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Whoopi Goldberg shared that Sister Act 3 is having to set the publication to relationship for histrion Maggie Smith’s decease aft she played Reverend Mother successful the archetypal 2 films.
By Rachel McRady Nov 08, 2024 4:36 PMTags
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The Sister Act formed is having to recongregate aft the nonaccomplishment of their Reverend Mother.
As Sister Act 3 remains successful the works, prima Whoopi Goldberg, who plays singer-turned-nun Deloris successful the deed franchise, shared that the upcoming movie has had to rework its crippled successful the aftermath of Dame Maggie Smith's death.
“We’re having to marque immoderate readjustments due to the fact that we conscionable mislaid Maggie Smith,” Goldberg told Jimmy Fallon connected the Nov. 6 occurrence of The Tonight Show. “We volition get it done. They’ll get it done. It conscionable is simply a shift.”
The British icon, who died successful September astatine the property of 89, played Mother Superior successful the 1992 archetypal Sister Act and the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back successful the Habit.
Goldberg and shaper Tyler Perry person been hard astatine enactment trying to get the Sister Act sequel successful the works aft years of starts and stops. Disney greenlit the task successful December 2020, noting that Goldberg was returning to prima and produce.
Since then, however, details of the movie person mostly been kept quiescent isolated from the information that it is happening.
"I tin accidental it's coming," Goldberg told Entertainment Tonight successful May. "It's coming astir the upland erstwhile it comes. It'll beryllium present soon. I'm excited. It's clip for it, you know, it's time."
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Although that clip has taken its toll connected Perry, who expressed vexation earlier this year.
"I'm a small annoyed with however agelong this has taken me. It's taking truthful long, similar I've done 4 movies since we started talking astir this," he told Entertainment Tonight in February. "When I'm extracurricular producing with—you know, Disney's a huge, fantastic company, but I truly privation to get this movie and Whoopi truly wants to get this movie."
As for who whitethorn articulation Goldberg arsenic she’s backmost successful the wont for a 3rd time? The View moderator named Keke Palmer, Lizzo, and Nicki Minaj as being her told picks to beryllium newcomers successful the franchise back successful 2022.
And upon proceeding the quality Palmer gushed implicit the company.
"I'm loving it,” she told E! News shortly aft Goldberg named her imagination cast. “First of all, I emotion Lizzo, and I emotion Nicki. So, if me, Lizzo and Nicki are in Sister Act 3, I'm successful the theaters. Okay? I'm successful the theaters and I'm showing up to enactment connected clip due to the fact that that sounds similar a amusive cast."
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