Bette Midler Reveals the ONE Role She Regrets Leaving: ‘I Was Really Afraid of the Costume’
Bette Midler Reveals the ONE Role She Regrets Leaving: ‘I Was Really Afraid of the Costume’
Bette Midler has had a legendary career, but she’s not without her regrets. In fact, there’s one iconic role the Beaches star regrets leaving.
The 77-year-old Hocus Pocus star, who recently hit back at fans calling her transphobic, was offered a role in 1992’s Sister Act and turned it down.
“They came to me with Sister Act and I said, ‘My fans don’t want to see me in a coif,” the Rose actress said on the show. just for variety podcast.
‘Can you believe it? How off the wall is that? How crazy is that? Jeffrey Katzenberg called me every day: “Please, please.” I stood my ground because I was really scared of the costume. Isn’t it amazing? Can I wear anything but a nun’s habit?
The role ultimately went to Whoopi Goldberg.
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“Whoopi wore it all the way to the bench,” Midler added. So God bless her. And she was perfect for it.
And there was one more role she turned down that she still thinks about: Misery.
I just couldn’t. It was too violent,” she said. “The character wasn’t that funny, so he lacked any redeeming qualities. She cut off his foot. Come on. Who does that?
Midler is being honored with the Distinguished Contributor Award at the Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills on February 27 and spoke about her career with Variety ahead of the event.
The First Wives Club actress would also like to star in a current TV show: White Lotus.
He would accept a role in the HBO series, ‘In a New York minute’.
“It’s a big farce,” he explained. “Mike White makes fun of the worst people, the rich people with real rights who behave badly. Everyone likes to see them get what they deserve.
I really enjoy that. It is the great saga of the haves and the have-nots, which is eternal. I tend to see things that are, I don’t want to say hopeful, but I like to laugh. I love to laugh, but there is not enough laughter. So I really look for things that make me laugh.’
And while she’s had a distinguished career spanning more than six decades, there’s one public role she’d never want to take on: being a politician.
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“I’m not smart enough,” the Ruthless People actress said. “And the difference between me and the people currently in office is that I’m smart enough to know that I’m not smart enough to be in government, to legislate.”
‘Some of these people, you have no idea why in God’s name they got into politics. They are so dumb and so stupid. And they really don’t give a shit about their constituents. They are mostly there to steal cash. I really believe that. I never thought that way when I was a kid.
‘Oh my gosh, this country. Oh my gosh, my country is yours, I loved it so much,” she continued. ‘But I tell you lately, it makes absolutely no sense that we are being ruled by people who have no clue. I’m sorry. That’s all. I have nothing else to say.’
And the divine Mrs. M admitted that the last movie she cried over was one of her most popular: Beaches.
“I show it once a week,” he joked. “No, I’m kidding,” she admitted.
Seriously, Midler admitted: ‘I cried at one book, The School for Good Mothers. I just cried like a baby. I hadn’t cried over a book like that in a long, long time.
And since biopics are such a hot commodity in Hollywood these days, the podcast host asked if we’d ever get a Bette Midler biopic.
‘My daughter [actor Sophie Von Haselberg] and I are two peas in a pod, so if she wants, she can have it. But I don’t think that’s what she’s looking for.
Hocus Pocus: The 77-year-old actress recently appeared in Hocus Pocus 2