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Whoopi Goldberg has revealed she has put a clause in her will that prevents unauthorized movies being made about her life.
During a discussion on The View, the co-hosts began talking about the ethics surrounding Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, which was inspired by the real life of Marilyn Monroe.
While some criticized the film for its fictitious retelling of the movie star’s life without including any trigger warnings for its gratuitous content, the conversation quickly turned to the comedian.
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Sunny Hostin said before the panel: “It sounds macabre, but I was speaking to Whoopi, and I was saying you know, she’s such a famous person, when she passes away, people are going to make films.”
But before Hostin could finish her sentence, a seemingly agitated Goldberg interjected: “Actually, they’re not going to make films because, in my will, it says, 'unless you speak to my family, 'try it! Ok? Try It!'”
Goldberg’s remarks come after the Blonde director addressed backlash of the film.
While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Dominik said US audiences hated the film the most, as many only want to see the legend celebrated on screen.
He told the outlet: “Now we’re living in a time where it’s important to present women as empowered, and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman. That’s what they want to see.
“And if you’re not showing them that, it upsets them.”
The director also admitted that the commentary accusing the film of tainting Monroe’s legacy is ‘strange’.
He explained: “What they really mean is that the film exploited their memory of her, their image of her, which is fair enough. But that’s the whole idea of the movie.
"It’s trying to take the iconography of her life and put it into service of something else, it’s trying to take things that you’re familiar with, and turning the meaning inside out. But that’s what they don’t want to see.”
Dominik added that Hollywood movies were becoming ‘more conservative’ and he did not want to tell ‘bedtime stories’.
Recently, Quentin Tarantino echoed a similar sentiment while speaking with NME.
The director said the worst era for cinemas was the '50s and '80s, only to be matched with today.
But despite the mediocre films pouring out, the filmmaker believes it’s highlighted ‘the [films] that don’t conform, the ones that stand out from the pack’.
