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Kate McKinnon’s ‘The Magic School Bus Rides Again’ Gets A Premiere Date

Though Kate McKinnon’s film career is taking off thanks to her work in Ghostbusters and Rough Night, she’s best known as one of the regular players on Saturday Night Live.

McKinnon has shown, whether it’s channeling Justin Bieber or a woman who claims she was abducted by aliens, that she’s adept at voice work and impressions.

Thus her role in the animated The Magic School Bus Rides Again is a natural fit. Here she’ll voice the beloved character of Ms. Frizzle.

McKinnon is also voicing three characters in the animated flick Leap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMpmYXi94Jo

Meet The Real-Life Gay Ghostbusters

Ghosts are gay.

Some ghosts, anyway. Queer activist and veteran ghost-hunter Shane McClelland wants the world to know that not all ghosts are heterosexual. He does this by exclusively hunting down ghosts that he believes are lesbian, gay or bisexual.

He founded the Columbus, Ohio coalition called the Stonewall Columbus Queer Ghost-Hunting Club for that express purpose.

Over the past year, the gay ghostbusters have tracked down spirits in lesbian convents, in mansions, in insane asylums and in prisons. To document their success, they started a web show called Queer Ghost Hunters.

So how do they find these queer ghosts? It’s not always easy, given that the majority of queer history has gone unrecorded – lesbian, gay and bisexual people frequently had to hide their sexuality in order to avoid prison or execution. That’s part of what makes McClelland’s job so important.

Queer Ghost Hunters co-producer Joe Applebaum says, “This is a whole other way to show the history of the LGBT community. In this case, we describe it as the lost history. These are the lost true stories of countless lost lives, lost in the afterlife because they couldn’t live freely in this one. These are not the famous people who we hear about in history books. These are just ordinary people, and they have their own stories.”

They use elongated, flexible metal rods called dowsing rods in order to detect spirits; the rods swivel in the direction of supernatural presences. They also carry spirit boxes, which are radio scanners.

The team searches for clues to the ghosts’ identities. On the transgender prisoners’ floor of an old prison, McClelland found graffiti declaring the love between prisoners named Tommy and Ronnie. He and Applebaum also uncovered a police sting that rounded up sixty gay male teenagers, many of whom had died in prison.

Of course, this is an inexact science, and McClelland readily admits that he operates primarily on instincts rather than hard facts. Regardless, the work he does uncovering queer history is vital, ghosts or not.

Get hooked on Queer Ghost Hunters here, or read more about McClelland’s mission here.

Ghostbusters’ Director Says He Can’t Confirm If Kate McKinnon’s Character In The Film Is Gay

Since the reboot was announced, people have been losing their sh*t over the new Ghostbusters simply because the ghost-busting crew is an all female cast.

But what seems to freaking people out more, is the possibility of Kate McKinnon’s character being gay female Ghostbuster.

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Sadly Ghostbusters director Paul Feig (also responsible for Bridesmaids and Freaks and Geeks) talks right around the subject in an interview with The Daily Beast’s Jen Yamato, even as he assures us that he hates doing so.

I hate to be coy about it. But when you’re dealing with the studios and that kind of thing… You know, Kate is who she is and I love the relationship between Kate and Melissa’s characters. I think it’s a very interesting, close relationship.

If you know Kate at all she’s this kind of pansexual beast where it’s just like everybody who’s around her falls in love with her and she’s so loving to everybody she’s around. I wanted to let that come out in this character.”

I wasn’t like, ‘And now you should wink at them.’ This is stuff that is coming out of Kate! That’s why you connect with those characters. They’re playing versions of themselves. That’s what makes a comedic actor fantastic, when that personality comes out. That’s why it’s so terrible when writer-directors say, ‘Stick to the script!’ Why would you hire these people who have these enormous personalities and then just cut them off?”

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It seems that given the lack of LGBT characters in major movies, the dearth of out actors, the overall avoidance of gay subject matter in Hollywood, Feig & co., had the opportunity for easy diversity and forfeited it to take the safest route possible.

Feig is coy on the matter of his character’s sexuality, but elsewhere in the interview, he pats himself on the back for what his movie’s representation represents:

“I’m proud of the fact that you have four women starring in a movie and three of them are in their forties. I really credit [former studio head] Amy Pascal and Sony for letting me do this. It’s crazy that that would be a big thing now, and it’s sad that it is. But thank god.”

The New Ghostbusters Trailer Is Here (And It Does Not Care About The Haters)

The new Ghostbusters film will be with us this July, and, hey, it still looks pretty great.

In the latest trailer, for the upcoming reboot, and it leans in just a little bit on all the (admittedly sexist) hate the first trailer received. There are even direct references to some characters thinking our four heroes aren’t up to the job, because they’re women.

We also get another look at what the new team is facing; and according to Kristen Wiig’s voice-over narration, “somebody is creating a device that amplifies paranormal activity.”

In the trailer we get tons of shots of Wiig, Jones, Melissa McCarthy, and Kate McKinnon facing off against some colourful ghosts while decked out in their signature gear.

There is also Chris Hemsworth’s receptionist being possessed by an evil ghost, and the debut of the giant ghost terrorizing the city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfUjDnpfRY

Are you excited for the reboot? Sound off in the comments!

Will There Be Lesbian Romance In The New Ghostbusters film?

Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon just got its first official trailer on this week, and we’re are already speculating about McKinnon’s character Jillian Holtzmann.

There appears to be some flirting with McKinnon’s edgy, short-haired, slightly off-kilter character, Jillian Holtzmann, and Wiig’s straight-laced scientist Erin Gilbert.

McKinnon is Saturday Night Live‘s first openly lesbian cast member, and while she’s not necessarily playing a lesbian here, her magnetic performance is certainly inviting speculation, particularly due to one particularly saucy wink and a subtly suggestive smile.

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And yes, this would be a huge moment if McKinnon were to play a lesbian character in Ghostbusters – a mainstream science fiction comedy that could very well be one of the biggest hits of the summer

While it’s probably wise to keep expectations low, this could spark a new trend for LGBTI characters in mainstream science fiction fare.

Last week, Star Wars director JJ Abrams responded to the fans wanting a romance between Finn and Poe or any gay character.

When I talk about inclusivity it’s not excluding gay characters. It’s about inclusivity,’ he said. ‘So of course . . . I would love it. To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility. So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”

Watch the Ghostbusters trailer here:

Catch Kate McKinnon Play Kick Ass Scientist, Alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, & Leslie Jones In New Ghostbusters Trailer

Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return with a cast of hilarious new characters.
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Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth.

This summer, they’re here to save the world!

New All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast Chosen, Including Kate McKinnon, SNL’s First Openly Lesbian Cast Member

The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig as well as Saturday Night Live duo Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, have been cast in the new all-female cast Ghostbusters.

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Negotiations are ongoing, but the quartet are expected to sign on as the Paul Feig-directed, poltergeist-punishing, phantom-phollowing foursome in the reboot, which is eyeing a summer shoot in New York.

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Kate McKinnon has been on SNL since 2012 and last year was nominated for an Emmy for her work. She is the first openly gay woman hired by SNL in its 37-year run, and says her sexuality actually helps her comedy.

“As minorities, we’re on the fringe, and there’s just something so wonderful about that perspective, something so inspiring.”

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Her role Ghostbusters will be the next leap for her career, pushing deeper into a more mainstream audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJk4e9LwRI