Just For Variety podcast. "Can you believe that? How off the wall is that? How crazy is that? Jeffrey Katzenberg called me every day, 'Please, please.' I stood my ground because I really was afraid of the costume.
Isn't that amazing? I can wear anything but a nun's habit?"In the end, the iconic role went to Whoopi Goldberg, and "Sister Act" became a massive hit that also spawned sequels. "Whoopi wore [the outfit] all the way to the bank, so God bless her.
And she was perfect for it," Bette said. The "Beaches" actress also passed on starring in 1990's "Misery," but she has no regrets about deciding against doing the Rob Reiner-directed film. "I just couldn't.
It was too violent," she said. "The character was so not funny, so without any qualities of redemption. She cut off his foot.
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