Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton Paramount Footage; Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros.
Jenna Ortega met Beetlejuice earlier than she met Michael Keaton.
Ortega, 21, appeared on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, August 21, the place she described assembly her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice co-star, absolutely in-costume.
“He got here up behind me,” Ortega defined. “I used to be getting a hair and make-up take a look at, and I bought a faucet on the shoulder and I rotated and it was a soar scare for positive. He was like, ‘Oh hey I’m Michael,’ and he had molds peeling off his face.”
Keaton, 70, reprised his position from the 1988 Tim Burton film, Beetlejuice. Within the sequel, which hits theaters on Friday, September 6, Ortega performs Astrid Deetz, daughter of Lydia Deetz, performed by Winona Ryder, who additionally reprises her position for the follow-up movie.
Warner Bros./Youtube (3) It’s (virtually) showtime! Beetlejuice 2 formally wrapped filming greater than 35 years after its beloved predecessor hit theaters in 1988, changing into an prompt essential and business hit. The OG movie follows not too long ago deceased couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) as they summon the undead exorcist Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) to […]
Ryder, or Catherine O’Hara — who returns as Delia Deetz — could also be extra used to Keaton’s antics because the supernatural trickster. Ortega, nonetheless, did her finest to take it in stride.
“I performed it cool. After which it was cool till I met him for a second trip of hair and make-up as a result of I launched myself once more as a result of I forgot that I had already met him,” she mentioned.
Fallon then got here to her protection, mentioning that she met Beetlejuice the primary time, not Keaton.
Even with the soar scare, Ortega known as Keaton “the good” and was grateful for the prospect to look within the film.
Michael Keaton enthralled audiences because the “ghost with probably the most” within the 1988 supernatural comedy Beetlejuice. Not solely was the movie a business and important success, however Winona Ryder scored her first breakout position as Lydia Deetz. The story follows the goth teen as she discovers she will be able to talk with the lifeless inhabitants of her […]
“By no means in my wildest desires. I simply by no means may have anticipated one thing like that taking place,” she gushed. “Lydia is the good character on the planet. Simply all the things about it, I used to be terrified.”
“It’s an entire authentic by itself, unusually sufficient,” Ortega continued. “There’s a lot on this movie that’s new and refreshing and that’s what’s so great in regards to the worlds Tim creates. You simply wish to hold exploring them and I don’t know no matter you’re anticipating however…you’re mistaken.”
Ortega additionally mentioned season 2 of her hit Netflix present Wednesday, which is at present filming. Along with taking part in the lead character, Ortega can be a producer for the season.
“It’s been the very best. I’d by no means actually accomplished that on a TV present earlier than,” she shared. “We had talked about it [during the] first season and it’s so good being a part of these conversations as a result of I really like what I do. I really like my job, however I really like being a part of the background stuff. So I get to resolve how blue somebody’s going to be or the place their brains go on the ground…I’m studying a lot it’s so informative.”