Ernie Hudson Says He Was ‘Pushed Aside’ in ‘Ghostbusters’ Marketing: ‘It Took Me 10 Years to Get Past That’

Ernie Hudson knows who he’s going to call when it comes to how he was treated in the “Ghostbusters” franchise.Hudson, who starred alongside Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, and Harold Ramis in the classic sci-fi film, revealed during “The Howard Stern Show” that the studio was not “inclusive” of his character, Winston Zeddemore, in marketing materials.“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,” Hudson recalled of joining the cast.

“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.”“Ghostbusters” was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, with Ivan Reitman directing.“Ivan was really, really a brilliant man and I have just so much love and appreciation for him,

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