‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Cast Jokes Tim Burton “Had To Wait” For Jenna Ortega’s Birth To Make Sequel
deadline.comAfter more than 35 years, Tim Burton finally found the secret ingredient needed to bring Beetlejuice back to life once again.
While promoting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which premieres Sept. 6 in theaters, returning stars Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara credited Jenna Ortega for helping the director see his long-awaited sequel to fruition after first working together on Netflix‘s Wednesday.
Noting that the actress “literally didn’t exist” yet when the original 1988 movie premiered, Keaton said to Burton for USA Today, “She gets born, you end up doing a thing with her.
Then you go, wait a minute. Her? It? If she’s not around, we may never make this thing.” “We had to wait for you to live,” O’Hara joked to their 21-year-old co-star Ortega, who quipped: “The powers have shifted in the room.” In the original movie, a recently-deceased couple (played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) enlists the help of the titular ghoul (Keaton) to help them scare away the yuppie family that moved in after their death.
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