Jenna Ortega Reflects on Meeting Winona Ryder for the First Time on Set of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'
justjared.comJenna Ortega is talking about her bond with Winona Ryder. The 21-year-old Scream actress opened up about bonding with the 52-year-old star in an interview with the New York Times, and playing Lydia’s daughter, Astrid. “She was so warm and welcoming and kind and inviting right from the jump, and I couldn’t be more grateful,” she said, adding that it was a “transformative” time in her career when she was adjusting to fame. Keep reading to find out more… “It was at a time where my career was taking a different turn, and I didn’t realize that I needed that from somebody who could relate, but I did.
The way Winona and I got along was quite weird. It was like we were reading each other’s minds a little bit.” She added that after Wednesday‘s success, she felt like “just woke up in somebody else’s shoes.” “I felt like I had entered somebody else’s life, and I didn’t know how to get back to mine.
Obviously with the success and the attention that she received in the ’90s, Winona had experienced that probably to an even greater extent, so she was the first person that I connected with on that topic, or she made me feel seen where other people necessarily in my life, as much as they wanted to, couldn’t relate or couldn’t understand.” As for advice from Winona, she said: “It’s hard to pinpoint because I think some of it I would like to keep between us.” “She just made me feel really, really beautiful and special, and that was, again, during that time, it meant the world to me.” Find out what the two conditions were for Michael Keaton to reprise his role.
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