Politiek-incorrecte TV-serie van start
Oscar winnares Whoopi Goldberg heeft al eerder laten weten dat ze lak heeft aan de commentaren van anti’s op haar rookgedrag. Op het Amerikaanse NBC start aanstaande dinsdag de serie “Whoopi” al meteen goed met een sigarettenmop:
A hotel guest admonishes Goldberg that “second-hand smoke kills,” to which she retorts, “So do I, baby, walk on!”
Whoopi’s vriendelijke gezicht wordt in de VS steeds meer het symbool van de mensen die zat hebben van de puriteinse politieke correctheid.
Whoopi Goldberg’s new NBC sitcom features an Iranian immigrant unhinged by terror alerts, a conservative black lawyer with a hip-hop-talking white girlfriend and jokes about President Bush mispronouncing “nuclear.”
So far, NBC hasn’t blinked.
In fact, says the Oscar-winning actress, executives at the General Electric-owned television network think she could even be “a little riskier.”
“They’re fearless about what it is we’re trying to do. We haven’t heard from anyone saying, ‘No, you can’t do this’,” she said.
That also goes for some of the more unsavory aspects of the character she plays on “Whoopi” — Mavis Raye, a tart-tongued, menopausal former singer turned hotelier in New York City who smokes like a chimney and drinks on the job.
