It's fun to be a Ghostbuster. Fighting ghosts, riding a revamped hearse, having a hot and adorable secretary – all that we can see in the trailer for the Ghostbusters remake, and all that the new team – Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Kristen Wiig – gets to experience in the film.
However, it's not all fun and games for the new cast filming the movie, and the hardest part is what looks most fun in the movie – the slime.
The new Ghostbusters features the green goop in various forms.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the cast and crew of the Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) movie talks about making the goop and how it feels like getting slimed.
Production designer Jefferson Sage (Spy) explained how complicated it really is making the substance. He said:
I had no idea how complicated it would be. The special effects guy would mix up batches and play with it. Then he would make videos dumping slime on the ground, squirting it out of a hose. We needed to know what it does when it hits something. Does it splatter? Does it stick? What happens to it when it drips down a wall?
Clearly, the green goop is just chaos, and the first time Jones, McCarthy, McKinnon, and Wiig experienced being slimed, it was a complete mess.
During the interview, the quartet shared how they felt:
Melissa McCarthy: You can't move once it's sprayed because it's so slippery that [the crew] had to put towels down so you could walk. But as you try to wash it off, it regenerates. So the more you try to wash it off, the slippier it becomes.
Leslie Jones: It's terrible. So awful. It multiplies. It's like that slime stuff they used to sell in a little jar.
McCarthy: But it has a viscosity as you touch it, like the hair goop from the ‘80s.
Kristen Wiig: With a little bit of mucus.
McCarthy: And a whisper of vomit.
Kate McKinnon: It's like if you have dry mouth and you buy that fake saliva.
Jones: Ewww. There's fake saliva?
McKinnon: Oh, yeah. You can buy spit. You can get anything nowadays.
The movie has been getting quite the negative buzz over the past couple of weeks. Paul Feig has responded to that, and even Sony's Marketing President had a word or two in defense of the backlash.
I for one don't think it's THAT bad. Considering Feig's work on Bridesmaids and Sage on Spy, which both starred McCarthy, I think it's highly likely this film will be pretty funny and actually entertaining.
It could have just been the misrepresentation of the movie in the first trailer, which really started all that negative response. Even Melissa McCarthy has admitted how she was "very confused" with the whole "remake" and "reboot" definition of the film.
That said, the marketing team behind the movie did make a second trailer to appease all that negative response, and it was definitely an improvement.
We'll find out whether the movie deserves all that backlash when Ghostbustershits theaters on July 15.
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