Ghosts’ Danielle Pinnock Really Found Her Character In The Flashback Scene – Looper

In a panel at New York Comic Con in 2022 with the full cast of “Ghosts,” the episode “Alberta’s Podcast” was screened beforehand and Pinnock discussed what it was like to shoot the episode and what she learned about Alberta from doing so. Pinnock said that, in this episode, when Alberta takes the stage to sing, that was when she first came to really understand Alberta and said that “she lives for the applause.” Pinnock also talked about how much fun it was for her to be on a stage performing in the episode as she started out as a theater actor and hasn’t been back on a stage since 2016.

In a 2022 interview with TV Insider, Pinnock said some of the same things about the episode and the flashback in particular. “It was the best day of work being able to go back in time with our girl Alberta,” she said, noting how she was able to perform alongside so many great Black artists. She also said that fans specifically requested a flashback of this sort on social media, meaning that the fans really wanted to see Alberta in her natural element: on a stage singing jazz. She also reiterated what she said at NYCC about her character’s love of applause, saying “She’s a singer, she loves an audience.” 

In that sense, the flashback scene in “Alberta’s Podcast” was one of the most revealing flashbacks of the entire series thus far.