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Ghost (Omari Hardwick) isn’t the only Ghost on Power, executive producer Courtney Kemp says. Dre (Rotimi Akinosho) is a (watered down) Ghost. Ghost’s son Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.) is Ghost 2.0 and Alicia Jimenez (Ana de la Reguera) is the female Ghost. There’s another ghost though, a spirit who floats in and out of the New York City loft that Ghost used to occupy with wife Tasha (Naturi Naughton) whenever she feels like it: their third child Yaz.

Fans saw Yasmine, who is always inexplicably… somewhere else, in the fifth episode of Season 5 for the first time in a long time, when the apparently busy young lady (playdates with Blue Ivy?) came home to have dinner with her f—ed up family.

Yasmine is played by five-year-old (and totally adorable as her IG shows) actress Amaya Carr. She’s only been in six of the show’s 45 episodes according to IMDB — three this season, if you can believe it — and though her some-timey presence is the Twitter gift that keeps on giving, fans should know two things about her: that the cast gets just as much of a chuckle out of Yaz the ghost as much as you do, and there are some perfectly good explanations for her unpredictable schedule.

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When TV Guide caught up with Omari Hardwick and Lela Loren at the Television Critics Association summer press tour to ask where the hell that baby was recently, they both chuckled. “That baby last hung out with [Angela],” says Hardwick. “I don’t even know if — I guess I saw her at the funeral. And you,” he said, speaking to Lela Loren, “got to play with her when you stayed.”

“Yeah, but that was what, Season 2, 3?” Loren said back. “That was a long time ago.”

Yaz is a little bit of a joke among the cast, they conceded, and Hardwick admitted he’s not entirely clear where she is all the time. “We don’t necessarily know. Why would you ask such a question?”

But there are serious reasons she’s not around. New York, where Power is mostly filmed, is one of many states that keep strict watch over child entertainers through regulations that determine how often they can work and under what conditions — that’s why shows with young kids often use twins to play one person. (The actor who plays Tariq, incidentally, is almost exempt from these rules as he’s about to turn 18 in September.) “She’s a kid,” Loren said, “So you can’t overwork her. Productions have crazy scheduling.” If you’re now wondering why Power put itself in a situation like that in the first place, the answer is: it wouldn’t have mattered.

‘Power Boss Courtney Kemp Explains Why Tasha Isn’t Ride or Die for Ghost

Says Kemp, the reason Power keeps Yaz out of sight is “mostly because we have a lot of very adult things going on on the show, and so it’s hard to put a child in some of those scenes. They’re talking about murder and drug dealing and it’s hard for me to put a five-year old in frame.” So that’s why Power tells stories about her without her present. “It’s already bad enough what we made Donshea (Hopkins, who played Raina) and Michael do,” she says. “I’m a parent at the end of the day.”

And there you have it: Yaz isn’t off running her own drug empire (yet, anyway, maybe Season 10?) and Power isn’t playing with your head. Ghost and Tasha are horrible parents, and somebody’s looking out for the only daughter they have left. Mystery solved!

Power airs Sundays at 8/7c on Starz.





Source : TVGuide

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