Sally Field explains why she hated working on 'The Flying Nun': 'I just had to put my head down'

The sitcom, which aired from 1967 until 1970, focused on the comical misadventures of a nun (Sally Field) who can somehow fly.

When the actress was asked by Variety on Thursday how she forced herself to get up every morning and perform for a project she hated working on, the star replied, "It was a job."

"And I learned to survive things," the 75-year-old explained. "It’s important to learn how to survive things, things you like, things you don’t like. I just had to put my head down and go to work and do the very best job I could. And those are the things when you realize that there’s a reason why you’re eating so much but trying to hide. You’re trying to cover up your depression. But at that point in my life, I didn’t have the skills to what was happening to me… and being able to see what your dreams are."