The host of “The View” thinks the outrage over the drag show during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, which many say is the so-called Last Supper, is overblown.
In an episode of the daytime talk show that aired on July 29, women dug into how many – including former “View” co-host Candace Cameron Bure – took to social media to express their displeasure with the drag-centric part of the opening ceremony. .
“Like, come on everybody — it’s the Olympics! Stop it!” Whoopi Goldberg, 68, said. “He’s not trying to do anything but talk about history. They share your history.”
Instead of taking “20 hours to write an email,” the Oscar winner suggested that people who “don’t like” the vignette should just “watch something else.”
“Just turn off the TV!” Goldberg exclaimed. “Look at the rest! Put down the newspaper, don’t look at the picture, it’s a choice. This is our choice. You have the ability.”
“Forget what your Instagram says,” she continued. “If you don’t like it, go to another one! You don’t have to stay! You have the power to make change.
Co-host Sara Haines, 46, shared Goldberg’s sentiments and also drew attention to comments made by Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony, to the AP about moments of drag shows and environmental controversies, where he shared them. want not “to be subversive, or to mock or shock,” but “to send a message of love, a message of inclusion and not to divide.”
Haines, who often talks about his faith, said, “I became frustrated with religion. Don’t take the literal letter of the Bible, follow the example of the word – that is to live by grace, live by forgiveness.”
He added that he was “so tired of being hit with religious messages when someone is walking around not living like Jesus.”
Ana Navarro, 52, later revealed that the Last Supper drag segment was “a small part” of the nearly four-hour show.
“It’s something that happens a lot in America, I guess, and I would say, it happens every four years,” Navarro said. “There are young people who train all their lives, so that they can represent our country. Can we focus on them?”
Obviously, “The View” alum Candace Cameron Bure can’t.
In a video posted to her Instagram story on Sunday, July 28, the former right-wing Hallmark Channel actress, 48, condemned the “disgusting” performance that “completely insults and mock(ed) the Christian faith.”
“It made me very sad, and someone said, ‘You shouldn’t be sad. You should be angry about this,'” she told her followers. “I was like, ‘Trust me, this makes me angry, but I’m more sad because I’m sad for the souls,'” she added.
Like many on social media, Bure felt that the drag performance referred to Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting from the late 15th century depicting his interpretation of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.
However, since the opening ceremony, Jolly has announced that the real inspiration for the drag tableau is not da Vinci’s Last Supper but a 17th-century painting titled “The Feast of the Gods” by Dutch artist Jan van Bijlert, which depicts the Greek gods. Olympus crowded around the long table.
In an interview with French news outlet BFM-TV on Sunday, July 28, Jolly explained, “The idea is to create a pagan celebration connected to the gods of Olympus.”
Bure, however, remains unmoved by his anger, saying he “doesn’t understand how that has anything to do with uniting the world through competitive sports that kids can watch.”
“I’m not buying it,” he insisted.