in an interview this week, Gaby recalled experiencing “a lot of paternal energy” on the set of the 1989 film.When asked about working with Kevin specifically, however, she had a succinct but telling response.
“I didn’t feel paternal energy from Kevin Costner,” the actor, now 42, said. “We’ll leave it at that.” The film follows Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who decides to build a professional baseball diamond on his property. Gaby Hoffmann was just seven years old when she played Karin Kinsella, the daughter of Kevin Costner's Ray Kinsella, in 1989's Field Of DreamsThough Ray’s neighbors assume he’s having a midlife crisis, his gamble has a supernatural payoff when the diamond begins to attract the ghosts of legendary baseball players, including “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, played in the film byAfter years as a successful child actor, Gaby took a hiatus from Hollywood in the early 2000s.
She can currently be seen opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the Netflix series Eric, released last week.. “I was convinced he was in love with me, too, which, of course, he wasn’t, but he was just such a sweetheart.”“I sort of jokingly said I had a big crush on him, but I think I was really drawn to a kind of fatherly, protective energy that he had in spades,” she continued. “What a beautiful actor he was, too.