Winona Ryder’s ‘One Condition’ for Joining ‘Stranger Things’ Was a Filming Break If ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Ever Happened: ‘They Agreed. Luckily, It Worked Out’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Winona Ryder revealed during a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar that she had only one condition when she first met “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer for a role they wanted her to play on Netflix: If “Beetlejuice 2” ever got off the ground, they’d have to let her take a break from the series to film it.
They agreed, and Ryder was cast as the matriarch Joyce Byers in what would become one of Netflix’s biggest original series. “I am literally on my 10th year playing her,” Ryder said in a video interview for the magazine. “It’s an absolute first for me to play a character for that long.
It was huge to say yes to just one episode … they only gave me the pilot episode. I didn’t at the time know what streaming was.
It was terrifying in that regard.” “At the time, Tim [Burton] and I were talking about the ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel,” Ryder continued. “There have been moments over the last 15 years where we thought it was going to happen, but that’s the thing … it had to be perfect with everybody in order for it to happen.
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