
She added: “And then I got the Oscar for it. “So he said, ‘If you’re not going to hire her, I am not going to be in this film’.” After Sam is killed during a mugging, he is left hanging around his old.
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But the movie studio wanted someone else. Goldberg later won an Oscar for the role. “And he said, ‘Do you want to do the movie?’ I said, ‘If we can have some fun, yeah!’ Hugely popular supernatural love story starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Patrick Swayzes role in Ghost is so iconic, it is hard to imagine anyone else playing Sam Wheat in the 1990 classic. Patrick Swayze (right) had to convince producers to consider casting Whoopi Goldberg in 'Ghost,' according to his widow Lisa Niemi. Patrick Swayze plays a ghost who teams up with a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to uncover the truth behind his murder - and to rescue his sweetheart (Demi Moore) from a similar fate. Ghost will surprise you, delight you, make you believe. Thank you for coming on the show!! #Legend ? /nro3ZuiYHM Ghost is a supernatural mystery-thriller that will cross over into your heart and never leave. Whoopi said: “So day comes and I go and he (Patrick) says, ‘Why don’t you want to do this movie?’ And I said, ‘Wait, aren’t you Patrick Swayze?’ And he says, ‘Yes’, and I said, ‘What makes you think I don’t want to do the movie? I’d love to do the movie, they said they didn’t want me’. She said the casting directors had told her agent they were not interested in her, but Swayze persuaded her to go to the set. He said, ‘No, no I’m not committing to this until I talk to her to see if she wants to do this movie’.”

She told ITV’s Loose Women: “(Patrick) got hired to do Ghost and asked them, ‘Why hasn’t Whoopi Goldberg? Have you talked to her?’ Whoopi Goldberg reveals how she got her Oscar-winning role in Ghost (ITV) Whoopi Goldberg alongside Patrick Swayze in Ghost (Image: GETTY) Her role was as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who helps slain businessman Sam Wheat (performed by Mr Swayze) communicate with his. The Hollywood star, 61, won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in the fantasy thriller, which also starred Demi Moore. Whoopi Goldberg has revealed she was only cast in the 1990 film Ghost because Patrick Swayze said he would not appear in it unless she did. 30 Timeless Secrets About Ghost That Will Lift Your Spirits In 1990, a genre-defying romance starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg took this world (and maybe the next one, too.
