Kristen Wiig Talks Fan Reaction to Ghostbusters Reboot
When it was announced that Paul Feig was rebooting Ghostbusters, many fans were up in arms about the fact that it was going to feature an all-female main cast. It’s a silly gripe, given how talented the lead actresses are, but fans wouldn’t be fans if they weren’t bitching about something.
In an interview with Los Angeles Times, star Kristen Wiig opened up about the angry reactions, revealing that she was very disappointed by the internet outcry.
“The fact there was so much controversy because we were women was surprising to me,” said Wiig. “Some people said some really not nice things about the fact that there were women. It didn’t make me mad; it just really bummed me out. We’re really honoring those movies.”
By all accounts, Feig and company indeed are honoring the original classic. So why not put those pitchforks down until we see the movie for ourselves, shall we?
In the Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters, Melissa McCarthy is Abby Yates, Kristen Wiig is Erin Gilbert, Leslie Jones is Patty Tolan, and Kate McKinnon is Jillian Holtzmann. Chris Hemsworth co-stars, and also making appearances will be Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts.
Wiig and McCarthy play a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. Flash-forward a few years and Wiig lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia U. Which is pretty sweet, until her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Wiig reunites with McCarthy and the other two proton pack-packing phantom wranglers, and she gets some sweet revenge when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.
The Ghostbusters reboot will haunt the big screen on July 15, 2016.
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