{"id":114551,"date":"2024-07-27T22:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/27\/dan-aykroyd-thought-he-would-retire-five-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T22:01:37","slug":"dan-aykroyd-thought-he-would-retire-five-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/27\/dan-aykroyd-thought-he-would-retire-five-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Aykroyd ‘thought he would retire five years ago’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Dan Aykroyd<\/a> thought he might have retired “five years ago”.<\/p>\n

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Dan Aykroyd is surprised he’s not retired<\/p>\n

The 72-year-old actor has remained part of the film industry through the ‘Blues Brothers’ and ‘Ghostbusters’ franchises, and Dan has insisted that he remains “grateful” for the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Dan – who played Dr. Raymond ‘Ray’ Stantz in the original ‘Ghostbusters’ movies – told PEOPLE: “I still have these two very active offices to manage, ‘Blues Brothers’ and ‘Ghostbusters’.<\/p>\n

“I thought I could retire five years ago, but it hasn’t worked out that way. That’s okay. I’m grateful for the privilege to keep going.”<\/p>\n

Dan wrote and starred in the original ‘Ghostbusters’ movie.<\/p>\n

\nBut the actor is also a fan of the all-female reboot of ‘Ghostbusters’, which was released in 2016.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I liked the movie [director] Paul Feig made with those spectacular women.<\/p>\n

\n“I was mad at them at the time because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about costs. And it cost perhaps more than it should, and they all do. All these movies do.<\/p>\n

\n“But boy, I liked that film. I thought that the villain at the end was great. I loved so much of it. And of course, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you’re never going to do better than that.”<\/p>\n

\nThe movie was widely panned by critics – but Dan feels proud of his own connection to the film.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I go on the record as saying I’m so proud to have been able to license that movie and have a hand and have a part in it, and I’m fully supportive of it, and I don’t besmirch it at all. I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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