Jenna Ortega channels movie mom Winona Ryder's original “Beetlejuice” costume in press tour look
It's showtime.
Jenna Ortega took a page from the Handbook for the Very Good Method Dresser to shake, shake, shake up the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice press tour.
The actress, 21, paid homage to the strange and unusual Lydia Deetz in a custom Thom Browne outfit that takes direct cues from the white button up, black cardigan, and blue plaid skirt that Winona Ryder's character wears at the end of the original Beetlejuice film.
The stylish ensemble was completed with a handbag from OZIAS Paris that spoofs the Handbook for the Recently Deceased featured in the film, only it reads the Handbag for the Recently Deceased.
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Jenna Ortega during the press tour for 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'; Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz in the original 'Beetlejuice'It's just the latest look in a string of press tour outfits from Ortega's stylist Enrique Melendez to honor the original 1988 film, including several striped suits that nod to the white striped suit Michael Keaton's trickster ghost with the most has become known for.
In theaters Sept. 6, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, from original director Tim Burton, follows three generations of the Deetz family as they return home to Winter River following an unexpected family tragedy. Ryder, Keaton, and Catherine O'Hara reprise their beloved roles alongside newcomer Ortega, who plays Lydia's daughter Astrid. Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, and Monica Bellucci round out the starry sequel cast.
Speaking with Fandago in a recent interview alongside her costars, Ortega recalled the surreal experience of joining the sequel, sharing that it was "actually quite intimidating" to see Keaton as Beetlejuice in the flesh.
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Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz reading the Handbook for the Recently Deceased"It was the first time that I felt like I really didn’t recognize somebody,” Ortega said of Keaton, adding, "so it was really confusing mentally to be in that place. I felt like I was dissociating and I had to stare at my hands to make sure I was like an actual person.”
But the cast really became a "family," Ortega said. "Joining a sequel and it being so long since the original, I think I just wanted to put my head down and do the work and show up and be respectful and read my little book off to the side. But Winona was so warm and so welcoming, as was Catherine [and] everybody else, that you almost didn’t have a choice but to become a part of the family, which I’m so grateful for."
"In shooting and working together, I felt like everything that we were doing felt like we were all in on the same joke or on the same page," Ortega added. "It just felt like a free and collaborative space." Of the bond she formed with Ryder, "I swear we just started talking one day on set and then never stopped." Ortega shared. "You could find us in the same position four hours later never having moved. She’s the best."
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