Yahoo News “The Show Is Often Silly and Absurd, But We Do Like to Be Real”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With the ‘Ghosts’ Cast and Showrunners
Season 2 of Ghosts ended with a big cliffhanger (the question of which character got “sucked off,” which is the supernatural comedy’s term for heading off into the afterlife), so when showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman set their sights on Season 3, they knew they’d have to focus a lot of time crafting the details around the previous finale while leaving space to move the rest of the story forward within a compressed season. “We have 10 regulars, so we wanted to make sure that everyone was highlighted in at least one episode,” Wiseman said in a recent THR Presents panel, powered by Vision Media. Adds Port: “It’s a good problem to have that we have such a talented cast.”
One of those storylines involved Brandon Scott Jones’ character, Isaac, moving quickly through a relationship with his love interest, Nigel, and coming to terms with the fact that he is, er, dead. “Going into Season 3, I was excited to see what it was going to be like as he tries to domesticate in his new life,” says Jones. “Since Season 1, he’s been a man who’s slowly unraveling — whatever facade we met him with his being chipped away at and he has to deal with things.”
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For Rebecca Wisocky, her storyline involved the tragic reveal that her character’s cause of death was suicide, which meant collaboration with the showrunners about how to nail the sensitive material. “It’s a fine line — it’s heartbreaking and managed to bring some levity, which is something I think our shows do really well,” says Wisocky, who noted that the showrunners came to her early on to let her know about their narrative decision. “Sophia Leer wrote the episode, and I think everybody felt the responsibility to make sure that the audience felt like they could be seen, and that it could provoke a conversation that could help somebody out of despair.” Adds Port: “To tackle something like suicide in a half-hour network sitcom is unusual, but it’s a subject that’s touched so many lives. … The show is often silly and absurd but we do like to be real.”
For the rest of the conversation, watch the full panel, also featuring actors Danielle Pinnock and Asher Grodman, above. This edition of THR Presents is sponsored by CBS.
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