Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has a number of characters it’s juggling, and one of the vital necessary wasn’t even truly within the movie’s advertising and marketing. That might be Melody, performed by Gossip Woman’s Emily Alyn Lind, a 16-year-old who shortly strikes up a friendship with McKenna Grace’s Phoebe Spengler. The twist? She’s a ghost compelled to remain on Earth till she finds a strategy to reunite along with her household on the opposite facet.
In a current Hollywood Reporter interview, Lind revealed that her ghost standing was one thing even she didn’t learn about till she’d locked down the position. Director Gil Kenan by no means explicitly stated as such throughout their talks, and contours like “I get it. I’m like 100 years previous,” she simply assumed that translated to Melody being an previous soul. As for why it was stored secret, she reasoned it got here from her character being “a unique form of ghost” for the sequence. As an alternative of being purely chaotic or malevolent, Melody’s “a ghost with a coronary heart,” much like Ghost Egon in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. “[She] has a full human relationship, so I feel that there was part of them that actually needed to catch individuals off guard in that sense.”
Within the movie, Melody’s caught in limbo after her household died in a home fireplace she personally feels chargeable for. Her selections within the movie all stem from that survivor’s guilt, and Lind was frannk in saying she’s glad her character noticed the error of her methods: for one factor, attending to group with the OG and new Ghostbusters on the finish had her “so giddy,” and he or she beloved sharing the display screen with sequence veterans like Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts. But it surely additionally meant of us wouldn’t go away the theater calling for her head, “similar to they’ve hated me in different movies for fucking the story up.”
As for Melody and Phoebe’s friendship and all of the subtext within the film, Lind known as their dynamic one in all “two souls connecting.” Whereas she acknowledged components of it may be learn as romantic—and that Phoebe needed a closeness with somebody—each characters are “nonetheless two children in a number of methods. They’re minimize from the identical fabric and ousiders in their very own methods. […] And now they’re connecting on this grandiose degree in two completely different dimensional planes, and so they’re simply attempting to determine this world collectively. I like that we didn’t outline it as one factor or one other. Typically, when individuals try this, it ruins it. It’s too concrete and absolute, and so they’re so not absolute as characters.”
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is now enjoying in theaters.
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