Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is encountering more bizarre beings in his latest movie, the much-anticipated Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and the actor has revealed all on what the absolute highlight of working on the movie was.
A sequel to the 1984 classic Ghostbusters and its 1989 follow-up Ghostbusters II, Afterlife follows single mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and her two children, Trevor (Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), as they move to a small town in Oklahoma and discover their connection to original ghostbuster Egon Spengler.
Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Wolfhard shared that his most memorable days on set saw him taking part in some epic stunt driving, which he compared to "riding a Disneyland ride".
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"I'd say the sequence in the car in the trailer," the actor said of his favourite filming memory. "I was in the car and it's what's called a pod car, that has a stunt driver... it was a real wheat field that, like, they planted a year before so that we could just rip through it.
"The stunt driver's incredible – he sat on the roof basically, it almost looks like a dune buggy, but just the top half of it, and his steering wheel and gas pedal are somehow connected to the car.
"So really what I'm doing in the car is I'm trying to match where he's steering, it's almost like riding a Disneyland ride... The first day we go off and we're going so fast, like very, very fast, like real fast. And they lose signal, like they lose the picture right when it starts.
"They're at video village and it loses [signal] and everyone's like, 'What was going on.' And then it gets in range and starts flickering in and out and you start to hear me scream and the image comes on and it's the shot from the trailer – banging [on the roof] thing. And everyone in the house was so, like, excited. It was, like, truly amazing."
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Wolfhard wasn't the only star of the movie with treasured memories from filming either, as several of his co-stars also opened up about their own highlights.
Phoebe star Grace revealed that the "emotional" final sequence of the film was her favourite, saying: "Every scene is so – I feel like, not action-packed, but like everything has to do with something that is always – something's always happening.
"But I mean then again, I feel like the entire last sequence, which I can't even say what goes on, is so crazy. The entire last sequence was probably my favourite. It was really emotional."
Logan Kim, who plays Phoebe's classmate Podcast, shared: "I got to be covered in Marshmallow, which was not really Marshmallow, it was like shaving cream that they put on.
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"It was very uncomfortable makeup, but very much worth it. It looks so good on screen and that's, like, the most fun part of the film for me."
As for Celeste O'Connor, who plays Trevor's classmate Lucky, they relished the opportunity to get physical with some stunt work.
"At the end, I got to do some of my own stunts and that was really, really fun," they said. "It was the first time that I had been physical in that way in a project and so it was cool to get to do some wire work."
Ghostbusters: Afterlife will be released in cinemas on November 18.
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