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Sally Field Will Be Spielberg’s Mary Todd Lincoln

Steven Spielberg’s long been attached to the idea of casting Sally Field in a biopic of Abraham Lincoln, and even had her set to play Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, in a years-ago version of the project that would have starred Liam Neeson. Now, with Lincoln ready to shoot this fall with Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, Spielberg has confirmed in a press release that Field will still play Mary Todd. It’s a casting coup for the 64-year-old Field: Though the real-life Mary Todd was nine years younger than her husband, Field is eleven years older than Day-Lewis and almost twenty years older than Mary Todd was when she became First Lady. Needless to say, all that Boniva is definitely working out for her.

Sally Field Will Be Spielberg’s Mary Todd Lincoln