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Whoopi Goldberg truly had rich friendships as she expressed her bond with Christopher Reeves and Robin Williams during the latest episode of The View. While talking about her friendship with them, she said, “They were rocks to me.”
On the episode aired on Thursday, September 19, the co-hosts of the talk show welcomed Reeves‘ children Matthew, Alexandra, and William to discuss his upcoming documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeves Story.
The Hostin mentioned that the late star directed Goldberg and Glenn Close in a 1997 project titled In the Gloaming, which was one of his initial ventures after his accident. She asked Goldberg if she recalled working with him.
Reflecting on her experience, the Sister Act star shared about being “shocked” when he gave her a call. She asked him if he was sure about that, and he responded, “Yeah, I want you.” After which she said, “Okay.” He then asked her, “Don’t you wanna know what it is?” to which Goldberg answered, “I don’t want to know. Whatever you want.”
The movie was made for television, and it talked about an individual named Danny who was diagnosed with AIDS. It also starred Bridget Fonda and Robert Sean Leonard.
While talking about her friendship with Reeves and Williams, she expressed, “I was lucky enough to have Robin and Christopher in my life, yeah, and so to me, those two men were rocks. They were rocks for me.”
Goldberg said that she did not see them all the time, but they were never away from her “soul” because they taught them how to “figure out” and move ahead. Goldberg mentioned that she “had the greatest time. I was lucky.”
After nine years of spinal cord injury that left him in a wheelchair, he died of heart failure at age 52, in 2004. Williams passed away because of suicide at 63 years old in 2014.
The upcoming documentary about Reeves has interviews with Goldberg, Jeff Daniels, Susan Sarandon, and Close, who, in the documentary shared about feeling that if Reeves was alive, Williams would be still around as well.
It also consists of conversations with Reeves’s friends and family and also the archival clip of Williams and Revees’s late wife Dana, who died of lung cancer in 2006.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeves Story will be released in select theaters on September 21 and on September 25, which would have been his 72nd birthday, it will have an encore presentation.
Disclaimer: If you know someone who is having suicidal thoughts, anxiety, going through depression, or is suffering from a serious mental illness, reach out to a nearby doctor, mental health expert, or an NGO for immediate help. There are several helplines available for the same.
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Alia Bhatt welcomed her first child, daughter Raha, in 2022. She has offered a peek into her pregnancy and parenting journey many times in the past. Recently, Alia revealed some of the most precious moments of her motherhood phase. She shared that her husband Ranbir Kapoor said, ‘Okay, that’s great,’ when she told him about Raha’s first kick. Regarding what her daughter said first between mumma and papa, Alia disclosed that it was the former.
In a recent interview with Allure Magazine, Alia Bhatt shared that she felt her daughter Raha’s first kick when she was in Portugal for the shoot of her movie Heart of Stone. She said that she was in bed watching something when she felt a flutter in her stomach. Alia mentioned that she was confused and was waiting for the feeling to occur again. She expressed that the baby doesn’t kick when you want it but at unexpected moments.
Alia further stated that she didn’t get any sleep that night because of her excitement. She recalled calling her husband, Ranbir Kapoor, who was sleeping back in Mumbai. Alia shared, “I got really excited, and I called my husband up immediately, and he was asleep. He answered in his sleep, and he was like, ‘What happened?’ I was like, ‘No, no, just you know, baby kicked.’ And he was like, ‘Okay, that’s great.’”
During the same conversation, Alia Bhatt revealed that there was a fight at their home about what Raha would say first, Mumma or Papa. The Gangubai Kathiawadi star shared that Raha said mumma first, and it happened at a moment when they were alone during her playtime. Alia stated that she immediately pulled out her phone and asked her daughter to say the word again.
Alia talked about having video proof of the special moment, saying, “But then she fully said it, like mumma. Of course we take great joy and pride in that moment. I have it on video, so if anybody needs proof, she said mumma first.”
The actress also reminisced about the day Raha was born and when she first heard her daughter’s sound. Describing her emotions in that particular instance, Alia expressed, “When I heard her voice, I felt like I had met God or something.”
She added, “The minute she was put onto me, I just felt, like an immediate, a dam of love sort of burst open in our life, and it just felt safe, and it felt like my purpose had been met sort of a thing.” Alia concluded by saying that she would never forget that day.
On September 16, 2024, Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor were spotted with their little munchkin Raha departing from the Mumbai airport. Neetu Kapoor also accompanied the trio. They are in Paris, where Alia will be making her Paris Fashion Week debut this month.
Regarding Alia’s work front, she is gearing up for the release of her action thriller Jigra on October 11. The film is set to entertain the audience during the festive occasion of Dussehra. She has also been engrossed in the shooting of her spy movie Alpha with Sharvari. Alia will soon kick off Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Love & War, in which she will share the screen with Ranbir as well as Vicky Kaushal.
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