{"id":81162,"date":"2024-03-07T23:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/whoopi-goldberg-blasts-ageist-trolls-for-branding-anne-hathaways-latest-film-character-disgusting\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:06:24","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-blasts-ageist-trolls-for-branding-anne-hathaways-latest-film-character-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/whoopi-goldberg-blasts-ageist-trolls-for-branding-anne-hathaways-latest-film-character-disgusting\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg blasts ageist trolls for branding Anne Hathaway&apos;s latest film character &apos;disgusting&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-03-07\" datetime=\"1709852784\" pubdate=\"\">7 March 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Whoopi Goldberg has slammed critics for branding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/anne-hathaway\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,anne-hathaway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Hathaway<\/a>\u2019s character \u201cdisgusting\u201d for dating a younger man in her upcoming film \u2018The Idea of You\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Whoopi Goldberg has slammed critics for branding Anne Hathaway\u2019s character \u2018disgusting\u2019 for dating a younger man in her upcoming film \u2018The Idea of You\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Color Purple\u2019 actress, 68, hit out after a trailer for the film revealed Anne is playing a 41-year-old mom who dates a 29-year-old pop star (played by Nicholas Galitzine) in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Whoopi blasted on \u2018The View\u2019 about a backlash to the plot from trolls: \u201cApparently, the Internet is divided on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome call the age gap disgusting, while others say they\u2019re here for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whoopi stressed the plot of the \u2018The Idea of You\u2019 is \u201cnot new\u201d and listed a string of celebrities who have younger partners in real life.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: \u201cWhat is the problem?! If you don\u2019t wanna see the movie, don\u2019t see the movie! Stop (moaning) about it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWhoopi\u2019s co-hosts agreed with her, with Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines pointing out they are married to younger men.<\/p>\n<p>\nJoy, 81, who has been married Steve Janowitz, 79, since 2011, joked: \u201cI always have a younger guy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cMy husband is 7 years younger than me. He drives at night, he does the heavy lifting, he\u2019s sharp as a tack!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAlyssa Farah Griffin, 34, slammed trolls who called actress Anne a \u201ccougar\u201d, adding: \u201cI just refuse to accept that Anne Hathaway is capable of being a cougar, so I reject that outright, but it\u2019s also just such a double standard.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere are so many men who have dated women 20, 30 years younger, and no one bats an eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnne\u2019s upcoming film is based on the bestselling book by Robinne Lee and sees her character Sol\u00e8ne meet her future younger lover at Coachella before their relationship quickly heats up.<\/p>\n<p>\nSol\u00e8ne is seen in the trailer asking him what \u201cpeople will say\u201d about it, to which he responds: \u201cI don\u2019t care what they say.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/whoopi-goldberg-blasts-ageist-trolls-branding-anne-hathaways-latest-film-character-disgusting-1395833.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 March 2024 Whoopi Goldberg has slammed critics for branding Anne Hathaway\u2019s character \u201cdisgusting\u201d for dating a younger man in her upcoming film \u2018The Idea of You\u2019. Whoopi Goldberg has slammed critics for branding Anne Hathaway\u2019s character \u2018disgusting\u2019 for dating a younger man in her upcoming film \u2018The Idea of You\u2019 \u2018The Color Purple\u2019 actress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4534,587,886,3132,6867,5865,6866,5907,1173],"class_list":{"0":"post-81162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-alyssa-farah-griffin","9":"tag-anne-hathaway","10":"tag-joy-behar","11":"tag-nicholas-galitzine","12":"tag-robinne-lee","13":"tag-sara-haines","14":"tag-steve-janowitz","15":"tag-sunny-hostin","16":"tag-whoopi-goldberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}