'Ghostbusters' Star Rick Moranis Looks Unrecognizable in Rare Appearance

It likely would have been difficult for passersby sharing the sidewalk with Rick Moranis to know the actor by sight when he strode down a street in New York City late last week.

The Ghostbusters star looked unrecognizable as he braved the chilly weather on Friday, Nov. 15. He was spotted wearing a heavy brown leather jacket, greenish-brown baggy pants and brown shoes. He topped off the look with a green newsboy hat, his trademark pair of glasses and brown gloves.

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Photographers captured snapshots of Moranis, 71, alternating between looking straight ahead and glancing down at the sidewalk before him as he made his way around the city, a pair of headphone wires visible inside the collar of his jacket. He held a black reusable bag in one hand as he set out for a short shopping trip at a nearby convenience store, according to The Daily Mail. The British tabloid obtained photos taken of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids actor during his Friday outing and published them the next day.

See the new photos of Moranis here.

Sightings of the Little Shop of Horrors actor have been rare over the last couple of decades. Moranis, who became a known comedic figure in Hollywood in the 1980s and early 1990s, shifted his focus from acting to raising his two kids following his wife’s death in 1991.

While he has continued working as a writer and voice actor in the years since, he has mostly avoided work on live-action film projects. Even so, returning to that kind of work wasn’t out of the question as of 2015—at the time, he told The Hollywood Reporter that he was not opposed to returning to acting if the right role were to come along.

Moranis, who told the film magazine at the time that he had “absolutely no regrets whatsoever” about his career pivot, also admitted that he tends to be “picky” with the projects he chooses to work on. “Picky has worked for me,” he explained.

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