“The View” host said that she was “lucky enough” to know both of the late actors in her lifetime.
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Whoopi Goldberg is looking back at her friendships with the late Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams.
During Thursday’s episode of The View, Goldberg and her cohosts sat down with Reeve’s three children — William, Matthew, and Alexandra — to discuss their father’s upcoming documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. The film, which soars into theaters on Sept. 21, features interviews with Reeve’s family, friends, and costars, including Goldberg.
“He directed Whoopi and Glenn Close in 1997’s In the Gloaming, one of his first projects after the accident about the AIDS crisis,” cohost Sunny Hostin explained. “Whoopi, what do you remember working with Chris?”
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Goldberg simply recalled being “shocked” that Reeve had called her to star in his directorial debut. “I was like ‘Are you sure?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, I want you.’ I was like, ‘Okay,’” she said. “He said, ‘Don’t you wanna know what it is?’ I said, ‘No. No. I don’t want to know. Whatever you want.’”
The made-for-television film, which also starred Robert Sean Leonard and Bridget Fonda, followed young Danny (Leonard) as he returns home to live out his final days with his family after being diagnosed with late-stage AIDS. There, he rekindles his relationship with his mother Janet (Close) and receives support from live-in nurse Myrna (Goldberg).
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Goldberg went on to state that she was “lucky enough” to have both Reeve and Williams in her life before they passed. Reeve died from heart failure at age 52 in October 2004, while Williams died at 63 in August 2014.
“To me, those two men were rocks. They were rocks for me,” she said. “I didn’t see them all the time, but they weren’t far from my soul because they taught us how to actually figure out how to move forward. And I had the greatest time. I was lucky.”
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