Whoopi Goldberg Is Writing a Movie About an Older Black Female Superhero

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Variety for a wide-reaching profile piece to celebrate 30 years since she won her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the supernatural love story Ghost.During the interview, she talked about some of her upcoming projects including a superhero movie she’s writing about “an older Black woman who acquires new powers and has to learn to use them”.“Since I was a little kid, I’ve been obsessed with superheroes,” Goldberg said. “They’re all saving the earth all the time.

Gallery: Oscars Hosts Throughout The Years (And How They Were Ranked) (ELLE (UK))The actress and writer used her own experience of sexual assault to tell the story of Arabella, who rebuilds her life after she is assaulted in London, in the acclaimed comedy-drama. And Michaela recalled arriving in Los Angeles to meet executives to pitch I May Destroy You to them and being so jet-lagged that she ended up falling asleep in a truck outside the offices.

In a typical Oscar week, Essence's Black Women in Hollywood Awards is a star-studded, tears-and-laughter packed, invitation-only luncheon celebrating the industry's Black female talent. This year, Essence’s 14th time hosting the event, called for a more pandemic friendly, virtual approach, albeit one that still packed plenty of emotion.

Gallery: Hey, I'm talking to you! The most memorable moments of the SAG Awards (BANG Showbiz)Michaela also believes those she pitched to probably thought she was "unstable" because she didn't present them with a treatment or pilot for the show. She shared: "When I look back at that meeting, I think the executives deemed me unstable.

Whoopi Goldberg wants in on the superhero trend.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterOscar Nunez has been cast in “The Lost City of D,” a romantic action adventure that stars Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.It’s currently unknown who Nunez will play in the Paramount Pictures film, which centers on a romance novelist (Bullock), who gets stuck on a book tour with her cover model (Tatum).

Angelique Jackson As the 2021 Oscars prepare to go hostless for the third year in a row, Whoopi Goldberg shares what it takes to emcee the biggest night in movies.The 1991 best supporting actress Oscar winner has also hosted the Academy Awards four times, making history as the first (and still only) Black woman to emcee the broadcast solo in 1994 and hosting again in 1996, 1999 and 2002.“I had a great time,” Goldberg tells Variety of her experiences hosting the show.

Whoopi Goldberg is pulling up her own chair to the realm of superhero films. The 65-year-old actress and often outspoken co-host of "The View" revealed to Variety that she is actively underway penning a script for an original superhero film centered on an older Black woman who acquires superhuman powers but has to teach herself how to control and use them.

Whoopi Goldberg is looking back on her Oscar win in 1990.

It’s been nearly 30 years since Whoopi Goldberg donned a nun’s habit for 1992’s blockbuster comedy Sister Act, where her lounge singer character Deloris Van Cartier was put into a convent for witness protection after her mobster boyfriend commits murder in front of her. But she’s getting ready for the third installment for Disney Plus after years of an idea for the movie being kicked around in development.

Actress and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg is on the new cover of Variety, and in the issue she looks back on her Oscars acceptance speech for “Ghost” 30 years later.

Whoopi Goldberg officially became an Oscar winner, the entertainer is reliving the moment over Zoom.Watching a clip from the 1991 Academy Awards telecast from her home in New Jersey, Goldberg breaks into a big smile as Denzel Washington opens the envelope and declares her the best supporting actress for her performance as psychic Oda Mae Brown in “Ghost.”Listening intently, Goldberg takes in her earnest acceptance speech — which, though she’s been asked to recall the experience over the years,

Whoopi Goldberg, Katy Perry, Chris Evans and Shonda Rhimes were among the famous names who reacted to the news Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three charges in the murder of George Floyd."Guilty Guilty Guilty... No one wins," tweeted The View's Whoopi, "George Floyd is still gone..and finally someone was responsible...

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