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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ – The Original Cast Explains What It Was Like to Put the Iconic Suits Back On [Video]
Jason Reitman‘s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is finally getting ready to haunt theaters on November 19, 2021, and the main cast from the original two movies is back for this one.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts are all coming back for this sequel to the original classic, reprising their iconic and beloved roles.
On “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Murray, Aykroyd and Hudson reunited last night, relaying what it was like to put the Proton Packs back on over 30 years later.
Murray jokes, “It hurt. There was a lot of pain. For some reason these directors like to say, ‘Alright, now you guys are all down on the ground,’ with this thing on our back. And now you’ve gotta roll over, like a dead bug, and try to get up while wearing a vacuum cleaner. But it was… you had shockwaves of memory from it, and you went, ‘oh god, this is horrible.'”
The beloved actor continues, “It was very long days, and it was a very heavy thing. It’s not as heavy as the original was, but we’re weaker. So it’s about the same.”
Ernie Hudson, on the other hand, had a much more emotional experience on set.
Hudson explains, “I never thought we would [be back]. Until I got there and I realized it’s actually happening. But I will say, when I got in the suit, and Bill and Dan and Sigourney…
“It was almost spiritual, man. I was almost in tears. It was great.”
During the chat, Murray also offered up a humorous take on the film’s tone, which has been played up in the marketing to be far more emotional than it is, well, funny.
“Everyone that has seen it has said that they cry at the movie, so it should be an extremely successful comedy,” Murray jokes.
You can watch the full interview from “The Tonight Show” below.
In this year’s Ghostbusters film, written by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan…
“When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.”
Afterlife‘s cast includes Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace and Paul Rudd.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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