Video: Kate McKinnon's Ridiculous GHOSTBUSTERS Outtakes
In my controversially positive review of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, I described actress Kate McKinnon as "a movie star waiting to happen, a delightfully zany presence whose facial expressions and darting eyes are almost as funny as her dialogue." While some people didn't dig her off-the-wall performance as Holtzmann, I thought she brought the movie a nice spark of weirdness that served it well.
Now /Film points us to a video of her outtakes from the film, and at nine minutes long, it's pretty rough to watch the entire thing — even for someone like me who thinks she's hilarious and one of the best parts of Saturday Night Live. There are some flashes of humor in there, of course, but it's clear that she's just basically throwing everything at the wall in the hope that something sticks.
We see videos like this pop up sometimes, but they're rarely this long and rarely contain the sheer amount of alternate jokes seen here, so more than anything else, this video sort of hammered home for me the idea that as an actor in an improv-heavy comedy, you're not just getting paid for what ends up on screen, you're getting paid for having the endurance to grind through day after day of endless jokes in the hopes of finding the ones that work.