Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire there are many figure It’s a sideshow, and one of the most important ones isn’t actually in the film’s marketing.That’s Melody, by gossip Girl Sixteen-year-old Emily Alyn Lind quickly develops a friendship with Phoebe Spengler, played by McKenna Grace. Turning point? She is a ghost who is forced to remain on Earth until she can find a way to reunite with her family on the other side.
in the most recent hollywood reporter During the interview, Linde revealed that her ghostly state was even she She didn’t know until she landed the role. Director Gil Kenan never explicitly said anything like this, lines like “I got it,” in the conversation. I’m like a hundred years old,” she just thinks it means Melody is an old soul. As for why she’s keeping it a secret, she thinks it’s because her character is “another kind of ghost” in the series. Melody Rather than being purely chaotic or malevolent, Dee is “a ghost with a heart,” similar to Ghost Egan in Ghost Egan. Ghostbusters: Afterlife. “[She] There’s a whole human connection there, so I think there’s a part of them that really wants to catch people off guard in that sense. “
In the film, Melody is in trouble after her entire family is killed in a house fire that she personally feels responsible for. Her choices in the movie are all rooted in survivor’s guilt, and Lind says candidly that she’s glad her character saw the error of her ways: On one hand, ending up with the OG and the new Ghostbusters left her “so giddy.” “,” she loved sharing the stage with series veterans like Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts. But it also meant people wouldn’t leave the theater asking for her head, “like they hate in other movies.” It’s like I messed up the story. “
As for Melody and Phoebe’s friendship and all the subtext in the movie, Lind calls their dynamic a “connection of two souls.” While she admits that parts of it could be read as romance – and that Phoebe wants to have a close relationship with someone – the two characters “are still two kids in a lot of ways. It’s the same material, but And exist in its own way. […] Now they’re connected on this grand level on two different dimensional planes, and they’re just trying to figure out the world together. I love that we don’t define it as one thing or another. Sometimes when people do that, they ruin it. Too specific and too absolute, and yet they are so imperfect as characters. “
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Now playing in theaters.
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