Will Jay Seeing Ghosts Affect His Relationship with Sam?
PERRI NEMIROFF: Utkarsh, I’m dying to ask you about this.
REBECCA WISOCKY: It floored every single one of us.
When a cash-strapped couple inherits a crumbling country estate, they soon discover it is inhabited by an eclectic group of spirits, leading to comedic encounters as they navigate cohabitation with their supernatural roommates.
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR: Yeah, it was cool.
What was your reaction when you found out he was going to see ghosts?
AMBUDKAR: I was excited!
If Reebok can watch me for a couple more seconds, I’m excited.
We worktogether, but not in scenes together, if that makes sense.
I’m really excited.
It has to serve him and his journey well.
So, is there anything about him seeing ghosts that you think will build him as a character?
You know what I mean?
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RICHIE MORIARTY: I don’t.
[Laughs]
AMBUDKAR: I don’t know.
I think maybe, no.
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WISOCKY: You think he’s not going to learn or change or grow at all?
MORIARTY: Maybe it will give you a stronger connection to Sam.
AMBUDKAR: It would maybe make Sam appreciate [him].
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MORIARTY: Or just make her more sympathetic to you, having to see it through your eyes.
AMBUDKAR: Treat me with a little bit more respect.
AMBUDKAR: It would be really cool.
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Also, I don’t know what Thorfinn looks like.
It would be really cool for Jay to be like, “Oh, this is what they mean.
Wow, you really do smell like wolf piss.”
That would be really cool.
Is Pete’s New Power Causing Tension in Season 4?
Can you each tease something about them in Season 4 that will help them change and grow?
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REBECCA WISOCKY: I think that’s the premise of the entire series.
That’s the framework of the entire show, whether or not we do that successfully.
Richie has the best scream in all of show business.
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WISOCKY: That’s a very good point.
MORIARTY: Hes becoming cocky, which the other ghosts are not a big fan of.
AMBUDKAR: Its becoming your identity.
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That has to be so much fun to play.
AMBUDKAR: It’s like the guy in your friend group who gets a motorcycle.
MORIARTY: And he wont shut up about the motorcycle.
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[Laughs]
AMBUDKAR: It’s like, “I got the leather jacket.
I had to get the pants.”
MORIARTY: “Oh, sorry, I didn’t even realize my helmet was still on.”
AMBUDKAR: It’s that for sure.
MORIARTY: Do you think Sass and Pete might find love with each other?
WISOCKY: I hope so.
ZARAGOZA: I think Sas and Pete are going tomake out.
MORIARTY: Fans are screaming for it.
ZARAGOZA: They are!
They said that he hits a midlife crisis, or rather, a mid-afterlife crisis.
What does having a mid-afterlife crisis mean to him?
What is he struggling with most?
ZARAGOZA: I think he’s coming to grips with the fact that he hasn’t been living.
Even in his death, he wasn’t even living.
AMBUDKAR: He’s been too scared to after-live.
WISOCKY: I hope you don’t lose your snark, though, because you do it so well.
ZARAGOZA: Oh, no.
He ain’t losin' that.
AMBUDKAR: It’s been hundreds of years.
WISOCKY: And hes the youngest and most beautiful amongst us, goddamn him.
But he is also the very oldest ghost, which I think is just so wonderful.
MORIARTY: I’ll tease somethingin Episode 2 of the season, Sass has the funniest line involving Pete.
It is so funny, and I can’t wait.
ZARAGOZA: We havent shot it yet, and Richies putting so much weight on it.
MORIARTY: You cant screw it up, it is made for you.
It is so funny.
ZARAGOZA: I know.
This character is criminally underutilized on ‘Ghosts’ and deserves more stories particularly tailored to their strengths.
MORIARTY: Youll definitely know.
Its a great line.
The writers are killing it.
ZARAGOZA: They gave me a gift.
We know that she’s going to help Sam launch the B&B.
WISOCKY: Yeah, that was news to me today, so that’s exciting.
I love working with Rose [McIver].
I love that dynamic.
So that’s certainly problematic in terms of being a successful manager, inmyopinion.
I think she has a really wonderful business mind.
She’s just rather unscrupulous with how she goes about business.
She tries too hard to keep everyone happy, which ultimately makes her miserable.
And I thinkHetty has been really helpful in getting her to find her own strength in that way.
WISOCKY: I think you’re right.
ABUDKAR: The problem is Hetty doesn’t know math because she wasn’t allowed to learn.
WISOCKY: Exactly, there are all these ridiculous things.
She never learned math.
Basically, she’s just bossy.
She’s good at being bossy.
MORIARTY: We’re either going to see him visit his family or hear about him visiting.
I don’t know what’s going to happen.
I thinkhe needs to see the little girl who shot him and killed him.
Because this kid made a terrible mistake and murdered a man.
WISOCKY: In the “Dumb Deaths” episode, we met one of the other campers.
MORIARTY: Who waspresent, but not the one that shot me.
So, I think that would probably be a painful but interesting relationship to explore.
ZARAGOZA: Hear me out, I have a pitch.
ABDUKAR: And help her.
MORIARTY: Oh, and have a full conversation with her about it.
ZARAGOZA: Yeah, and she’s been holding onto it since she was a child.
ABUDKAR: And then she lets the guilt go and gets sucked off!
That was a really good pitch!
But she’s actually extremely funny.
- And the timing and the musicality of it?
Rose and Sheila both.
I’m insanely proud of the two of them for the work they’ve done so far.
I just know how difficult it is and am endlessly impressed by them.
AMBUDKAR: Yeah, Devans got a small baby, too, but that’s not nearly as impressive.
MORIARTY: It’s so hard to be a parent, period.
ZARAGOZA: But not for Devan.
MORIARTY: But we both know that it’s way harder to be a woman having a baby.
ZARAGOZA: Yeah, it’s a miraculous thing.
WISOCKY: We were saying this to them just the other day.
They are absolutely killing it and never complaining.
ZARAGOZA: I want to give Rebecca her flowers.
Then the way that it read on screen was just absolutely gut-wrenching and beautiful.
You just did so well, and you were still laughing at the end of the episode.
I love that episode.
And a big shoutout to Sheila because I think that’s one of my favorite moments in that episode.
That’s her episode, as well, when she returns after being gone for so long.
I robbed a bank once."
It just made me want to cry.
She’s so her, and we’ve missed her so deeply.
To have her back and just be so right on the money.
She had a great flashback where we realized that she was a law student.
I want to see more of her character.
Asher [Grodman] just won so many awards for a short film.
He won at Cannes.
His legs look great.
Devan and Sheila, their love story is so special.
And then effortlessly is just so hilarious is Brandon [Scott Jones].
MORIARTY: He’s a genius.
WISOCKY:Brandon is kind of our North Star.
In the first couple of episodes of the season, he is possibly the funniest he has ever been.
He’s our North Star.
Season 4 ofGhostsis slated to premiere on CBS on October 17th.
Meanwhile, the first three seasons are available to stream now on Paramount+ in the U.S.
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