While appearing on The Howard Stern Show, Ernie Hudson opened up about the mental impact Ghostbusters had on him, as well as the studio behind the film. Hudson recalled how, “I was the guy who was brought in, and so finding my place in the middle of that — and they were all welcoming and inclusive, The studio wasn’t, and the studio continued not to be. So it made it very, very difficult because I was a part of it, but then I very selectively was pushed aside.”
Hudson even gave an example of the studio’s lack of support saying, “It took a long time. I went to the 30th-anniversary release of the movie and all the posters are three guys, Now I know the fans see it differently, and I’m so thankful for the fans because the fans basically identified with Winston, especially young, I don’t want to say minority kids, but a lot of kids.”
He continued to discuss the possibility of appearing in the next Ghostbusters film stating, “If I’m going to do it, it has to make sense, When you start out in the business, I was always told it’s almost impossible to succeed. But if you get in a major movie from a major studio and it comes out and it opens number one, it will change your career. Well, Ghostbusters didn’t do any of that for me. I was working pretty nonstop, I did Ghostbusters, and it was two and a half years before I got another movie. It wasn’t an easy road. Ghostbusters, I would say, was probably the most difficult movie I ever did just from the psychological perspective, All those things…It definitely felt deliberate. And I’m still not trying to take it personally.”
He ended on the subject adding, “Anything bad, if you’re African American in this country, anything bad happens to you, you can always blame it on because I’m Black. You don’t want to go there. That’s the last thing I want to do…I got nothing bad to say about anybody, but it was hard. It took me 10 years to get past that and enjoy the movie and just embrace the movie. Ghostbusters was really hard to make peace with it.”
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