Along with Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown and Swayze as Sam Wheat, Ghost also starred Demi Moore as Molly, Sam’s widow.
In the classic movie, Goldberg memorably plays Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who must help a dead man save his living wife.
Revealing that she “got that job because of Patrick Swayze,” Whoopi Goldberg recalled how she was cast in the hit movie Ghost after she was initially rejected.
Though Goldberg didn’t know Swayze, she did go into the production knowing Moore, as she had been friends with her then-husband Bruce Willis for many years.