Ernie Hudson has indicated that he would be willing to star in the next Ghostbusters movie, so long as he isn’t an “add-on.”
As reported by IndieWire, Hudson recently appeared on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Wrap-Up Show to talk about his career, particularly his experience in the Ghostbusters franchise. In doing so, he revealed that he has some reservations about appearing in another installment.
“We’re negotiating a new movie that’s gearing up to start shooting in March, and I’m like, ‘Guys, there’s a place… I’m not an add-on,'” he said. “So if I’m going to do it, it has to make sense.”
Hudson starred in the original 1984 supernatural comedy opposite Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Dan Aykroyd. He reflected on joining the cast as Winston Zeddemore and the warm welcome he received from his fellow Ghostbusters and “brilliant” director Ivan Reitman.
“I was the guy who was brought in, and so finding my place in the middle of that — and they were all welcoming and inclusive,” Hudson said of the cast but noted that “the studio wasn’t, and the studio continued not to be. So it made it very, very difficult.”
Hudson said he felt “very selectively” pushed aside by the studio and that there were changes to the script after he joined the cast. He also pointed out that he wasn’t featured on the original movie poster when that came out or alternative versions of the one-sheet that came later.
“The original script, Winston was in the very beginning of the movie,” Hudson recalled. “By the time we got ready to shoot the movie, Winston came in halfway through the movie.
“When the posters came out, I’m not on the poster,” he added. “I went to the 30th-anniversary release of the movie, and all the posters are three guys. Now I know the fans see it differently, and I’m so thankful for the fans because the fans basically identified with Winston, especially young – I don’t want to say minority kids – but a lot of kids.”
Hudson admitted that making Ghostbusters wasn’t an easy road for him. He said a lot of the decisions made at the time “definitely felt deliberate” and that it still remains “the most difficult movie” of his career, especially when looking at it from a “psychological perspective.”
“I’m still not trying to take it personally,” he admitted. “Anything bad, if you’re African American in this country, anything bad happens to you, you can always blame it on, ‘because I’m Black.’ You don’t want to go there. That’s the last thing I want to do.”
He concluded, “I got nothing bad to say about anybody but it was hard. It took me 10 years to get past that and enjoy the movie and just embrace the movie. Ghostbusters was really hard to make peace with.”
Hudson most recently reprised his role as Zeddemore for writer-director Jason Reitman in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Not much is known about its upcoming sequel, other than it will continue the adventures of the Spengler family. The film is slated to open in theaters this December.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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