Joy Behar reveals Whoopi Goldberg will be absent from 'The View as she films 'Anansi Boys'
Whoopi Goldberg is taking a hiatus from the show 'The View' in the coming days, according to co-panelist Joy Behar, due to filming responsibilities for a new acting assignment. Behar mentioned Goldberg's plans at the outset of the daytime talk show Monday, 11 April broadcast, which also featured former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin as a guest presenter alongside Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro.
Goldberg, 66, will star in the upcoming Amazon Studios film 'Anansi Boys', an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. She will play 'Bird Woman', one of the show's "main antagonists." “If you’re wondering where Whoopi is, the girl’s got a movie she’s making and she will be back when she finishes whatever she’s doing,” Behar stated on the show. “So she’s gone for a while.” Behar did not say how long Goldberg will be missing from the show.
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According to an ABC source, Goldberg will be filming her role over the next few weeks, which will include 'The View' hiatus during the week of April 18. Goldberg was spotted in an eatery in Scotland, where the series is now filming. "I have been a fan of this book for a very long time and when Neil Gaiman told me it was being brought to the screen, I did everything I could to be part of it to help make people aware of Anansi and all his magic," Goldberg talked about her stint to Variety.
According to Variety, Goldberg joined the cast of 'Anansi Boys', which is now filming in Scotland. She portrays the wicked Bird Woman, the terrifying God of the Birds out to avenge the eponymous Anansi.
Anansi Boys is based on the 2005 fantasy novel of the same name and follows Charlie Nancy (Malachi Kirby), who discovers that his late father (Delroy Lindo) was Anansi, the West African trickster deity of storytelling. The Sister Act star's absence from The View comes after she was suspended for two weeks in February for making "wrong and disrespectful statements" regarding the Holocaust on the show.
During a discussion of Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel on the Holocaust, Goldberg asserted that the "Holocaust isn't about race." She quickly apologized for the remark and gave the Anti-Defamation League a platform on the show, which has subsequently accepted her apologies.