New York City’s NY1 news anchor Pat Kiernan is also set to appear as news anchor in the film.
The new Ghostbusters team begins with Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy as scientists Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, respectively.
Leslie Jones‘ Patty Tolan, then, is the Ghostbusters team’s everyman character who winds up playing an important role connected to an early supernatural encounter.
Gilbert is a particle physicist while Yates, Gilbert’s close friend, is an expert in the paranormal.