.
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