David Harbour says Jennifer Coolidge was annoyed he wasn't strangling her more realistically in 'We Have a Ghost' scene

• David Harbour said Jennifer Coolidge told him he wasn't strangling her enough in "We Have a Ghost."
• Harbour said he told Coolidge that he was "not gonna strangle America's Sweetheart."

David Harbour said Jennifer Coolidge took issue with his method of strangling her while filming a scene for the pair's upcoming feature film, "We Have a Ghost."

Speaking to Seth Meyers on "Late Night" Monday, Harbour detailed the joys of working with Coolidge on the film and added that she was annoyed about the way he faked strangling her for a scene.

He told Meyers that in one scene, "there's a CGI thing that shoots out of my face, and it's a hand, and it strangles her," referring to Coolidge's character.

During filming, Harbour, who plays the film's titular ghost and has zero lines in the movie, did the strangling with his own hand.

"She was like, really pissed," Harbour said. "We stopped the take, and she was like, 'David, you gotta really strangle me. You gotta strangle me!'"

"I'm not gonna strangle America's Sweetheart," he told Meyers he said in response.

Still, Harbour said, Coolidge was not pleased.

"Come on! Come on!" Harbour said Coolidge responded, giving him the opportunity to show off his nearly perfect Coolidge impression.

In another scene, Harbour said his character "frightens" Coolidge's, prompting her to "run screaming and jump out a window."

She requested they redo the take 15 times, Harbour recalled, noting that she had something new to add to her jump every time.

"It was a lesson," Harbour said. "It was an acting class."

"We Have a Ghost" — a movie about a family who finds a ghost is haunting their house, prompting them to investigate it — premieres on February 24 on Netflix.