Whoopi Goldberg once tried to get a movie made in which she and Goldie Hawn would play sisters.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Goldberg And Hawn Tried To Play Sisters
The two Oscar-winners revealed this while Hawn was appearing on The View on Monday morning to promote her new children’s book, The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose, which hits stores today.
The sisterly movie that they tried to get made at one point came up when Goldberg’s makeup rubbed off on Hawn’s face.
“I’m all over your face, and you’re all over my glasses,” quipped Goldberg, 70. The camera then cut to show Hawn, 80, who did indeed have a streak of the Goldberg’s makeup on her cheek.
Hawn responded by saying that the makeup exchange was appropriate because, “people used to call me Whoopi!”
“People used to call me Goldie, and she’d sign ‘Whoopi’ on autographs,” Goldberg recalled.
“I swear, it was so crazy. And then we thought we’d make a movie together and you’d be my sister, and we’d be sisters!” Hawn remembered of the Hollywood project that never came to be.
“Why cant’ we get that movie?” asked co-host Ana Navarro.
“Because we’re out of control, anyway!” Goldberg exclaimed with a smile.
Goldberg and Hawn did not elaborate any further on this unsuccessful Hollywood project. Indeed, they offered no explanation about how they’d realistically play siblings in a movie. One can’t help but understand why this project never actually got off the ground.
Hawn Gushes Over Kate Hudson
During. this same interview, Hawn gushed over her daughter Kate Hudson’s recent Oscar nomination for her 2025 movie Song Sung Blue. Though she ultimately lost the Best Actress Oscar to Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Hawn still could not be more proud of her daughter’s nomination.
“Could you ever believe that you would have that baby come out in your arms and somebody told you right then, ‘Oh, well, she’ll be nominated for an Academy Award,’ when she was just a few days old?” Hawn said. “I’m so happy. And if she had won, then we would be the only mother and daughter ever who actually won the Academy Award.”
Hawn won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1969 comedy Cactus Flower. She was later nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her work in the 1980 comedy Private Benjamin, which she both produced and starred in.
“I was pregnant with Kate, actually, and I thought, ‘Well, that would be a good idea…’ And I said, ‘We should produce this’ because I was with Warner Bros. at the time,” Hawn recalled on The View. “So I said, ‘Why don’t we produce this movie?’ And we did, and the movie turned out to be exactly what it was. Life is funny. You don’t know. Sometimes you just walk into the timing, right? And that’s what it felt like. The timing was right.”
Watch Hawn talk more about this in the video below.
Hollywood really is one crazy place. So crazy, in fact, that Goldberg and Hawn tried to play sisters in a movie. In the end, this serves as a reminder that you never know what to expect from Hollywood. Anything can happen in the wacky world of Hollywood!