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Winona Ryder is backmost connected acceptable for Beetlejuice 2, and it feels similar nary clip has passed since she archetypal played Lydia Deetz 35 years agone successful the 1988 deed Beetlejuice. Winona, successful new photos posted by Daily Mail, transformed into the iconic quality arsenic she filmed caller scenes for the sequel successful Hertfordshire, England, connected May 18.
The 51-year-old Stranger Things prima was rocking Lydia’s signature spiky ‘do, acheronian oculus makeup, and an all-black ensemble arsenic she sat successful a car. The years person flown by but Lydia Deetz inactive looks precisely the same. Then again, Lydia is technically dead.
Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder successful the archetypal ‘Beetlejuice.’ (Warner Bros./Everett Collection)
Winona volition beryllium joined by Michael Keaton, who is acceptable to instrumentality arsenic the 1 and lone Betelgeuse. Wednesday star Jenna Ortega volition play Lydia’s daughter. Warner Bros. confirmed Jenna’s casting astatine the company’s CinemaCon panel.
Beetlejuice 2 has been successful the works for years now. Winona archetypal talked astir it backmost successful 2015 during an quality connected Late Night with Seth Meyers. “Um, I deliberation I tin corroborate it, due to the fact that Tim Burton did this interrogation — like, it was precise hush-hush, apical concealed … and past helium was doing immoderate property for Big Eyes and helium did an on-camera interrogation and helium said, ‘Oh yea we’re doing it and Winona’s going to beryllium successful it,’ and I was similar [shocked face],” she said astatine the time.
Winona Ryder astatine the ‘Stranger Things’ premiere. (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock)
Obviously, Winona has been engaged implicit the past respective years playing Joyce Byers successful the Netflix juggernaut Stranger Things, which volition instrumentality for a fifth and last season successful the future. After years of being successful limbo, Beetlejuice 2 was yet confirmed successful 2022. Catherine O’Hara volition beryllium reprising her relation arsenic Delia Deetz. Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, and Monica Bellucci person besides joined the cast, with the second playing Betelgeuse’s wife. Tim Burton volition instrumentality to nonstop the film.
Filming began successful May 2023 contempt the ongoing writers’ onslaught extracurricular London. Beetlejuice 2 is acceptable to deed theaters connected September 6, 2024.
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