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Why Whoopi Goldberg Will Be Missing From ‘The View’ for ‘A While’: Joy Behar Explains Cohost’s Hiatus

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She’ll be back. Whoopi Goldberg will be absent from ABC’s The View for an extended period of time, but Joy Behar assured viewers that it’s only a temporary leave of absence.“If you’re wondering where Whoopi is, the girl’s got a movie she’s making and she will be back when she finishes whatever she’s doing,” Behar, 79, told viewers on the Monday, April 11, episode. “So she’s gone for a while.”The project is an Amazon Prime Video TV series called Anansi Boys.

Based on Neil Gaiman‘s fantasy novel, the show follows Charlie Nancy (Malachi Kirby) as he learns about his estranged father (Delroy Lindo), who turns out to be Anansi: Trickster God of stories.Goldberg, 66, plays one of the primary antagonists Bird Woman, God of Birds, Prime Video announced on Wednesday, April 7, and it was perfect casting for both the Sister Act star and the author, 61.“I have been a fan of this book for a very long time and when Neil Gaiman told me it was being brought to the screen, I did everything I could to be part of it to help make people aware of Anansi and all his magic,” Goldberg said in a statement.Gaiman, meanwhile, revealed that he’d pictured the EGOT winner when writing Anansi Boys. “I came up with the story for Anansi Boys in about 1996 and Whoopi was Bird Woman in my head then.

And now it’s happening in reality. Pinch me,” the Hugo Award winner tweeted after the news was released.In a statement via Prime Video, Gaiman elaborated, “I wasn’t able to meet her until 2018, when she interviewed me with some of the Good Omens team at New York Comic Con.

At which point she mentioned that she had just finished listening to Sir Lenny Henry’s reading of Anansi Boys, and that it was one of her favorite books.

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