The First Ghostbusters Proton Pack Weighed A Staggering Amount

When talking about suiting up again for the 2021 film on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” Dan Aykroyd mentions that they opted to wear heavy proton packs instead of lightweight plastic ones. This way, the actors can convey that the packs have some weight to them when moving around. Bill Murray explains that the new packs were still lighter than the ones used in the original film, which he refers to as “small refrigerators.” He goes on to say they were around 40 pounds, and they had to wear them for 14 hours a day while filming. Murray makes a crack about mothers carrying a baby during pregnancy being nothing like handling these 40-pound packs. Seth Meyers checks Murray by saying he’ll get no sympathy from mothers, which inspires a huge laugh from the group.

Murray didn’t just express his frustration with the weight of the original proton packs to Meyers. He told Vanity Fair about the packs from “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which weighed around 30 pounds, “When you put that gear on, it’s so uncomfortable. It’s so heavy, just to stand there with that weight on your back, tilting your spine … And we wore them for a long time.”