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You wouldn’t anticipate a memoir with “F*king” within the title to be all unicorns and rainbows.
Thus, it’s no shock that comic Leslie Jones’s new memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones, pulls no punches, notably in the case of the Ghostbusters reboot she starred in alongside Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy. Paul Feig directed the movie
Years after that film’s launch, Jason Reitman — whose father Ivan directed the unique two Eighties Ghostbusters movies — launched Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which ignored what Feig’s movie established within the franchise.
Jones mentioned in her memoir that Jason Reitman’s feedback about her version of the movie collection was a “fairly clear shout-out to all these losers who went after us.”
Reitman mentioned that he was “attempting to return to the unique method and hand the film again to the followers,” on a Invoice Burr podcast.
“I’m not making the Juno of Ghostbusters films,” the Juno director mentioned on the time. “That is gonna be a love letter to Ghostbusters…. I need to make a film for my fellow Ghostbusters followers.”
Reitman’s tried to stroll again the feedback after backlash on his remarks. He mentioned on Twitter that what he mentioned “got here out improper” and he thought the Jones all-female model was “wonderful.”
Jones wasn’t shopping for it in her memoir. “The harm was completed” by the unique remarks, she wrote.
“Mentioning the concept of giving the film ‘again to the followers’ was a fairly clear shout-out to all these losers who went after us for making an all-female [movie],” wrote Jones.
Jones mentioned she “obtained taken by means of the ringer” of negativity over her Ghostbusters function, noting many racist and sexist feedback.
“Why are folks being so evil to one another? How will you sit and kind ‘I need to kill you.’ Who does that?” she wrote of the “… Unhappy keyboard warriors residing of their mom’s basements hated the truth that this hallowed work of good artwork now featured — gasp! horror! — ladies within the lead roles,” wrote Jones. “Worst of all, after all, was that one of many lead characters was a Black lady. For some males, this was the ultimate straw.”
Jones deactivated her Twitter account quickly after the movie’s launch, tweeting on the time: “I go away Twitter tonight with tears and a really unhappy coronary heart. All this ’trigger I did a film. You’ll be able to hate the film however the s— I obtained right this moment … improper.”
