Whoopi Goldberg Recalls How Patrick Swayze Convinced Her to Make ‘Ghost’

Whoopi Goldberg is recalling at how Patrick Swayze convinced her to handle her Oscar-winning function in 1990’s Ghost.

The starlet informed writer Dave Karger in his brand-new publication 50 Oscar Nights, using Individuals publication, that she required a little encouraging prior to she determined to play psychic Oda Mae Brown in the Jerry Zucker-directed movie.

“I get a phone call from my agent, Ron Meyer, who says, ‘Patrick Swayze has been hired for this movie. Patrick is not going to do this if you don’t do it. Can you make some time for him and the director to come up?’” Goldberg remembered.

The EGOT victor included,“So they [Zucker and Swayze] flew in, I meet Patrick, and out of the blue, we’re old friends. … About 40 minutes go by and Patrick says, ‘Please do this [movie] with me.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, okay.’ And that’s how it happened.”

In Ghost, Goldberg plays Oda Mae Brown, an unwilling psychic that aids a boy, Sam Wheat (Swayze), interact with his sweetheart (Demi Moore) after he is killed.

The Sight co-host additionally confessed that they really did not expect how effective the flick would certainly be. “I said yes, not really knowing what it was going to be,” she claimed.“It wasn’t until we all saw the film that we realized what we had.”

When it comes to dealing with Swayze, that passed away in 2009, Goldberg claimed, “He was sexy and sweet and just a terrific human being to me.”

Goldberg won the Academy Honor for finest sustaining starlet in 1991, making her the 2nd Black starlet to take home the honor because group, greater than half a century after Hattie McDaniel’s historical win for Chosen the Wind in 1940. Goldberg formerly racked up an Oscar nom for The Shade Purple in 1986.

The Sis Act starlet additionally formerly informed Naomi Campbell in 2020 that Swayze was the one that convinced manufacturers that she was the excellent individual for the function in Ghost.

She kept in mind asking her representative why she really did not have to tryout for the component, to which he informed her,“They don’t want you. They think that your persona, that Whoopi, is too big and will take people out of the movie.”

However she claimed Swayze had actually been desiring to deal with her for time, including,“I’d never met him, but he was a fan.”

50 Oscar Nights strikes shelfs on Jan. 23.