Whoopi Goldberg is pushing back on the conservative criticism of Elliot Page's casting in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
The View moderator had a blunt response to critics who have an issue with Page, a trans man, portraying the Greek soldier Sinon during the Tuesday, July 21, episode of the ABC talk show.
Pointing out that many of the people who have a problem with Page's casting condemned the film as a whole before it even premiered, Goldberg said, "A lot of conservatives who see this are going to feel the same way. That’s OK. But I don’t understand … why go see the movie?"
"If you don’t wanna see it, then don’t go see it," the EGOT winner continued. "Why do you care who’s cast in it? I don’t understand this idea that if we hate it, everybody must hate it."
She went on, “You don’t like Elliot Page? Don’t go see the damn movie. Don’t do it. We will be OK if you don’t go see it," adding that "movies are not real" and that she didn't understand why people "have to poop on everything [they] don't get."
Goldberg's The View conservative co-host, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, agreed with the take. “It is a masterpiece. It is a phenomenal film,” she said. “There’s actually a real conservative message … it’s about devotion to family, it’s about faith, it’s about upholding institutions, it’s about how war is dangerous and has repercussions for all of us."
"The fact that conservatives can’t take the win and just be like, ‘Oh no, this is a really excellent film with a good message for families,’ I’ll never understand that," she continued, at which point co-host Joy Behar chimed in, "They're stuck on woke."
"There’s nothing woke in this film," Griffin responded.
Nolan previously addressed pre-release criticism of his new epic, which also stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Lupita Nyong’o, in an interview with The Telegraph earlier this month, calling it "irrelevant" to him.
"But look, these conversations that happen before people see the film–they’re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet," the director told the outlet, adding, "All I can do is make the best film I possibly can in the most sincere way. It’s very different from how anyone else would do it, but that’s what adaptation is."
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