The View producers use subtle trick to encourage feud between Whoopi Goldberg and co-hosts, body language expert reveals
PRODUCERS on The View use a subtle trick to encourage feuds between Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts, according to one body-language expert.
Patti Wood pointed specifically to one recent battle on the daytime talk show between Whoopi and guest co-host Tara Setmayer when exclusively speaking to The Sun about the secret trick.
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Whoopi Goldberg went head-to-head with a guest co-hostCredit: ABC
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The heated debate arose over the topic of gun reformCredit: ABC
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A body language expert broke down Whoopi’s motions during the segmentCredit: ABC
Wood first acknowledged Whoopi’s high-volume yelling as she talked with Setmayer about gun reform.
“Whoopi continued yelling at an even higher volume level as she talked about the bullets from the gun ‘eliminating’ a child while using broad, sharp, weapon-like gestures such as chopping up and down gestures towards Tara,” Wood said.
“Tara was sliced and diced and shot out throughout this discussion.”
But Wood says what happens next is interesting because of where Whoopi and Tara are seated.
“Whoopi and Tara are [placed in] what is called ‘oppositional’ seating far across the table from one another in a way that encourages their battle-like interactions,” she said.
“They have been arguing for a while and now Joy [Behar], who is at the power seat at the center of the table, looks back-and-forth between the two of them trying to get them to calm down and calm down the discourse in general.”
“She talks much slower and at a much lower volume.
“She actually does a gesture of calming down – putting our hands out palms down and gesturing downward.
“You also see the cohost in the white dress [Sunny Hostin] try to pull away from Whoopie’s side of the table and lean into Tara and make a lips pressed together, suppressed look of anger to Whoopi.
“Then again, Joy, at the center of the table, tries to gain attention and stop the sharp, barbed conversation between the others.
“And when she can’t calm it down you see Joy tapping her pencil downward as if she wants to punch the others down, and rearranging her notecards in frustration trying to symbolically create order in the disordered discourse.
Wood added: “I have seen her do those very movements before when the conversation at the table gets out of hand.”
“They don’t work.”
Wood also commented to The Sun on Whoopi’s feelings towards her co-hosts, based on the same May 31 episode of the show.
Wood explained: “In part, she became quite justifiably angry concerning the topic of a mass shooting.
“She bared her front teeth like a hungry lion while yelling and continued to show her front teeth while pointing her finger as her hand was a gun.”
According to Wood, part of Whoopi’s anger was towards the situation of mass shootings and another part was frustration.
Whoopi appeared “angry that Tara wasn’t showing what she felt was enough rage about the lack of governmental action to end made shootings,” Wood explained.
