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Until recently, an octopus was not the most obvious choice to co-star with Sally Field . Looking at her career thus far, one might immediately think of her alongside Julia Roberts and Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias , or those Oscar-winning turns opposite Beau Bridges in Norma Rae and with John Malkovich, Danny Glover and Ed Harris in Places in the Heart . But lately, the buzz surrounding Field is all about her Emmy-nominated role sharing the screen with a cephalopod in the Netflix film Remarkably Bright Creatures .

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