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

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

“It’s a movie!” Goldberg, 67, stated through the Tuesday, July 25, episode of the talk show. “It’s a movie about a doll!”

The View cohost fired again towards each columnist Ben Shapiro and Senator Ted Cruz’s destructive takes on the 2023 launch. “I thought y’all would be happy,” Goldberg continued. “[Barbie] has no genitalia, so there’s no sex involved. Ken has no genitalia, so he can’t — it’s a doll movie! And the kids know it’s colorful and it’s Barbie.”

Goldberg’s feedback had been in response to Shapiro, 39, calling Barbie “one of the most woke movies I have ever seen,” via Twitter on Friday, July 21. Shapiro teased that his overview for the “flaming garbage heap of a film” can be obtainable on his YouTube channel.

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

The politician, 52, alleged that as a result of there’s a youngsters’ drawing within the film of a “blockish thing that is called ‘Asia’ and then they’ve drawn what are called the nine-dashes” it represents China’s territorial claims within the South China Sea.

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

“You guys, I want y’all to tell your daughters why you’re not taking them to the Barbie movie,” she stated on Tuesday. “I want you to explain to them what’s wrong 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 love my Barbie,” Goldberg defined, earlier than exhibiting off her footwear. “It’s a doll movie, guys. I’m shocked that that’s what’s freaking you out these days.”

Goldberg doubled down on her feedback, including, “It’s a movie. That’s what we do. We make movies about all kinds of stuff. We make movies about people who fly, we make movies about dolls who talk and walk.”

She concluded: “And they hit two things: they talk about the real world that everybody lives in, and they talk about Barbie world. And they’re two different things. And it’s meant to make you just think or pause, it’s not meant to do anything but give you a good time. Go see the movie!”

Barbie hit theaters on Friday and shattered field workplace predictions by the tip 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 truth, 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 so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,” Robbie, 33, stated within the interview printed on Thursday, July 20. “And then I gave a series of examples like, ‘Dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg’ — pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years. And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.”