He is an essential figure in the cinema of the 80s and 90s. The scientist father in the Disney comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Darth Vader parody The Crazy Space Story, and the accountant in Ghostbusters and its sequel, Canadian actor Rick Moranis. Today he celebrates his 70th anniversary. An opportunity to wonder what happened to him.
Ever since Cherry, I Shrunk the Kids hit theaters in 1989, Rick Moranis has continued to film with great regularity. We see him in front of Ron Howard’s camera in The Spitting Image of a Model Family, but it’s always the family register that brings him his greatest success in The Flintstones and The Little Giants, not to mention Honey, I Raised a Baby and Honey, We’ve Reduced What He Sees , that he will reprise his role as inventor Wayne Salinsky.
And after this third part of the Cherry saga…? Pension! Because in 1997, at the age of 44, Rick Moranis decided to hang up his drawers to care for his two children. A decision motivated by a personal tragedy he experienced a few years earlier with the disappearance of his wife.
Then it would be six years of waiting to hear from Rick Moranis again. The actor returned in 2003 not with flesh and blood, but with a voice! He would put his stamp on the character of Ruth in Disney’s animated film Brother Bear, an experience he would revisit three years later for a sequel.
After a new hiatus, this time much longer, Rick Moranis is back in the dubbing box for the series The Goldbergs, where in 2018 he will vocally reprise his role from La Folle histoire de l’espace. So the Canadian actress has never really retired, taking full advantage of family life while allowing herself to step back into the spotlight whenever she sees fit.
A singer in his spare time (especially with an album My Mother’s Breasts and Other Love SongsPublished in 2013), will Rick Moranis one day return to the roles that made him famous? The actor declined to appear in the credits for the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot and did not appear in 2021’s Ghostbusters: Legacy. But three years ago, it was announced in discussions to reprise the role of Wayne Salinsky in the new sequel. Dear, I have reduced the children. Another comeback?
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