Kim Fields
Appearances
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Come on, that's a jam. For the younger listeners, listen to me. This is from the classic film, The King and I, and probably your grandmother made you watch it on VHS. That's how old this is.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Well, it's timing and we're talking about getting to know each other. And the thing is, is that we learn, I feel that we learned really quickly that, you know, you could toss a ball in that direction and she was going to catch it and throw it back. Like, again, it wasn't written on the page. Take as much time as you need to milk the moment for the awkwardness.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
You had to feel it and know it and had to feel it and know it together. So it's great.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
That's right. Or did Regine in that moment go like, wait a minute, on second thought, he is a good man. Maybe I should have let him go. Is that what it was? It was just like, I don't want her to have him.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
then it's in the all clear. Now, the question also is, did Charles start dating Max as a rebound from you? Like, well, you don't want me. I'm going to go ahead and go with your friend. We haven't explored that. You know, we should push it, push back on it. There's the reboot, folks.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
It's a new version of Charles and Charles. No, it's true. Right. Like, did he just go like, you dump me, watch this?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
He was innocent and all of it. Yeah, exactly. I admire Max. Sure, she's a colleague.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And you see Regine, you know, reveal some things. Well, I know, you know, I'm superficial and I'm whatever. I don't believe she believes that. Does she believe that?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I love that you wrote the contract on the spot. No resident of this home or visitor of this home said boyfriend within the legalese.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Get in there. Get in there. Oh, nice. Get in there. Ladies and gentlemen, here's the building.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
About to get his- Free to paint. Yeah, free to paint.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Which he was so excited about that. He was. But I don't know if you all remember, John actually had some misgivings. He was like, why would they give me Frida Payne? Sexy Frida Payne. I wouldn't be scared of her. They had Overton being all scared. I wouldn't be scared of that older woman. She's sexy and all. So he had a real problem with it. That's right.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
You know, John being maybe newer to sitcoms, maybe he didn't have said they have to create that conflict.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And, you know, of course, she's gorgeous. He's like, I would give her a run for her money. What you talking about? He was so upset. Like, why they have me running away from her? I look like a damn fool. Yeah, exactly. I look like a damn fool. Turn it down.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
He was so upset. Like, John, it's a show.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I want to ask a question since we have feels here too. I have a memory of us having these incredible guest stars come over, you know, five years and Do you all have a memory of this thing that would happen that we didn't talk about? Each one of us would take the guest star under our wing without speaking. It wouldn't be like, feels, it's your week.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Go make sure that so-and-so is happy and in their trailer. It just happened, this magical thing where you would take someone and, okay, this is the week. Okay, hi, welcome. We're so happy that you're here. We love having you. And we would just sort of act as the host or the hostess to make them feel warmed and welcomed. Did you all have that moment? Or is that just a memory that I have?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
The conflict between the two of you all is bigger than the man.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Welcome back to Reliving Single, the official, unofficial Living Single rewatch podcast.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We fell into a space, man. No, but it's important because this is what the audience doesn't know or doesn't get to see. And they see this perfect show and this perfect experience. And yes, I'm calling it perfect because it was. It lives in this... Beautiful bubble. And we have new generations watching it all the time.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
But they couldn't know what was happening behind the scenes, which is why this rewatch podcast is so important. You feels never gave off that you were floundering. I wouldn't know that. So I opened my mouth like, you mentioned it once, but I go like. Photographic memory.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
The floundering was what happens at that age, too.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
The only thing I would... I'll just do a timeout on is I was actually... I'm older than you all. So I'm already in my 30s while you all are 23 and 24 respectively. So I'm now... Yeah. I'm nine years older than most of you. Eight to nine years older. So I'm now watching these amazing women who are still in their 20s who...
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
have it together, who seemed to know what they... I was, you know, I'd been married and divorced already. So I was witnessing you all hold it together in a way that I was like, when I was 23, I didn't have myself together, but I also hadn't been professional, you know, professionally in the business and witnessing. So from outside looking in, you all...
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I mean, this Queen Latifah who's traveled the world and she's Queen Latifah. You came in strong and steady and sure. And you came in as Kim feels strong and steady and sure. And so there was no signs of weakness. I'm calling it weakness. I'm saying floundering could be considered weakness. It was becoming. And becoming means that it's not a weakness at all.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
But I didn't know that you were suffering weakness. And I couldn't tell that you were trying to figure it out because you were steady. Maybe the point is that we're really good actresses, all of us. That we're professional. Because we did not. No, we didn't let up. It didn't show in the work.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And we know plenty of stories on plenty of sets where people's hot messery or wandering or becoming.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
You know what? We haven't talked about this.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We did talk once about the depression that happened after the show, which I didn't know about you feels. I didn't know until you shared. Like, wow. And of course, there would be a letdown after having this incredible high. And that comes with life. We'll be right back after this break. We've got more Kim feels. All feels all the time. All the feels. All the time.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
To get to spend time in that space and to witness her being generosity.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We so loved watching this episode with you, Kim. It brings back all the memories, all the good stuff.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Thank you. Thank you. This is The Reverb, our time to reflect on the episode's themes and how they still echo throughout the culture.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Oh my goodness. Well, we're going to talk about your magic and your amazingness, and we're going to talk a little bit about your career and a lot about the, I mean, I said legend in the joking way, but it's very true and very real.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Legend. In fact, we have our tissues stuffed just in case we need to.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Later on. Get ready. I want to know about your first experience of living single. How did you find out about it? What was your first everything about living single?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I remember Yvette saying that, you know who would be great? Because we've been talking and I have this regime and you know who would be perfect? Kim Fields. And I was like, oh. oh, that's interesting. Because it's very different from any character we've ever seen you in. You had been doing some adult roles and we had seen you on Fresh Prince. So it was like, oh, okay. And this would be great.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Okay, I didn't know the show. That was the origin story.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
How did you... embody Regine? What did you do to really take her on?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Wow. That's the origin. Here's the other piece of the origin story that's really sweet. So Kim Fields invited all of us, so I guess we must have done the part.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Yes. Yes. And you rented a Winnebago for us to come and see you.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And we drove out in the middle of nowhere to come see this show. We were like the Beverly Hillbillies, blackface. All this Winnebago. We did this thing.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
It's time for The Rewind, where we watch and relive living single with you. We're here to rewatch the show. That's why you're here. And to get your flowers and to get the love.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We came to see you. Here we go. So we know that you're a director now. And we've both been directed by you on Living Single. And I got a chance to work with you on The Upshaws.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Yeah. Everywhere I look up, you're everywhere. It's amazing. But you were directing before you were directing. And I'm going to take you back to a moment that I always tease you about. But it really is about your generosity. So I'm going to take you back to a moment early on in our season, season one. And you came over to me and said, just so you know, camera four is your camera.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Get your camera, girl. Camera one is my camera because I'm going to get my looks. Get your camera. Get your looks, girl. Because the director, I guess, was directing the whole show, but hadn't yet zoned in on saying, okay, make sure that you like, camera four is your camera. Because you didn't want to appear to be giving notes.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
But it was generous for you to go, get your camera, girl, because I'm going to get mine. And it was generous. And it was directing. And you realize that something was missing. Like, you're going to miss this great shot if you don't, you know, center. And nobody's telling you, so I'm going to tell you. And you set this precedent of going, oh, you have something.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Could somebody come and fix her makeup? Okay, is this okay? Like, generosity and caring and giving a damn. That's true. And I watch you direct. And it's amazing how you... I guess the best directors keep it all in their head and all in their heart all at the same time. But you never see you blink. I was waiting. I said, is she going to blink? Is she going to blink? Jimmy, you got that?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Joey, can we get that? Okay, can we fix this? She doesn't like her chair. Fix this. Okay. Very good. Are we getting? And ready to do your own lines. I was like, how is she running things? Hold on just a moment. I'm going to go take a look at it, Kim. You look good. Kim, move to the left. Which Kim? Yes, I'm talking to you. I'm Kim talking to the other Kim. Move to the left. All right, we got it.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We got it, everybody. Lock it down. Very good. And I was like, what? But this is her home. This is her home.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Did you absorb all of this? Did you go to school to become a director? You did. Oh, you did.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Let's have a moment for Chip Fields. Yes.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Chip Heard. Yay. Chip Heard. Chip Heard. Fields Heard was working with Pearl Bailey in Hello Dolly.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
What do you love about directing that is so different from acting?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I admire you for being... You're not only an actor's director, but... you know how to talk to your crew. You know how to get the best out of your crew. And what a lot of people don't know is that a lot of filmmaking is problem solving. Like this is here, but we really need it to be here. Well, let's fix the shot so we make it happen. And so you work with people who are
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
happy to help you lift that vision.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Not at all. But you didn't see that as a... As a burden, but as a responsibility. There's a lightness in the way you just said it.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
This is so good. I'm loving this. But now it's time to hear from the people, from the fans, from the family responsible for our success over the years.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Get it? I do. We'd love to hear questions from you. So you just go to relivingsinglepodcastatheartbeat.com to get your questions in. We want to answer these questions for you.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Are we not going to answer that question? Come on.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Cut that shit out. Why not? Wait a minute. Is it going to be a reboot? Is it going to be a reboot?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Who is still as gorgeous and as talented as ever. And he was so happy that week.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. One of my favorite comments from someone on social media, it was a whole thread about the reboot. And this person said, nope, I don't want one. It already lives for me in a perfect space. I know who the characters are. I know in my mind what they're doing.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And if they did a reboot and it was different, and you know, you've heard people go like, why did they do it that way? Why did they take that character that way? Right now, it lives perfect. I'm saying nope. So you'll just have to do with this, I suppose.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
It ended quickly with a half season.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Well, that's our episode with the one and only Kim Fields. Thank you for coming here. We love you too. I love you too. And please come back. Oh, yeah, I'm back. I'm back.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
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ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Yeah, on the backs of their wings.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Let's just end the episode. See y'all next week. Reliving Single is hosted by Erica Alexander and me, Kim Coles. Reliving Single is a production of Heartbeat in association with Color Farm Media. Executive produced by Kevin Hart, Jeff Clannigan, Eric Eddings, Leslie Guam, Erica Alexander, and Ben Arnon. This show is produced by Kim Coles. Amber Watson is our senior producer.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Our associate producer is Kenny Jackson. Our video editor is Shannon Joy Rogers. Our sound engineers are Eric Hicks and Cedric Wilson. Production supervision by Razak Boykin. Additional production support from Alex Atkins and Z Taylor. And a special thanks to Dr. EJ Johnson.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
But what I love about this is that, so we know that Regine is a hunter and she wants a man. I see what you did there.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Good for you. Right? But what's important to note is that we set her up as being, you know, she wants a man and she wants this life, but she's still discerning. He's still got to be interesting.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I love that you decided, yes, he's an attorney, he's handsome, he's all these things, but he's boring. Right. And so, like, enough of this. And there's some things that money couldn't buy for her.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I understand. And for our younger people who may not understand, that means, I don't know y'all. I'm just trying to figure y'all out.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Yes. I didn't notice that it was... My mother is an AKA, and I didn't even notice the pink and the green. I didn't notice it, but I love that she infused that in.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And the vision. And the vision that the right one will come along. Right, right, right. Move along.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
How do you feel when people say that Regine was a gold digger?
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
I hope people get that, too, because you see women go, I have a vision for what I want. But you did do the work and you did have a groundedness, at least with your girlfriends, that we saw so that we saw that it wasn't just this lofty, I need all these things, these material things. There was a groundedness that came and came as the seasons went on, too.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
So let's just talk about this beautiful moment that we learned something about you and Kyle, like what you all have in common. Yes. And it's all in just, he doesn't say a word, but all that gesture and all of that, like, yeah, I know what you do. I know what we've got to do. I love that.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And that we, we get a new pairing, you know, this is six people, but they have to constantly put us together in different permutations. And that was the first time we see that permutation. It was really good. A combination.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
Do you remember? It wasn't scripted. She said it, but he just went there.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
And we've all seen cases of people pulling focus.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We've all had that experience. Like, stop, this is my moment.
ReLiving Single
The Rosetta Stone of Sitcoms featuring Kim Fields
We had a cheat code, if you will. We had the Rosetta Stone of sitcoms. Yeah. You know who we had? Who? A legend, ladies and gentlemen. A legend.