Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Jenna Ortega has opened up on Tim Burton's hands-off approach to directing, and how she ensured her character wasn't just a rehash of the franchise's original teen, Winona Ryder's Lydia Deetz.
In the long-awaited sequel, which picks up with the Deetzes 36 years on from the original, Ortega plays Lydia's teen daughter Astrid. After their previous encounter with the titular ghoul, the family have found themselves in New York City – Astrid at boarding school, Delia (Catherine O'Hara) curating avant-garde art shows, and Lydia hosting a paranormal reality show called Ghost House. When Charles Deetz dies suddenly, though, the trio finds itself back at Winter River, navigating their tension-filled relationships as they start being, quite literally, haunted by their past.
