It’s a busy month for Ernie Hudson. He’s starring in two TV series: The BET+ crime drama “The Family Business,” in its fourth season, and the NBC reboot of the time travel series “Quantum Leap.” He also stars alongside Brian Cox in the film “Prisoner’s Daughter,” which premiered last week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
That’s three major projects premiering in a span of weeks. “I’ve been doing this for over 55 years,” said Hudson. “You want to be in a position where they’re calling you as opposed to you begging them.” That wasn’t always the case — especially after his breakout performance in the original “Ghostbusters” movie in 1984.
“After I did the movie, everything dried up,” he said. “It was the opposite of what I thought it would be. It was like I couldn’t get arrested. I couldn’t even get an audition at Columbia, and Columbia released ‘Ghostbusters’! I don’t know why. Nobody can explain it.”
