How Beetlejuice 2 Deals With A Controversial Actor

Published: Sep 09, 2024 Duration: 00:02:33 Category: Entertainment

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Those who revisited Tim Burton's original "Beetlejuice" before seeing the long-gestating sequel may have noticed that, amid the return of familiar faces like Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton, a few main actors are largely absent from the follow-up. "I play Charles Deetz, who is a real estate developer in New York, who's had a bit of a nervous breakdown." As the teaser trailer for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" revealed, the film sees the Deetz family reunited for the funeral of patriarch Charles Deetz, played by "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" actor Jeffrey Jones in the original movie. "I can't believe grandpa's dead." "Death is hard." "Yeah, sometimes I think life is harder." As we learn in a flashback, Charles died on a bird-watching vacation overseas when his plane went down in the ocean and he was eaten by a shark. Throughout the movie, we see glimpses of Charles wandering around the afterlife, his entire upper body missing, constantly spraying blood everywhere he goes. There's also a brief shot that includes a photo of Jones' face on a gravestone. So why does the movie kill Charles off? "We're gonna have to decide what goes and what stays." "Everything goes." Burton hasn't been specifically asked about this in any interviews yet, but it's probably safe to assume the reason Jeffrey Jones doesn't appear in "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" is because the actor was arrested in 2002 and pleaded no contest to inducing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photographs. Jones was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to register as a sex offender, and was subsequently arrested two more times for failing to update his sex offender status, tacking on more years of probation as a result. Jones' career took a significant hit after that initial arrest, as you might expect. He did some voice work on a "Stuart Little" TV show and the series "Invader ZIM," and has only been credited in a few feature films since 2002 —"Who's Your Caddy?" and "10.0 Earthquake" among them. His highest profile work this century has been on the HBO series "Deadwood," where creator David Milch had hired Jones before he was first arrested and continued to support him through the aftermath of that incident. In an interview that appears in "The Deadwood Bible," Jones even says Milch lent him money for a defense in a civil suit that was brought against him for the same crime. From the outside looking in, it seems obvious that Warner Bros. Discovery made the decision to avoid any potential controversies by not bringing Jones back. Under the leadership of CEO David Zaslav, the studio has not been doing well since its merger, so they were clearly eager for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" to be a huge hit—and, with no controversies in sight and a $145M global box office so far, it's safe to say that mission was accomplished.

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