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Ernie Hudson On 'Quantum Leap' Reboot', 'Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Game & 6 Decades of Acting
Oct 24, 2022
Ernie Hudson stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about the Quantum Leap Reboot, Ghostbsters and much more.
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Ernie Hudson On 'Quantum Leap' Reboot', 'Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Game & 6 Decades of Acting
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[Applause]
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wow man that's a trailer for Quantum
0:02
Leap the Revival
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Quantum Leap is there Mondays at 10 p.m
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on NBC we have to start DB I wonder if
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you can do the honors man I know
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I feel like you know this guy has been
0:16
playing such a major role in all of our
0:17
Lives yeah through his work
0:20
facts ever since Heather was the
0:22
character you fell in love with don't do
0:25
that my uncle watched Penitentiary to it
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I know about half dead
0:31
I feel so embarrassing but it was just
0:35
awesome
0:39
let them know who we got in the room
0:41
with us real quick well if you ask me
0:43
who my favorite Ghostbuster is it's easy
0:44
because my grandfather's name was
0:46
Winston and so you know you are the
0:48
unsung hero of the Ghostbusters but also
0:50
my favorite and um you know today's a
0:52
special day you're here to talk about
0:54
Quantum Leap the reboot which is airing
0:55
now but Ghostbusters fans Ghostbusters
0:58
Spirits Unleashed is available today the
1:00
video game is also Al dropping today so
1:03
we have something else to celebrate with
1:04
our guests with us right now the
1:05
returning very important citizen the Vic
1:08
we got to bring that turn back as well
1:09
he's been there a bunch of times we love
1:10
him Ernie Hudson he's back
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thank you hey
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sort of it's a video game it is there's
1:19
a lot of uh there's actually one video
1:20
game that dropped today the Ghostbuster
1:22
Spirits unleash and then there's the VR
1:23
game which um you know we were talking
1:24
about the the Oculus so they made a VR
1:27
version where you can actually feel like
1:29
you're in the environment Chasing Ghosts
1:30
and you know busting make you feel good
1:33
yo man
1:35
did you negotiate something good for
1:37
that video game yeah yeah I know
1:39
everybody's uh you know they're treating
1:40
me nice and I'm just for smiling and
1:43
very happy I collected checks really you
1:46
know yeah I know it's not like the first
1:47
one where I'm looking at and being angry
1:49
I'm I'm happy now so you know life is
1:52
good and amen good man yeah just giving
1:55
thanks every day Ernie Hudson is Happy
1:58
Hudson should be happy you put in the
2:00
work and it's just nice to be able to
2:03
just enjoy it you know like just enjoy
2:06
it and people from all ages now like
2:08
what I'm talking about Penitentiary DB
2:10
is talking about you know Ghostbusters
2:13
you know there's shows on bet that we
2:15
like it's just amazing to see well yeah
2:18
it's a blessing I you know I started out
2:20
50 my son is 57 so I started before he
2:23
was born and uh yeah just over the years
2:27
just slugging away and now it seems to
2:30
be sort of all
2:31
falling in place in a wonderful way and
2:33
I'm just like I said I'm just giving
2:35
thanks how important now is as we say
2:39
the bag is the money
2:41
how important well you know I think you
2:43
have to reach a point in life where you
2:44
realize uh how much is enough okay
2:47
because you ain't never gonna get that
2:49
big bag of all of it you know what I'm
2:50
saying so I just gave up on that I ain't
2:52
worried about that but I got enough to
2:54
do whatever I need to do
2:58
yeah I think money is as long as you can
3:01
get enough to keep moving so it doesn't
3:03
stop you you know when your car breaks
3:05
down and you can't get it fixed then you
3:07
stop you know what I mean so Nothing
3:08
Stops me from moving in the direction I
3:11
want to move in wow it's also bananas to
3:13
me that your son is 57 but you look 57.
3:17
yeah I think it bothers my son too
3:22
you should be happy that's you know
3:24
that's epigenetics it's going to pass to
3:26
him too right yeah no it's uh yeah four
3:28
Sons they're all really amazing and uh
3:30
yeah no and once again I think it's just
3:32
a a blessing to be able to my
3:36
grandmother would say you know just
3:37
don't do the stupid stuff and if you're
3:39
going to be an old black man be an old
3:41
black man with some money you know be an
3:44
old black man who's healthy as opposed
3:45
and not healthy you know be an old black
3:47
man who's positive as opposed to angry
3:50
yeah so you know you just want to
3:52
reflect
3:53
the best of you know you believe in God
3:55
and show that
3:57
you haven't been tired you know like
4:00
this has been a narrative that's been
4:02
introduced to our conversation about
4:04
black men and a lot of times we ask each
4:06
other how you doing and we say okay you
4:10
know yeah but you you haven't been tired
4:12
and said okay anyway no you know I I
4:14
lost three friends during this whole
4:16
cover thing and each of them said man
4:18
I'm just tired uh just before they died
4:21
so uh I'm not tired yet okay you know
4:24
what I'm saying and I yeah no I I just
4:27
uh and I don't I think you have to
4:29
listen to your body I mean at times when
4:31
I wake up and I'm a little stiff I'm a
4:32
little sore but I'm like okay what do
4:34
you want to tell me but now that you
4:36
said that uh we got to move on so I
4:39
don't really feel
4:40
I don't feel
4:42
you know diminished okay in any way you
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know I know I'm I'm looking at 77 in
4:48
another month or so but I just feel yeah
4:51
like I'm ready to to keep moving and um
4:55
you know whatever you haven't done
4:57
career-wise you just need to make peace
4:59
with oh you know I would just go maybe
5:02
that ain't going to happen you know I
5:04
think the hardest part of getting older
5:05
for me is just realizing that uh I'm not
5:07
perfect you know what I mean I look at
5:09
people like Martin Luther King and
5:11
people who did some amazing you know
5:13
Malcolm X and I go okay well I'm not
5:16
that guy so maybe I need to make peace
5:19
with the guy that I am and uh and love
5:22
that did you ever get a chance to meet
5:25
Martin Luther King or Malcolm X or no no
5:28
I never did you know I was so like a lot
5:30
of people so caught up with just uh you
5:33
know I was a single dad trying to you
5:34
know get the rent trying to keep the car
5:36
running trying to get the phone on you
5:38
know a lot of things going on but I just
5:40
need to focus on this trying to figure
5:42
out how much to get on stage I'm going
5:44
to do what I need to do so
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no I never yeah never had the chance
5:50
right yeah so we're trying to do well I
5:52
was trying to do the math and I'm
5:53
thinking my goodness this man has been
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blessed to be working in this industry
5:58
for six decades a little over six
6:00
decades and even with us doing music and
6:03
being in radio every day we've seen so
6:06
much and we've learned you know coming
6:08
from a particular era of Music how to be
6:11
welcoming to some of the younger artists
6:13
that come in and not necessarily push
6:16
off their music push off their message
6:18
push off their voice
6:19
um for you watching so much change in
6:21
the industry and actors only work with
6:24
actors and now seeing rappers and
6:25
everything come into it sure have you
6:27
been welcoming as well and in the
6:29
digital platforms and everything yeah I
6:31
mean there's so much I don't understand
6:32
even though I try to I mean I've really
6:35
tried you know what I mean I bought a
6:37
car and I don't know how to raise the
6:40
volume of it you know what I mean I'm so
6:42
frustrated that way and so on the
6:44
steering wheel yeah I know you know but
6:46
but I didn't know is you need to slide
6:48
it you can't just tap them but uh yeah I
6:51
know some wonderful thing things that 20
6:54
years ago I never would have believed I
6:55
mean we're at a place now and I think we
6:57
really need to appreciate the advances
6:59
because there are a lot of advances and
7:01
we're in places
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uh to be able to now do it on our own
7:05
accord without permission so I'm excited
7:08
and anything I can do to encourage to um
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you know to incentivize to help
7:15
um you want to do that you definitely
7:17
because it it is the future and it's a
7:19
future that I'll probably never see but
7:21
I'm so happy when I see something
7:23
positive because it's so much negative
7:26
around that you kind of go oh my God I
7:28
can't focus on that because that will
7:31
make me tired you know so but I see
7:33
people coming in being creative you guys
7:35
being here doing this program you know
7:37
inviting me to come on and talk
7:40
um that's that's that's amazing to me
7:42
you know
7:44
um and stories I mean our stories are
7:46
changing and we're getting closer to
7:48
being able to tell our story the true
7:50
stories you know that um because the
7:53
truth will you know set you free and
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that's why I look forward to
7:57
Ernie Hudson man we're talking about
7:58
Quantum Leap Mondays at 10 p.m on NBC BB
8:01
yeah I want to um I want to talk about
8:03
Quantum Leap and Ghostbusters but I'm
8:04
gonna tie it together because if you if
8:06
you really look at Ghostbusters and the
8:08
fact that that movie was successful is
8:09
almost like lightning in a bottle you
8:11
had four grown men in Flight suits
8:13
Chasing Ghosts around New York City
8:14
saving it from a marshmallow man you
8:16
know to trying to destroy the roof of an
8:18
apartment building if you were to
8:19
explain that plot to somebody before the
8:21
film came out they probably would have
8:22
thought like there's no way this movie
8:23
is going to work not only did it work it
8:25
became successful had spin-offs you know
8:27
sequels and everything like that
8:28
merchandise uh animated shows and
8:30
everything so as an actor when you look
8:32
at all that success that came from
8:34
something that you know could have
8:36
failed just as easily does it make you
8:38
look at everything you've done after
8:39
that as like wow is this going to be
8:40
another like runaway hit that nobody saw
8:43
coming or did it make you sort of choose
8:46
your project a little more carefully
8:47
because of the amount of success that
8:49
came from Ghostbusters well Ghostbusters
8:51
and had this huge success but it didn't
8:53
necessarily translate in my world you
8:57
know what I'm saying I mean I'm you sort
8:58
of moving along and you get this big hit
9:00
and you think oh my God the world's
9:01
going to open up and the world doesn't
9:02
open up and you kind of go oh my God all
9:04
this stuff is happening but it's not
9:06
filtering down to me so you know how do
9:08
I hold on I'm happy that the studio is
9:12
making money but how do I fit in here
9:14
you know I'm signing autographs on
9:16
posters that I'm not on so you kind of
9:19
have to get you know but how do I stay
9:22
you know how do I keep the faith how do
9:24
I keep moving forward you know and in
9:27
time now it shows up you know I mean I
9:29
got a thing from Jason Reitman the um
9:32
the son of I am a Reitman who directed
9:34
The Last film you know and he says Ernie
9:35
you Winston zetamore is a patriarch of
9:38
Ghostbusters as we move forward well
9:40
that's I'm happy we got to that place it
9:43
took 40 years to get there but uh but if
9:45
I Look Back 40 years ago I I couldn't
9:48
have imagined that but it's always great
9:49
to be in a hit you know the people like
9:52
you know people get excited about you
9:54
know it's always good because a lot of
9:55
films you know the Penitentiary tools
9:58
don't necessarily hit that market yeah
10:00
the human tornadoes and you know it was
10:03
a hit in the hood can you name all your
10:05
titles
10:07
was a hit in the hood
10:08
you you've been on like over what 200
10:12
250 screens yeah I know I've been uh
10:15
it's been a long time but no I had an
10:17
argument a few days ago with a guy not
10:18
an argument but he told me he said I
10:20
really loved you in that movie and he
10:22
started describing it was some
10:24
movie I'd made Air Force One or
10:26
something and I said no no I wasn't in
10:28
that he said oh yeah yeah no you were
10:30
and I said no no I wasn't he said you
10:32
sure he said because I remember you came
10:33
in the room and and then he started
10:35
describing it and I thought oh my God
10:36
yeah I wasn't
10:38
so Batman that comes in point and then
10:41
you get the other side of it I took uh
10:43
the car in from the airport and the uh
10:45
the driver was saying oh man I love you
10:47
so much man you changed my life you know
10:49
that um
10:52
who's in it uh Carl Carl
10:55
and Arnold Schwarzenegger
10:58
yeah oh man said you did the predator
11:00
and I just man you just said and I
11:02
didn't have the heart to say man I
11:03
wasn't in that movie
11:06
so he was uh was it maybe I don't know
11:14
you said you changed my life man he said
11:16
you know
11:17
and I thought he would let it go but the
11:19
whole way from the airport he talked
11:21
about my performance in this movie that
11:23
I really was not in but that's that's
11:25
okay
11:26
Ernie Hudson is here man okay big round
11:28
of that's crazy Quantum lead first came
11:30
out win
11:32
uh was it the late 80s 1989 89 okay yeah
11:37
we're in 2022.
11:39
um your character is the head of the
11:40
Quantum Leap uh time travel project
11:43
right right yeah
11:45
back then did you believe Quantum Leap
11:48
was possible time travel was possible
11:51
uh about as much as I believe it is now
11:53
I mean you know we haven't got to that
11:56
place yet but I like the idea of the
11:58
possibilities you know to LEAP back how
12:00
does that work I mean I still when I I
12:03
asked myself questions and I kind of go
12:05
you know leave it alone say the lines
12:07
and just do this job and hopefully it'll
12:10
last because I don't think too deep on
12:12
it you know because I'm like where's his
12:14
body at and uh
12:16
who's he leaping into you know me so I
12:19
just go you don't even don't go there
12:21
you know I mean just
12:22
just enjoy it and uh but the
12:26
possibilities that's what sci-fi does
12:27
you know sci-fi takes us to a place
12:30
where we kind of go oh wow that's if
12:31
that could happen if and some things
12:33
have yeah you know come through so maybe
12:35
you know at some point we'll be able to
12:37
LEAP into I love the idea that it the
12:40
whole human spirit because I think we're
12:42
beings first and foremost and so he in
12:46
fact that in the upcoming episode he
12:48
leaps into a black lady
12:50
um and so being able to LEAP in Crossing
12:53
genders and race and all that opens us
12:56
up to possibilities that you know if we
12:59
could have seen things from a different
13:00
perspective that's what excites me about
13:02
it but in terms of time and you know
13:05
unless we believe in alternate universes
13:07
yeah then I go okay then it's possible I
13:10
see you've been down this spiral I do so
13:12
I went through it for years so I just
13:13
was curious to what you thought about it
13:15
oh yeah yeah alternate universes quantum
13:17
physics parallel universes yeah yeah
13:20
that's another Ernie Hudson somewhere
13:22
else right now now having this
13:23
conversation with a white me
13:28
you didn't stay away his name is Wayne
13:30
yeah
13:32
yeah yeah I could see that you can do
13:36
that I can't all right so look we're
13:38
gonna have you do this thing we call we
13:40
call the mystery sack Heather can you
13:42
explain this to us yes there are some
13:44
questions in here from our citizens who
13:46
listen to this show we put them in
13:48
sway's little sack you have to dig in
13:50
answer three okay one at a time hold on
13:54
let's hit the intro
13:56
go ahead and reach in dig deep dig deep
14:02
put your hands into sway's sack that
14:05
sounds gross it sways mystery sack
14:09
unshade 45. I want to apologize
14:15
so three questions one at a time you
14:18
have to read them out loud and you gotta
14:20
answer honestly do I need uh sanitizer
14:23
yeah
14:24
another Universe your sack ain't a
14:26
sparkly sweater
14:29
it's very sparkly so
14:31
manscaping
14:34
just smooth
14:36
what's a hobby or interest you have that
14:39
would possibly surprise most folks
14:43
um
14:44
jeez I don't know I um
14:47
I I yeah I I
14:51
meditated I don't know if that's a hobby
14:54
um you know I I love watches that I'm
14:58
afraid to mention because of people
15:00
robbing people of watches but um yeah
15:03
yeah watches is interesting you got like
15:06
four of them on right now you do yeah no
15:08
I well this is my computer but that uh
15:10
Apple watch the Apple watch is a
15:12
computer it does everything my computer
15:14
does and the other watch is just to
15:16
watch it I love watches so you know you
15:18
don't need to be concerned about people
15:19
robbing you man uh well hey that's what
15:22
I thought too question number two I
15:24
watch is nice unfortunate
15:27
um so uh question number two
15:30
have you ever had to work with someone
15:33
who was drunk or high on the job how did
15:36
you handle it
15:38
um I always assume nobody is high and
15:41
that is probably it's a wrong assumption
15:43
because yeah I've worked with a lot of
15:44
people who are like out of their minds
15:46
and I was trying to figure out
15:48
personality wise no they were just High
15:50
you know and
15:52
um so yeah you know I tried that once I
15:55
got high and uh I had to go on stage and
15:58
it was a worse experience of my life so
16:00
wow you couldn't remember the lines yeah
16:02
I couldn't remember where I was I didn't
16:04
know if I had said the line or if I was
16:05
supposed to say the line or was it Coke
16:08
what did you do no just no marijuana I
16:10
can't I don't react well to marijuana
16:12
you know what I mean it just really kind
16:14
of kind of heavy and I I went on an
16:17
audition once I was high and and I and I
16:20
I was I was so messed up I thought
16:21
everybody knew and so I started
16:22
apologizing for the fact that I was so
16:25
no you snitched on yourself yeah I just
16:28
yeah
16:41
so what are some of your favorite perks
16:44
that come with being in Hollywood
16:47
um well I think I love the fact that um
16:50
you know people don't normally
16:52
um ask me for you know money or things
16:55
like that but just sometimes just a
16:58
encounter changes it seems to change
17:01
their moment you know I can see somebody
17:03
on the street who's just having a rough
17:06
day it looked like or they're down or
17:07
whatever and they'll see me and they'll
17:09
kind of go oh my God in this Spirits
17:11
would lift and suddenly it's like man I
17:13
can't believe this and you know which I
17:15
tell my mama I saw you she gonna be so
17:17
old you know and uh and that that's kind
17:20
of a blessing to be able to do that
17:21
without yeah just you know I love that
17:24
man give her any Hudson Round of
17:26
Applause man real quick DD is in Chicago
17:28
Heather I know you got to go to Urban
17:30
view okay DD is in Chicago go ahead
17:34
hi
17:39
um so the connect the little connection
17:41
that we have is that my cousin he's a
17:44
distant cousin of mine is Ray Parker Jr
17:46
who's saying the Ghostbusters theme song
17:51
yeah yeah and I haven't met him but he
17:54
was real close to my grandfather and my
17:57
great-grandfather ah yeah well you know
18:00
I have met him he's a he's a good friend
18:02
I love Ray he's a really just a very
18:05
very special dude and um he's made so
18:08
much money on Ghostbusters that theme
18:09
song that uh it's uh yeah I did raise a
18:13
just really very very special so
18:16
hey can you tell him DD says hi
18:18
you know what because because you know
18:21
what yeah I I will definitely try to
18:22
tell him that I have to write it down so
18:24
I remember but uh yeah I'll try to pass
18:26
it on DD that um you know that could I
18:29
also say that
18:31
um you are you are black excellent
18:34
because
18:35
being a Ghostbuster and myself being a
18:38
black nerd blurred you being a
18:41
Ghostbuster like
18:43
that is Iconic for the black community
18:45
oh well thank you thank you that uh that
18:48
means a lot really I appreciate you
18:49
saying that Dede you have a beautiful
18:51
day you're a citizen I'm glad we made
18:53
this connection all right let's give it
18:54
a big wrap thank you all right Quantum
18:56
Lee bearing Mondays and not a 10 p.m 9
18:59
p.m Central on NBC
19:01
Ernie Hudson is always a pleasure a
19:03
thrill to have you on this show man
19:05
thank you so much guys for it's always
19:07
great to be here I just really
19:08
appreciate you guys and admire and love
19:10
what you're doing so just keep it up and
19:13
you know all the best dude
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