[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Ghosts Season 2, Episode 3, “Jay’s Friends.”]
Ghosts continues to ship laughter and coronary heart in equal measure with its newest episode, “Jay’s Pals,” however don’t let the title idiot you, it’s simply as a lot about Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) as it’s about resident hippie Flower (Sheila Carrasco).
Whereas Jay works on constructing bonds with fellow locals, he meets Micah (visitor star Drew Tarver), a person who has captivated a big following of individuals with the promise of everlasting life. At first, Jay doesn’t see the indicators that he’s befriending a cult chief, however Flower acknowledges it together with the opposite ghosts who attempt to verify Sam (Rose McIver) steers her husband away from Micah and his therapeutic vitamin patches and the others who’ve been sucked into the cult.
Sadly, it’s just a little too late as a result of Jay signed a contract, successfully permitting Micah and his followers to take up residence at Woodstone. Alongside the best way, Flower opens up about her expertise and the family members that attempted to maintain her from pursuing the cult life-style, like her brother Robby. Believing he died in battle, a chat together with her fellow ghosts clarifies that MIA doesn’t imply “murdered in motion,” however quite “lacking in motion.”
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As a thanks for Flower’s assist in extricating Sam and Jay from Micah’s twisted setup, Sam tracks down Flower’s brother, sends him an e-mail, and manages to get a heartwarming repsonse. Under, Carrasco is opening up about Flower’s emotional journey on this episode and divulges her private connection to the story.
It was just lately introduced that Ghosts is without doubt one of the comedies of the autumn season. How does it really feel to know that the present remains to be connecting with audiences in its second season?
Sheila Carrasco: It’s so uncommon that you simply’re in a spot the place everybody’s there and loves the job. And so forth prime of that, to see how many individuals are loving watching it’s… it’s actually simply superb. And I’m simply so excited for everybody to see the remainder of the season as a result of I feel we’re making a reasonably particular season. I used to be simply remembering all we’ve shot up to now and I’m like, “Oh, proper. Oh my gosh. Individuals are gonna lose their minds.”
Regardless of figuring out the cult-like qualities to Micah and his group, Flower isn’t actually suspicious of them. You’d assume a former cult member could be extra alarmist concerning the state of affairs. Why isn’t she?
I feel that she’s pretty gullible and a lover and he or she says sure to her entire coronary heart. So when somebody like Micah walks into that room with this flowing beautiful hair, his philosophies, and taking part in basketball, she’s all in from a begin. Additionally, I don’t know that she ever left the cult as a result of [she doesn’t] know but that the cult was finally dangerous for her. That’s one thing that she discovers on this episode, that she misplaced one thing due to the cult. One thing actually big in her life, her brother and household. She doesn’t essentially blame the cult for that from the get-go.
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Talking of Micah, what was it like attending to work with Drew Tarver?
Oh my gosh, Drew was, is so humorous. I’ve been such a fan of his for a very long time and knew him from sketch comedy and another stuff in LA. So to get to work with him after having seen him on The Different Two and simply killing it on the market, it was such a deal with for him to come back and visitor on our present. He’s like the right visitor star as a result of he’s so humorous and he’s such knowledgeable. However he additionally involves work and needs to attach with individuals, and have a enjoyable time, and usually, he stays very free in his character, which I additionally love seeing as a result of I feel that he comes from the world that Flower comes from by way of standpoint and physicality.
Contemplating Micah’s principal pitch is vitamin patches, do you assume Flower would have been swayed by one thing like that or is it not pure sufficient?
I feel she’d be all in, and I’ll admit two weeks earlier than we shot this episode and bought this script, I had simply purchased vitamin patches. I purchased them and I put them on my physique after which I type of felt nauseous hours later and I took it off after which I noticed on the field it was not FDA permitted but. And I used to be like, “What are you doing?” So I get it. And I feel Flower would completely purchase into this cult, not only for the well being advantages of those vitamin patches, however as a result of she needs neighborhood and connection. I feel she likes the entire tradition of it.
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How did it really feel to dig deeper into Flower’s emotional facet on this episode, particularly with the added layer of her revealing she thought her brother had been lifeless since Vietnam?
Flower is out and in of lucidity usually. I feel a number of the time that we see her, she isn’t very lucid. She’s positively excessive and having acid flashbacks, particularly in her large group scenes and he or she’s simply forgotten what simply occurred or is available in with one thing random to say. That’s the Flower that we see a number of the time and a Flower I like to play, however the fact is Flower additionally has moments of lucidity. We see that [in Season 1], after which she in a short time loses it. Within the moments the place she’s lucid, she’s a really actual grounded particular person like anybody else as a result of she’s not excessive in these moments and he or she’s in a position to recall her household and he or she’s in a position to have regrets and similar to anybody else.
And so it’s such an exquisite present to have the ability to discover that facet of her. And for me, personally, that storyline actually hit a gentle spot. I’ve two siblings within the Armed Forces. I’ve a brother who has served three fight excursions in Iraq and a sister who’s within the Air Pressure. They’re each Lieutenant Colonels. I’m very pleased with them. I’ve additionally chosen a really totally different life being an artist, and over time I discovered it vital to remain related to them. I can’t think about what Flower should be going via when she finds out that her brother may nonetheless be on the market. So, uh, it was only a actually lovely second to have the ability to play and I hope that we proceed to see extra about Flowers’ household and backstory of who she was earlier than she left for the cult and the commune. I feel it actually opens a number of doorways for that.
Would you prefer to see Flower’s brother or anybody else from her previous cease by Woodstone?
Oh sure, for positive. I might like to see that. I don’t know what we now have deliberate by way of Flower’s, previous life coming again to Woodstone. It could possibly be Ira, it could possibly be her brother, perhaps all of them. However I might love for her to have the ability to see her brother and I’m simply tearing up serious about it. And I’m additionally serious about all of the superb actors that may doubtlessly play her brother. I’d like to see their dynamic. I imply, not that he would be capable of see her, however I’d like to know extra about that brother-sister dynamic and have it type of rekindled indirectly.
Are there any enjoyable issues arising that followers needs to be enthusiastic about?
Yeah, we’d study just a little bit extra about Flower’s Bear Assault. We’d see extra of Flower and Thorfinn, and their journey collectively. I do assume it’s a little bit of a journey and we additionally may see some unlikely different pairings develop. In order that could be stunning to everybody. We’d meet somebody that begins to suspect the home is haunted and it could be an issue.
Ghosts, Season 2, Thursdays, 8:30/7:30c, CBS
