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Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson on the new sequel, pay disparities, and the ‘disappointing’ 2016 reboot: ‘Just make another movie’

After returning as Winston Zeddemore in the new sci-fi-comedy sequel ‘Frozen Empire’, Hudson speaks to Louis Chilton about finding an ally in Bill Murray, and why it’s ‘not quite as simple’ as blaming racism for his character being marginalised

Today, he’s seated for a round of interviews, to speak about the latest sequel – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which sees his character, Winston Zeddemore, return as a philanthropist masterminding a new generation of paranormal pest-removers. In the scheme of things, Ghostbusters makes up just a small part of Hudson’s career; he’s been working steadily for nearly all his adult life, in projects such as the Brandon Lee thriller The Crow, HBO’s gritty prison drama Oz, and FBI comedy Miss Congeniality. Frozen Empire picks up more or less where that film ends, with ghostbusting duties having been passed down to the daughter of Ramis’s Egon Spengler, played by Carrie Coon, and her family (husband Paul Rudd, and two teenage children – McKenna Grace and Stranger Things ’ Finn Wolfhard).

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