Jenna Ortega dismisses gender-swapped Hollywood movie roles: 'We should have our own' characters
foxnews.comActress Jenna Ortega recently called out Hollywood’s haphazard attempts at reviving old movies with gender-swapped roles for women instead of innovating new stories centered around a female lead.
While discussing how "certain movies that should get a sequel, and shouldn’t get a sequel" while promoting her new film "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", "MTV’s" Josh Horowitz asked Ortega what she thought about a possible reprisal of another Tim Burton classic, "Edward Scissorhands" as "Edith Sicssorhands." "I love that there's a lot more female leads nowadays, I think that's so special.
But we should have our own. I don't like it when it's like a spin off," the 21-year-old said. "I don't want to see a ‘Jamie Bond’, I want to see just like another bada-- [character]." The California native went on to say that it would be best to "leave" the classic film as is, going on to cite that "the beauty of something like Edward [Scissorhands is] very sensitive." "Beetlejuice can still somewhat be original, because he exists in no specific time," the actress continued. "You could take him back to the 1800s if you really wanted to.
You really can make an anthology movie series with him." Ortega, who plays Astrid, daughter of Lydia Deetz from the original 1988 version of the film, also shared her belief that the film could be a "religious experience" for viewers. "Something religion can bring to people is hope, and that’s what film does as well… It can be a form of escapism; you can forget your worries and problems.
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