Oscars 2025: Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act 3 Update...

Whoopi Goldberg is answering your prayers and giving an update on Sister Act 3.

More than four years after she first confirmed the film was in the works, the EGOT winner shared where the movie-making process stands following the death of costar Maggie Smith.

“I had hoped to get it done before Maggie passed, and we weren’t able to do that,” Whoopi told Zuri Hall during Live From E!: The Oscars on March 2 (see every star on the red carpet at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre here). “But they have the script now, so fingers are crossed.”

Both actresses appeared in the original 1992 movie Sister Act—in which Whoopi plays Vegas singer Deloris Van Cartier who hides out in a convent run by Maggie’s character Mother Superior and turns a struggling choir into a successful group performing beloved hits—as well as in the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.

While The View host originally announced in 2020 that a third Sister Act movie was being made, she noted they had to make some changes after the Downton Abbey star died at the age of 89 in September 2024.