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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Cast Jokes Tim Burton “Had To Wait” For Jenna Ortega’s Birth To Make Sequel
More than 35 years later, 'Beetlejuice' stars Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara credited Jenna Ortega for getting Tim Burton to make the sequel.
Noting that the actress “literally didn’t exist” yet when the original 1988 movie premiered, Keaton said to Burton for USA Today, “She gets born, you end up doing a thing with her. In the original movie, a recently-deceased couple (played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) enlists the help of the titular ghoul (Keaton) to help them scare away the yuppie family that moved in after their death. But when the family’s death-obsessed teen Lydia Deetz ( Winona Ryder) meets the mischievous spirit, all hell breaks loose on the Connecticut home.
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