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No way they’re making another!’ And I was wrrr-ooong.” I started hearing little rumors that it was going to be a ‘Ghostbusters’ film. “And it totally sounded like a Jason Reitman film: A single mom with her son and daughter moves to her estranged father’s old farmhouse after he passes away to discover their roots. “It was just ‘Untitled Jason Reitman project,'” she said.
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When Grace auditioned for “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” she had no idea what the movie was supposed to be. (Her first single, “Haunted House,” will play over the movie’s closing credits.) What’s even more striking, and impressive, is how much Grace still feels like a kid in a business that too often curdles child actors into cynical miniature adults.ĭirector Jason Reitman (right) with Mckenna Grace in the new Ecto-1 jumpseat on the set of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” Courtesy of Kimberley French/Sony Pictures Should it prove successful, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” will make Grace the star of a major movie franchise before she’s earned her driver’s license. At the same time, she is very much a kid in the most delightful way, in the way that kids make the best artists, because they are so curious, naturally, and so filled with wonder.” “And so there is a level of professionalism just by virtue of how much experience she has. “She’s quite accomplished as an actor already,” said Carrie Coon, who plays Phoebe’s mother, Callie. “I just kind of put myself in a totally different mindset, and then they’d yell cut, and I’d go, ‘Oh my god! I just shot a ghost!‘”īy way of illustration, Crystal pulled out her phone to show off a video she took during production of her daughter playing the determined and self-possessed Phoebe during the film’s dramatic climax and then, when Reitman called cut, instantly bursting into an irrepressibly giddy smile. “It was actually really hard to stay so stoic and focused because of how excited I was to be in the same vicinity as Ecto-1 and Ivan and Jason,” Grace said, radiating the kind of unaffected, earnest joy only a young teenager can muster. In one standout sequence, Phoebe winds up brandishing a proton pack and strapped to a jump seat on the iconic Ghostbusters car, Ecto-1, as her brother, Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), careens it through a small, Oklahoma town in pursuit of a troublesome phantom. But as a lifelong “Ghostbusters” fan - she saw the first film when she was 3 - Grace takes quiet, confident command of not just the role, but the entire film, which director Jason Reitman has refashioned from the adult urban comedy his father Ivan directed in 1984 into an Amblin-style Midwestern kidventure. She plays Phoebe, who looks and sounds like a kid version of her dead grandfather, Ghostbuster Egon Spengler (as originally played by the late Harold Ramis). In “ Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which opens on Friday, Grace finally has an opportunity to upend that persona. From left, Mckenna Grace in “I, Tonya,” “Captain Marvel,” and “Malignant.” Courtesy of Neon Marvel Studios and Warner Bros.