It’s showtime! Tim Burton’s highly anticipated comedy-horror sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally here, reuniting us with our beloved Betelgeuse, Lydia, and Delia Deetz almost 40 years after the ‘Ghost with the Most’ first stepped foot in Winter River. But as much as I absolutely loved seeing those all too familiar characters again, after watching the new sequel I have to admit that the stand out has to be one of the movie’s newcomers - Lydia’s daughter Astrid Deetz played by Jenna Ortega.
Moody, gothic, and with a ‘nobody understands me’ shaped chip on her shoulder, Astrid reminds me of everything I love about Winona Ryder’s 15-year-old Lydia in the first movie. But with so much talk about a potential third movie, a Beetlejuice 3 if you will, I have to admit that Astrid’s character arc has made me think we need a spin-off for her instead of a threequel. And I know exactly what it could be.
