Grace’s father, Ross, was just finishing medical school and poised to land a coveted residency in orthopedic surgery in Dallas. Then Grace booked both the 2013 post-apocalyptic indie feature “Goodbye World” and a recurring role on the Disney XD series “Crash & Bernstein,” and suddenly, the family was faced with a dilemma. “We were like, ‘Look, you just put your name down and then they give it to you!'” Their agent suggested flying out to Los Angeles to see if Grace could book work in film and TV roles, and Crystal thought at the very least it would be a perfect excuse to visit Disneyland and Universal Studios. “We thought that it was so easy,” Grace said. (Her first single, “Haunted House,” will play over the movie’s closing credits.) What’s even more striking, and impressive, is how much Grace still feels like a kid in a business that too often curdles child actors into cynical miniature adults. Should it prove successful, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” will make Grace the star of a major movie franchise before she’s earned her driver’s license. At the same time, she is very much a kid in the most delightful way, in the way that kids make the best artists, because they are so curious, naturally, and so filled with wonder.” “And so there is a level of professionalism just by virtue of how much experience she has. “She’s quite accomplished as an actor already,” said Carrie Coon, who plays Phoebe’s mother, Callie. “I just kind of put myself in a totally different mindset, and then they’d yell cut, and I’d go, ‘Oh my god! I just shot a ghost!‘”īy way of illustration, Crystal pulled out her phone to show off a video she took during production of her daughter playing the determined and self-possessed Phoebe during the film’s dramatic climax and then, when Reitman called cut, instantly bursting into an irrepressibly giddy smile. “It was actually really hard to stay so stoic and focused because of how excited I was to be in the same vicinity as Ecto-1 and Ivan and Jason,” Grace said, radiating the kind of unaffected, earnest joy only a young teenager can muster. In one standout sequence, Phoebe winds up brandishing a proton pack and strapped to a jump seat on the iconic Ghostbusters car, Ecto-1, as her brother, Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), careens it through a small, Oklahoma town in pursuit of a troublesome phantom. But as a lifelong “Ghostbusters” fan - she saw the first film when she was 3 - Grace takes quiet, confident command of not just the role, but the entire film, which director Jason Reitman has refashioned from the adult urban comedy his father Ivan directed in 1984 into an Amblin-style Midwestern kidventure. She plays Phoebe, who looks and sounds like a kid version of her dead grandfather, Ghostbuster Egon Spengler (as originally played by the late Harold Ramis). In “ Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which opens on Friday, Grace finally has an opportunity to upend that persona.
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