{"id":4378,"date":"2013-03-06T23:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2016-07-28T03:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T11:39:15","slug":"did-ernie-hudson-lose-out-on-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/03\/06\/did-ernie-hudson-lose-out-on-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Ernie Hudson Lose Out On a Role in the Real Ghostbusters Cartoon That He Played in The Actual Ghostbusters Film?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2009\/04\/19\/tv-legends-revealed-history\/\">here<\/a> to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">TV URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Ernie Hudson auditioned for the role of Winston on the Real Ghostbusters animated series and did not get the job. <\/p>\n<p>For a generation of kids growing up in the late 1980s, there is a very good chance that their first exposure to the world of the Ghostbusters was not, in fact, the popular 1984 film of the same name starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ghostbustersb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=legenrevea-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000PEX1IE&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>but the animated television series that ran from 1986-1991 (titled <i>The REAL Ghostbusters<\/i> because of a competing Filmation series called <em>Ghostbusters<\/em>, which was based on a 1970 animated series called <em>The Ghost Busters<\/em>). <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/realghostbusters.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=legenrevea-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B001N6FPQY&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The animated series adaptation, which was story edited by J. Michael Straczynski (who also wrote a number of episodes) was of a much higher quality than most cartoon adaptations of films. As a result, it hung on for an extended run (five years is an eternity in syndicated cartoon series), although Straczynski departed after the first &#8220;season&#8221; of 78 episodes due to some changes made to the series (he returned to write a few episodes in 1990 before the series ended). <\/p>\n<p>As is the standard custom for animated adaptations of films, the characters were not voiced by the actors who portrayed them in the film. Lorenzo Music voiced Bill Murray&#8217;s character, Peter, Maurice LaMarche voiced Harold Ramis&#8217; character, Egon, Frank Welker voiced Dan Dan Aykroyd&#8217;s character Ray and Arsenio Hall voiced Ernie Hudson&#8217;s character, Winston. However, did you know that in an odd turn of events, Ernie Hudson actually auditioned to voice Winston? And he lost the role to Arsenio Hall! <\/p>\n<p>Read on to see what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><Center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/erniehudson.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ernie Hudson was already an accomplished voice actor before he even starred in <i>Ghostbusters<\/i> and to this day he continues to do voice acting (he is a regular on <i>Transformers: Prime<\/i>). He did the voice of Cyborg in the <i>Super Powers<\/i> animated series in the early 1980s. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cyborg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=legenrevea-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000TSTEJG&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/ernie-hudson-talks-oz-and-losing-out-on-the-ghostb,81124\/\">an excellent interview with Will Harris at the AV Club<\/a>, Hudson opens up about how he lost the role that he portrayed in <i>Ghostbusters<\/i> in the animated adaptation of <i>Ghostbusters<\/i>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yeah, I did, and it was funny, \u2019cause they said, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to audition for the part, but the director wants to hear you read the material.\u201d So I went in to read the material, and the guy said, \u201cNo, no, no, that\u2019s all wrong! When Ernie Hudson did it in the movie&#8230;\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cWell, wait a minute: I am Ernie Hudson!\u201d [Laughs.] So when I left, they said, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not a problem, you\u2019re gonna do the voice.\u201d They called me about it\u2014I was shooting a film; I can\u2019t remember what film I was doing\u2014and then I never heard anything from them. Then I found out that Arsenio [Hall] was doing it. I was very busy doing other stuff, but I was really disappointed because the thought of someone else doing Winston was not something I felt great about. Arsenio\u2019s a friend, so there\u2019s no disrespect to him. But they had me come in and read, and even though they said I wasn\u2019t auditioning, I dunno, I guess I was just there to have the director get on my nerves. Who knows what happened there? Whatever the case, I didn\u2019t get the part. Unfortunately. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It certainly sounds like something other than &#8220;he wasn&#8217;t right for the part,&#8221; but whatever the reasons, it is still utterly bizarre. Be sure to read more from the interview to hear Hudson&#8217;s fascinating thoughts on his frustrations with the <i>Ghostbusters<\/i> franchise! <\/p>\n<p>The legend is&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to reader Charlie L. for the suggestion! Thanks to Will Harris and Ernie Hudson for the information!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is &#x62;&#x63;ro&#x6e;&#x69;&#110;&#64;l&#x65;&#x67;&#101;nd&#x73;&#x72;&#101;ve&#x61;&#x6c;ed&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the TV urban legends featured so far. TV URBAN LEGEND: Ernie Hudson auditioned for the role of Winston on the Real Ghostbusters animated series and did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[8],"tags":[1749,989,2108],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjBq-18C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8182,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2016\/11\/01\/how-winston-was-marginalized-in-the-original-ghostbusters\/","url_meta":{"origin":4378,"position":0},"title":"How Winston Was Marginalized In the Original Ghostbusters","date":"November 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"How was Winston's role dramatically reduced in the original Ghostbusters?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movie Legends Revealed&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"GHOSTBUSTERS II, Ernie Hudson, 1989, (c) Columbia\/courtesy Everett Collection","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/winston-375x250.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6116,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/08\/04\/did-the-ghostbusters-originally-travel-through-time-and-other-dimensions\/","url_meta":{"origin":4378,"position":1},"title":"Did the Ghostbusters Originally Travel Through Time and Other Dimensions?","date":"August 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. 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