‘The View’ star Joy Behar slams Nicolas Cage and ‘Moonstruck’ over Italian representation

Although she did not do it return The table of hot subjects in frustration, The view Cohost Joy Behar has always rocked the table after revealing his reflections on the 1987 classic Dreamer With Cher and Nicolas Cage.

During a broader discussion on the recent admission of cage according to which he was previously out of actress Sarah Jessica Parker, but did not hear about her after meeting her mother, Behar posed the theory that Parker may have challenged the work of cage in the romantic comedy that follows dear that she has already agreed to marry.

“What didn’t they like him? Besides his performance Dreamer? “Behar joked at the table, before the moderator Whoopi Goldberg cut to say to him:” I thought that his performance Dreamer was great. “”

Behar replied: “I am not saying that it was not the case, but that could have been something that irritated them.”

The cohosts laughed nervously before Aalyssa Farah Griffin asks: “Now we just drag Nicolas Cage?”

The actress then clarified her position on the film, which succeeded $ 122 million at the box office and winning three Oscars – including one for the category of the best actress.

“Well, I’m Italian,” said Behar to his colleagues. “I never thought that this film represented the Italians so well.”

Goldberg then turned to his panelist colleague and asked: “When did you go back the last time you saw a film that represented anyone as it was supposed to be represented?”

Without missing a beat, Behar is joking, “Godfather II. It was this one. I just looked at him the other day! “”

Behar has long talked about his Italian heritage via his public platforms, even once, admitting that she received her real name, Joséphine, after her parents were inspired by her “far-fetched” Italian grandmother who has already threatened to kill her own children.

After an emblematic visit April 2023 in his homeland, Behar returned to the table of hot subjects to tell her cohosts that she had called an Italian woman a “slut” on a passenger train after the lady did not let her use first class toilets.

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“I said it in English because she would not let me pee in the first class living room. I said:” Please let me go! “” Remember Behar at the time. “I said,” Listen, don’t be a slut. “She wouldn’t let me go.”

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