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A mystery is solved
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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"Yeah, but that was what, Season 2, 3?" Loren said back. "That was a long time ago."
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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.