Whoopi Goldberg Defends ‘Barbie’ Movie, Claps Back at Criticism

Whoopi Goldberg raised up her armor to defend the Barbie film on The View in opposition to harsh criticism from a number of conservatives.

“It’s a film!” Goldberg, 67, stated in the course of the Tuesday, July 25, episode of the talk show. “It’s a film a couple of doll!”

The View cohost fired again in opposition to each columnist Ben Shapiro and Senator Ted Cruz’s unfavorable takes on the 2023 launch. “I believed y’all can be completely happy,” Goldberg continued. “[Barbie] has no genitalia, so there’s no intercourse concerned. Ken has no genitalia, so he can’t — it’s a doll film! And the youngsters realize it’s colourful and it’s Barbie.”

Goldberg’s feedback had been in response to Shapiro, 39, calling Barbie “one of the vital woke motion pictures I’ve ever seen,” via Twitter on Friday, July 21. Shapiro teased that his overview for the “flaming rubbish heap of a movie” can be obtainable on his YouTube channel.

Cruz, in the meantime, claimed the film is “Chinese language communist propaganda during which the Chinese language are asserting sovereignty over everything of the South China Sea,” throughout an interview with The Daily Signal revealed on July 16.

The politician, 52, alleged that as a result of there’s a children’ drawing within the film of a “blockish factor that is named ‘Asia’ after which they’ve drawn what are known as the nine-dashes” it represents China’s territorial claims within the South China Sea.

Goldberg, for her half, challenged Shapiro and Cruz to try to clarify to their very own daughters why the doll-inspired movie is allegedly controversial.

“You guys, I need y’all to inform your daughters why you’re not taking them to the Barbie film,” she stated on Tuesday. “I need you to elucidate to them what’s fallacious with Barbie.”

The Sister Act star added that she is a fan of Barbie, a lot so, that she wore white boots with Barbie heads within the heel for the episode. “Now look, I really like my Barbie,” Goldberg defined, earlier than displaying off her footwear. “It’s a doll film, guys. I’m shocked that that’s what’s freaking you out as of late.”

Goldberg doubled down on her feedback, including, “It’s a film. That’s what we do. We make motion pictures about every kind of stuff. We make motion pictures about individuals who fly, we make motion pictures about dolls who discuss and stroll.”

She concluded: “They usually hit two issues: they discuss the true world that everyone lives in, and so they discuss Barbie world. They usually’re two various things. And it’s meant to make you simply suppose or pause, it’s not meant to do something however offer you a very good time. Go see the film!”

Barbie hit theaters on Friday and shattered field workplace predictions by the top of the weekend. The Greta Gerwig-directed movie earned $162 million in its first three days.

Margot Robbie, who performs Barbie, was assured the undertaking would resonate with audiences. In actual fact, she informed Collider earlier this month that she informed Mattel and Warner Bros. the film would “make a billion {dollars}” to get approval to supply the movie.

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“Studios have prospered a lot after they’re courageous sufficient to pair a giant concept with a visionary director,” Robbie, 33, stated within the interview revealed on Thursday, July 20. “After which I gave a sequence of examples like, ‘Dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg’ — just about naming something that’s been unimaginable and made a ton of cash for the studios over time. And I used to be like, ‘And now you’ve obtained Barbie and Greta Gerwig.”