Though her coiffure seems to have remained the identical, Winona Ryder had her work lower out for her in updating the character of Lydia Deetz.
The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star stated the function in Tim Burton‘s upcoming sequel, which premieres Sept. 6, was “arduous to think about” as an grownup after first taking part in Lydia as a death-obsessed gothic teenager within the unique 1988 film
“I feel actually, I by no means pictured Lydia both having kids or in any sort of relationship,” Ryder instructed Slash Film. “I simply all the time thought she was simply most likely in her personal world as she received older. Simply form of within the attic and blissful, however alone.”
She credited the casting of Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter Astrid and Justin Theroux as her boyfriend Rory with serving to her form the grown-up model of her character, who’s now a TV persona.
“I feel as soon as we received there and as soon as Jenna and I bonded and as soon as Justin got here on board…” Ryder started to clarify. “I imply, I feel everybody who’s as previous as I’m now, we’ve all been in these issues the place you’re similar to, ‘What was I pondering, by way of the connection I’ve?’ However I don’t know what younger Lydia, I don’t assume she would ever have anticipated to be in entrance of a digital camera.”
Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice (1988). (Warner Brothers/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Together with Burton and Ryder, unique co-stars Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara are again for the sequel, which additionally options Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe, Burn Gorman, Danny DeVito, Arthur Conti and Filipe Cates.
In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Lydia returns dwelling with daughter Astrid after the demise of her father Charles (initially performed by Jeffrey Jones). There, the rebellious teen discovers a portal to the afterlife and unwittingly unleashes the titular ghoul.
