Michael J. Fox STUNS Whoopi Goldberg as he reveals he turned down role in her smash hit Ghost
Michael J Fox left Whoopi Goldberg thunderstruck this Thursday by revealing she turned down a role in her 1990 hit Ghost.
The movie starred Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore as a couple called Sam and Molly whose romance is torn apart when he gets killed as part of a criminal plot.
Sam lingers on Earth as a ghost and sets out to protect Molly from the miscreants with the help of a sham psychic played by Whoopi, who won an Oscar for the role.
During an appearance on The View this week, Michael, 61, who was born nearly a decade later than Patrick, dished that he was approached for the picture.
‘There was a chance to work with you that I missed,’ he told Whoopi, spilling that when the idea for Ghost was floated to him he said: ‘It’ll never work.’
Candor: Michael J. Fox left Whoopi Goldberg thunderstruck this Thursday by revealing she turned down a role in her 1990 movie Ghost
Whoops: ‘There was a chance to work with you that I missed,’ he told Whoopi, spilling that when the idea for Ghost was floated to him he said: ‘It’ll never work’
Michael, who became a major movie star in the 1980s, warmly added that Ghost ‘was great and huge – and I’m a f***ing idiot!’
During a wide-ranging interview that ran in Variety last week, Michael explained that dismissed the idea of being in Ghost because he “didn’t see how it would work.”
Defying his doubts, Ghost turned out to be a runaway smash and became the highest-grossing movie of a year that included Pretty Woman and Home Alone.