Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson said that the famous movie Ghostbusters, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, himself, Mr. Hudson, and Rick Moranis, did nothing for his career. “Before the movie I had to audition; I still have to audition…”
Hudson also said that, at that point, no opportunities came to him that anyone would consider career-defining, leading to the kind of Oscar that Forest Witaker earned for his role as Idi Amin in The Last King Of Scotland.
He said this to this blogger at Wonder Con San Francisco in 2007. Here’s the Ernie Hudson video interview:
What’s interesting is that Ghostbusters did give him a level of fame that should cause him to reconsider that remark. According to Google Trends, every point where a search was done for him is related to Ghostbusters. See:
This year, in June, Ernie talked about Ghostbusters III:
Stay tuned.
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