Patti LuPone got teary-eyed while discussing the impending presidential election with the ladies of The View. The Agatha All Along star, who joined the Hot Topics table this morning to promote her Marvel show and her Broadway play The Roommate, couldn’t avoid a little politics talk with Election Day inching closer and closer.
Joy Behar kicked off the questions by checking in on who LuPone is feeling ahead of Nov. 5.
“How about the anxiety levels? The presidential election, what’s going on in your head?” Behar asked.
Ana Navarro, who was seated next to LuPone, joked, “Let’s hold hands!” as the theater legend quipped, “Exactly,” and gripped the hand of Sunny Hostin, too, who was seated on her other side.
LuPone explained, “I’m working with Mia Farrow [on The Roommate], so there’s, you know, a lot of anxiety backstage, and we will be working on election night.”
Behar then joked, “What, is she making you crazy or what?” to which LuPone exclaimed, “No!” with a big laugh.
“Are you kidding? I adore her,” LuPone said, noting, “We both share the same political view, and every night we sort of try to remember that we are doing a show, and not discuss anything so that we can serve the audience and not our own anxiety. But it is, highly— I could cry.”
LuPone then put a hand to her face and stopped herself as she appeared to get a bit misty-eyed.
Navarro then chimed in, “Don’t cry, vote!” and as the audience applauded, she urged LuPone, “Get on the phone, make calls.”
When Hostin asked LuPone if she’s feeling “hopeful” about Kamala Harris‘ chances at the polls, the actress confessed that she tends to be “a half-empty girl.”
“For my entire life, I’ve been a glass half-empty, so I don’t want to put anything out there that’s going to make me feel worse, you know what I mean?” she said.
Behar noted that LuPone’s take was “so Italian, so Sicilian,” as LuPone treated us to her own impression of a “melancholy baby.”
The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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