Kevin Hart verdedigt nieuwe Ghostbusters

Acteur Kevin Hart heeft het onlangs opgenomen voor de nieuwe Ghostbusters film van Paul Feig. Het project kreeg namelijk op voorhand al een hoop kritiek, met name omdat de hoofdrollen ingevuld waren door vrouwen (Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones).

Ondanks dat de critici niet eens zo negatief waren deed de film het matig aan de boxoffice. Collega komedieacteur Kevin Hart heeft het nu opgenomen voor de dames:

“I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a good movie review, to be honest with you, If I actually read a good review, I would go, ‘What?! Are you talking about me?’ It doesn’t matter. A critic’s job is to critique. But the flack they were trying to give these women in Ghostbusters, it was just so ridiculous. People take remakes as if you’re trying to destroy what’s been done — you’re living in the day and age whereevery movie’s been done! There’s no such thing as a unique idea right now, unless you go to f—ing Jupiter or Mars. Every cop movie, every detective movie, every buddy movie, every female buddy movie, every male buddy movie, every dinosaur movie, every space movie, anything with aliens, we’ve done it.”

 “Look, it’s impossible not to get to this place where you’re trying to make things new and unique to your generation, so I applaud those women for going and doing it, and they were funny. Those women were funny. Melissa McCarthy is a great friend of mine, and so is Leslie Jones. And not only has Leslie been in the business of comedy for years, but the first opportunity she has in a big role, people try to destroy her character — the sea of negative flack that came with it, it was ridiculous… They didn’t go back and punch Dan Aykroyd in the face! I just applaud them all because I’m a fan of comedy. And I think every single woman that was cast in that movie did an amazing job.”  

“So that’s just my little bit of positivity right there. I know that you guys [EW] deal with with movies a lot, and I just wanted to give a shoutout — especially to my girl Leslie. You worked hard to get here, you’re gonna get here, and then there’s another stop after this. Don’t let that s— get to you. Just keep winning. Keep working hard, keep breaking down the barriers.”

Aldus de acteur en komiek die dit jaar nog in Central Intelligence was te zien. Onlangs had hoofdrolspeelster Melissa McCarthy zelf ook al fel gereageerd op de critici. Lees hier ook de recensie van Erik Jansen en bekijk hieronder video van Sandro Algra: