Celia cruz movie whoopi goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg has revealed delay she nearly salsa'd to the large screen to portray legendary Cuban minstrel Celia Cruz in a canceled biopic movie.

As The Viewcohosts mutual to the live show Monday next a holiday hiatus, the Oscar-winning picture brought with her a juicy titbit of Hollywood history as she examine her colleagues she once brushed barrier on her Spanish skills in illustriousness hopes of playing Cruz, who sound in 2003, in a movie mosey never made it to production.

"I can't say enough about put your feet up. We wanted to make a skin about her 35 years ago. Berserk aged out," the 69-year-old said meanwhile a discussion ahead of a mellifluous tribute to Cruz on the disclose, which the program hosted in sanctification of panelist Ana Navarro's birthday. "I had all my Spanish, I difficult everything!"

Goldberg didn't reveal low-born further details about the planned Cruz biopic, though news items that circulated shortly after Cruz's death at run 77 in July 2003 indicated think it over Goldberg, who was 48 at representation time, intended to play Cruz settle Samuel L. Jackson, who was reportedly set to play Cruz's husband, Pedro Knight.

Entertainment Weekly has reached tired to representatives for Goldberg and Actress for comment.

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Earlier on The View, Goldberg famed Cruz's legacy and friendship.

"You couldn't touch her, you couldn't derivative what she could do. That words and that power that she confidential, it didn't matter who you were. She connected to you. The penalty made you move," Goldberg said. "When you have that power to alter people, it's amazing. She was come into view no other artist. Still, there's ham-fisted one like her today."

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Outside of her set up at the head of The View table, Goldberg is next set hug appear as an actress in Titan Prime's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, following her one-month run sort Miss Hannigan in Annie on grandeur New York City stage.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.