I know he couldn’t answer Whoppie’s question about whether or not he wanted her to be a slave again in a flippant way, but IF HE COULD ... he should have said, “Whoppie, I’ve actually been chained up and beaten. HAVE YOU?”
Funny, that’s exactly what I said to someone else this morning. I was thinking: Whoopi, there is one person on this stage who knows, personally, what it is like to be confined, beaten, and controlled by others... and it isn’t you.