BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE interviews Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Tim Burton 4K

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE cast & director interviews [Music] [Music] it's just 100% original and it's kind of Michael Keaton - Beetlejuice I've always described it as a as a kind of piece of art you could almost just like grab the movie and if you could just hang it you know somewhere it's that's why for a long time he and I thought don't touch it but it's also kind of Timeless and it must touch things uh in people because it it t it's titillating for some reason you know um and I just think people were drawn to this really unusual visual treat because a lot of it is the visuals and the visual jokes but also just the visuals you know and the and the the just it's really interesting to watch people react so positively to Pure Imagination from Tim just Just Pure Imagination you know um and no one ever saw anything like that well I was praying they would be back in it um uh especially Katherine but I you know I was hoping you know she and you really needed Noni orona and uh her so to have them back was really fun and then Justin is so funny in this thing um but Winona is and is the sweetest and and she just fit right back in and Jenna man she just got the tone she said okay I know ex she knew exactly what the tone was she didn't try to do something different or or go off in a direction that didn't fit she just got it you know um and Katherine's paline you know she and I worked this is our third time together and you know I wouldn't have it any other way the the fun that everyone was having I haven't seen that on a set in a long time everyone who worked on it you could tell really enjoyed showing up for work because how often do those people do any of us get to do that anymore Pure Freedom Pure Freedom pure I'm just GNA I'm just going to go nuts I'm just going to I've got I've got an idea I have no idea this will work and we never rehearsed it we never you can ask Tim but I'm 99% positive we never put it on film to look at it uh he had already started shooting and you know when I walked out the trailer looking like I looked it was either going to work or it wasn't the great thing about this Beetle Juice Beetle Juice Beetle Juice is uh it the story is stronger if you ask me and and he trusted the story and I'm I'm obviously you know inter not only integral I drive I kind of drive but I kind of don't drive it actually Jenna drives it and Katherine and and wona uh actually I don't drive it all I think about it but but it it works better somehow I can't quite explain it except the story is stronger and you love the whole experience and he's just a fun thing in it whereas maybe in the first one it may have been we can't wait till he comes on again you know there were some efforts over the years and they just this is a hard thing to write because a lot of it was just created by I and and Catherine and the the cast and people really A lot of it was and and still like that so to say oh yeah go write a sequel that well even the first one was well written but it was then taken and and then made into what it what it was and what it became right so to do that again is really hard and we've seen over the years script here and there and they weren't terrible but they they didn't get it and and the truth is nobody can really write it perfectly because it it gets made when we start shooting it and beforehand and certainly in in pre-production with Tim when he's he's working on it before anyone even shows up uh or the actors anyway uh so you know that's it's it's hard to explain you know how how how it comes together it's really really difficult to explain actually it's a it's a unique creation I think we all knew the only Winona Ryder - Lydia way that it could work was if Tim was directing not just producing or you know and Michael and Katherine were were in it and you know were available to do it script was great Tim was you know there was like a a confidence like it we didn't feel like everyone was looking over our shoulders and like the studio was what you know like we felt like we were kind of left to to do this and so it was a really beautiful creative you know creative chaos which is just a wonderful place to be um well I think Beetlejuice is a completely unique character unlike anything anyone's everever done I mean it's it's so singular and um he's Michael is is such a brilliant actor and he's so so funny and he's so uh incredibly smart too the creativity that it took to come up with that character which I I think is collaboration of Tim and Michael but it really speaks to to both of their genius Jenna coming on was a huge a huge gift you know and huge help and I I I mean she just blows me away I she is an in incredible person I felt a lot like I was uh seeing a younger version of myself only like she's 100 times cooler it was I I think one of the most special experiences I've ever had and Catherine is such a a an uh treasure and Treasure Trove and everything that she does is is so brilliant and and I don't think any anyone can make me laugh harder than Katherine O'Hara and she's also by the way like a an incredibly uh deeply talented actress like very very much so she she's got a lot of range and she's such a lovely and thoughtful person and the same with Michael I I've um it's going to sound strange because these fist and I'm Lydia but I've never felt so safe with an actor before he is always looking out for you and he's always there for you he will always have your back and you and make sure you're comfortable it's really one of the best times I've ever had and and most I I every moment on that was I was very like I have to be present for these moments because this is so special and this does not happen yeah this movie is like a museum of Tim's mind Tim is is very specific and he's also really open and that's what's so beautiful about him is that he's he can be incredibly detailed and remain so open to I ideas or ways to play Play a scene and well what what you know what are you thinking and what like it's it's just a very you actually do feel like you're collaborating on this one I saw how much he related to Lydia which I found really moving um I didn't I don't know if I knew that on the first one um I but I I saw that on this one which I I just it made me like emotional um it still makes me emotional having been through the first one and like the effect that it had and um you know there was pressure in coming back to it but there was also like this like like I was talking about this like complete trust you have because it's Tim but also you know you know you're going into something really really brilliant and really special I feel very confident that it will match and exceed expectations it certainly did mine and mine are way up there um it's just a great it's a great time and I think it you know it absolutely deserves to be seen on a big screen for fans of of Tim's work certainly and and I just I I kind of just think it's got something for everyone actually don't think I remember the first time that I saw the film just because it was a reoccurring Jenna Ortega - Astrid presence I feel like in a lot of children's lives but I do remember I used to be a huge uh I was scared of everything when I was younger and I would have recurring nightmares of Beetlejuice where he would show up you know and he would like swing down I had bed bunks at the time and he would swing down and offer me grape juice and I sat and I watched and i r on the beach in the Sun during the winter so was and I was reading about all of these characters that I had grown up watching and had been so familiar with all my life um you know it's obviously it's different when you see the characters actually come back to life and the actors in the in the spot but I just remember feeling really really nostalgic and happy and just um excited more than anything regardless of whether or not I was going to be a part of the script I felt like it was going to be a good one for this one I Tim wanted to meet with me and we had been meeting discussing the second season of Wednesday for a while so when he asked it for me when asked for me to meet with him again I thought that we were discussing that so I had this notebook and pages of ideas that I had for the second season and then he just kind of gave me the script and we went from there and he said you know if you're interested you're interested if you're not no worries don't worry about it uh but the script was actually really really funny I remember being hesitant because you never know you know the first one is such a classic you don't want to ruin anything or mess things up but I think with the original cast coming back Tim obviously he's really really passionate about it and it's something that he's wanted to do for years and even just experience I've had on set so far I have immense stress and I feel really really good about it collaborating with Tim for the second time now I think it's pretty similar to the first time and in terms of he just trust you whoever he cast he you know you're allowed to make awful decisions and you're allowed to make funny decisions and you're allowed to he just kind of encourages you to do what you want and you'll always guide you in the in the right direction I do feel with this one he's been a little bit more particular about the way certain things go but it usually is physicality or or pacing of things or maybe when you exit just walk a little bit slower he has like a I don't know he's um very obviously excited and uh I feel he's been really really um especially creative this time around so I watched the original a couple of times when I first got out here to London uh all I know is I didn't want to feel like I was trying to do an impression cuz I think people hear Lydia Deets is you know teenage daughter and think that it's going to be the same person um and they're actually very different and I just it's important to me that people don't think that I'm trying to be Lydia in anyway so I wasn't looking for anything that I could pull or um no I just really tonally because there's so much going on in the film and it's a family movie but then it's really dark and depressing at times I didn't want to um tonally I just wanted to figure out what I was doing a little bit I think it's a little different on this one even I love Katherine I've always loved Catherine I was so excited to join the project especially knowing that she was going to be involved I I just think she's hilarious and she's a really really smart woman I feel like I've learned so much from her wona I've been a fan of for uh you know a very long time I think she's worked on some of the coolest projects I feel anytime I see a film that I'm interested in she just appears and I think ah of course she she was a part of that but she um truly has been one of the sweetest uh co-workers I've ever had I think I feel like I've learned so much from her and she's she's so giving and so vulnerable but just uh just a really really good person and I think that uh you know I I never knew if I would have the opportunity to work with her but I'm I'm really grateful and glad that I did and I would love love love kill to work with her again working with Michael uh it's the first time I've ever seen an actor completely transform once the camera started rolling he's so so funny um really really um creative but also just a really nice guy really nice guy always made sure that everyone you know felt included and uh took his time introducing himself to everybody and was so professional always asked if things were okay or what works best for you know and he he was really open to open dialogue about the the scenes or whatever ashd and Lydia asid's typical teen hates her parent um which is so strange because obviously Lydia is the coolest woman on the planet but uh yeah she really disagrees with her I think a big part of that is uh she's dealing with the loss of her father her parents split before he died I think she holds a lot of resentment and doesn't really know where to place her grief so she kind of puts it on her mom and also her mom's reputation as you know the ghost woman or you know crazy lady um really affects asid's relationship with people at school or um just uh any sort of community I think she feels really out of place and and she's okay with that if it weren't so obnoxious and I think sometimes she thinks that if her mom wasn't there a lot of her problems would go away there's definitely been a lot of moments on this set where it hasn't felt real or I've done the uh this is the coolest thing I'll I'll ever be a part of I think winter river is one of those places is where you you see it and it's I think the town also naturally just looks cartoonish and you know uh unbelievable but I again I loved this movie I still love this movie uh it's been one of my favorites one of my favorites of Tims as well just for forever so I think that um it's it's all just a very surreal experience especially that town the waiting room stuff was absolutely insane um it's weird because all of the dead bodies look really real or just really cartoonish in a way and um the makeup um people are absolutely unrecognizable I don't know how they do it it looks like it came off of Tim's paper um but it's really really I think because you're so used to I've been so used to seeing that on screen and not experiencing it in real life often times what you see on set looks so different than what you see on camera but here you're getting exactly what what you're seeing in the final product which is really really uh confusing been amazing it's just been really really wonderful it's been really I it's such a privilege and and again I I I don't know what I did to be in this position or be on this project but uh I feel like I'm thinking my lucky stars for it every day just because I am it's it's like a dream come true and I'm working with all of these people that I've respected and admired and looked up to for years and they've all been so wonderful I get to work with one of my favorite directors again which is incredible um I get to kind of be silly in a way where you know I I I feel like a lot of the projects that I've done recently I'm someone who's just traumatized or in this one you kind of laugh at the trauma or just kind of shrug it off uh so it's been definitely a change of a nice change of pace for me and um I as the days go by and we're getting closer and closer to rapping I find myself already feeling nostalgic for the experience and just um really really grateful it's happened it's got the same great loose fun vibe that the Catherine O'Hara - Delia first movie had and that comes from the top you know Tim and his great producers who let him do what he does best yeah no she's lovely and she's so uh her voice has not changed much yeah and her she's she's really I think she's done a beautiful job being consistent with you know the Lydia we knew for many many years ago and Mike too just looks like he's in heaven he of course didn't have to worry about aging because be juice has been dead forever it didn't matter I kind of see I think dilia sees asid as a you know a fresh new Lydia and uh you know just kind of dry and dark and you know looking around like the world isn't near as cool as she is and and uh but she is I think we we have found Jen and I have found fun ways to connect definitely on Lydia's relationship with Rory I think we both see the reality of that we're kind of letting her be letting Lydia find her way but um we've connected on that definitely and uh and I I think you know because I think this too I think Lydia finds her funny too and entertaining in a way it's entertaining to watch Lydia take the same crap from master that I took from Lydia you know so maybe it's just me but I think Lydia finds her very entertaining yeah she's and she's such a cool girl Jenna she's lovely really um intelligent young girl uh she's really professional is aware of everything that's going on in the set and really you know sometimes reminds me of what's going on in the scene right that's where we are You Can Tell She's Got a great relationship with Tim it's fun to watch them together yeah it's very cool yeah she's cool yeah when you have a good script then you know it just gives you ideas you know when something's not well written it just closes your brain down but when something's well written you know and they're great inspiring ideas in there then yeah it makes you want to try things Tim was and is uh so uh clear about what he wants and so creative and you can tell he is seeing it all he is seeing it all he's just trying to express to us this amazing Vision that he has and he does Express but expresses his need as much as he needs to but you can just tell there's so much going on in his mind and it's really just inspiring to work around somebody who is that creative and has that much creative thought going on and uh you know he's so inventive and and he's so excited about what he's doing it's great to see him as happy on this set as he was on the original well from my point of view Dil is a sensitive wonderful artist uh who loves and misses her husband you know 35 years later whatever it is uh dilia and Lydia finally get along and now there's ASD to take dilla's place I think it's karma for Lydia to deal with ASD the way I deal with the way I had to deal with Lydia yeah when non and I were like we we held on to each other walking onto the house set you know because too my husband designed the original and and this production designer has said was very aware of that he came and talked to me about it and uh you know he was respectful of Bo's work but he also is he's doing amazing sets on this really really art Department doing a beautiful beautiful job but no instantly fun and Tim is so collaborative too which is just it's always wonderful to have somebody who makes you feel like you have something good to offer you know and right from the beginning as soon as you know he sent the scripts it was you know he wanted notes and he wanted our ideas and all of us and that's just lovely to know that you're part of it you know you're part of this great creation and Michael was so kind has an Monica Bellucci - Delores amazing energy and was beautiful to see uh the creative uh connection between Tim and Michael through the years and I have to say also that um I'm so honored to be part of this amazing in cast and to enter into Tim's fantastic and magical world his vision is so personal so unique and his characters are often um naive they have naive and childlike qualities and even the villain are most of the time um unintentionally disruptive and there is so much substance for for an actor in his fairy tales he also very magic to get in those kind of sets because you are in a fantastic world right away and this really helps as an actor to get into the role and and because is is a magical situation even for you as an actor and it doesn't happen all the time to have the chance to work in those kind of movies and um my character's name is Dolores and she's a soul sucking demon in the afterlife and while be Jews hunts everybody she hunts him I felt really like a MIM and is really a body language so she has another way to express herself and uh of course the costume made an amazing work uh Colleen she's just what she does is so impressive and this really helped me to to get into the part a lot and um and so really and also the makeup you know it took like three hours every day to make this makeup but really in in this car for this character makeup and and costumes really create ated the character I I mean just because I saw the first one I saw I I really thought that could be magic to do a second one and I know that there are different Generations they want to see this movie because the world of Tim is a kind of fantasy world that all different Generations love you know children or adults because uh is a kind of universe that touches all the souls in a very profound way oh Catherine she's so sweet and a beautiful human being and uh and as I told you before I'm really honored to be part of this amazing cast and Jor we know n writer and William defo Danny deito um and Justin tho so um I'm so really honored and and happy to have the chance to work with these amazing actors I knew that everyone was coming back for it and with all sequels you kind of go you know on the first Justin Theroux - Rory page you're a little bit trepidacious thinking oh I don't know cuz it's such a beloved film and then I just remember being so impressed with how dense and how funny and how sort of well thought out it was you know um and I also just love that they they didn't it's not a reinvention it's not a um you know a reboot of any sort it's really just sort of in chronological order 30 years later or whatever it is um the telling of the story of where these people are at and you know obviously where Beetlejuice is filming anything with Keaton is astounding I mean first of all just seeing him in the makeup for the first time is pretty impressive because you just go it's it it doesn't look like obviously he's aged a second um the makeup when you look at it is so lowii in a way like it's just sort of dark eyes like white face it's like a it's part clown part dead person I guess um so just being opposite and then hearing him do that voice is just thrilling like you just kind of go I'm now in this Beetlejuice movie and I don't know there's just you know I'm not too old to not be completely tickled by that um and just watching his process he's very um specific so he he'll sort of you know between takes he'll sort of be running the scene in his head sort of stood still going okay he sort of mumbles the lines and then sort of action and then he just sort of animates and it's it's an incredibly high as the first one was it's an incredibly high energy performance where it's just sort of the schizophrenic quick cut kind of thing so any scene with him was fabulous you know like to watch you know him work I did have that sort of couple of those Pinch Me moments you know um just watching him do his thing well I mean Katherine O'Hara needless to say makes me laugh all the time um and it's my first time working with her too so I had the added benefit of um being able to just Plum her for all of all the questions of you know all every single movie that she's ever worked on um obviously notably Christopher Guest movies which I love and every single one of her performances in those so that's sort of one of those great things where I'm sort of quietly like she I don't wouldn't tell her this but I'm sort of quietly interviewing her of all the things that I want to know about her life and career and performances you know um and she's just hilariously funny I mean all this I was actually it's she's the one actress who's or one person in the movie that I actually went made sure I got to go see scenes that I wasn't even a part of because I wanted to sort of see what she she's doing in them Winona I mean she's I mean what can you say I've worked with her once before I love Winona um she I mean there's a lot I could say about her she's she is one of those people that she has an odd approach in scene she's like okay she really needs to sort of see what is going on in the scene what's happening here and and and then all of a sudden once you yell action and you're looking at the monitor or something you're like oh my God she's just this crazy movie star she's so good and dialed in um also hilarious and also just has the legacy of having you know she did I don't know how old she was when she did the movie how old was she yeah she was like a teenager so just to see her in that get up again it was another one of those sort of Pinch Me moments you're like oh my God I'm standing across from you know like she's just fabulous you know Jenna is hilarious she's got this very sort of dry she's perfect you know um this sort of very Ry dry delivery which I just find very funny there's I only have a couple scenes with her but um she's kind of not the same obviously but she's sort of exactly who you would expect the child of Lydia Deets to be in that she's sort of wildly disillusioned um she's actually her storyline is one of my favorites in the in the story itself you know and I think I also did like a a walk around of the various stages and all the um sets that had already been built um or some the ones that were already you know built and ready to be shot and that I was just so blown away sort of walking around it sort of like going into a museum of Tim's mind and seeing all the way everything had been realized and the signage and the it's just every set that you know I've I haven't been to every single set but you know the subway set I made sure the Soul Train Set I made sure I got to walk around you know when no one was on it it's just incredible you know you can't can't believe how much imagination has gone into it it's all just kind of goofing around so and it's been like all great films that you enjoy doing there's been a lot of laughter sort of between takes you know with Katherine Jenna went Ona Willam you know I mean such an incredible cast you know I came into the set one day when we were shooting the church scene and I like just looked at our gr they had this little tent set up for course where they had chairs and it was like Jen Ortega you know William defo Monica beluchi Winona ryer you know Michael Kat like and we're all just and I just thought wow this is a deep bench of great actors he's clearly got an incredible visual style you know um everything even the sets are just so specific so you obviously see his thumb prints sort of smeared all over everything you know so it's it's it's been really fun I really enjoy it's also been kind of a great job because I've I sort of had had the time to sort of just be watching it happen and and then being in it it's not you know I don't have the weight of the movie on my shoulders like the same way that Michael does um yeah it's been great like he's he's an incredibly memorable director to work with I usually approach every comedy like it's a drama um I got to dial up at least in performance a little bit sort of you know you don't want to obviously wink at anything and or sort of lean into jokes too hard but um yeah I really did sort of make a commitment early on with Tim um that you know that he's just kind of in his own movie you know and it's the sort of romantic love story of of Rory and Lydia um and sort of to the exclusion of everybody else um and so yeah it was I sort of I approached every sort of Comedy like it's like I'm playing it for real you know um with a maybe a little wink cuz with Beetlejuice I think or the film itself you can you get a little bit of permission to be broader you know um or a little bit more breathless I guess yeah me and um Jenna are I think the only additions to it um yeah but I was also keenly aware of sort of the legacy of it and wanting to make sure that I didn't you know the last thing you want to do is sort of step out in front of anything that is being established with Beetlejuice or Lydia or deia um but yeah I defin I felt like the new kid but a very welcomed new kid Michael kon's fun um of course he knows this character in and out so I'm kind of Willem Dafoe - Jackson visiting to serve His World um he's cool he's very sweet guy and he's very fluid and of course they know each other uh from various movies so they've got a Shand so uh to be in the room with them is to be in the room with people that are excited to be back together uh you know uh playing around so it it was real pleasure it had such incredible detail all the sets are really Fantastical and and incredible detail uh and fun just to browse around you know I always feel like uh when the world is really complete it really helps you to know uh you know it sets the rules for the pretending it tells you how to behave and here as Fantastical as the sets are as unrealistic as they are they've got such detail and such um such a sense of purpose and and color and everything that once you get there you say oh I I I I know what this scene is about you know you always get scared when someone does something that's a spin-off or a or a sequel or prequel or something connected with a uh material from so long ago but it was cool that they had a lot of the original people involved and I thought it was a fun and and clever uh way to revisit the material and then of course the um additions of like uh uh Jenna and and myself and some other people uh I thought this this is good this is alive this is a a good uh revisiting of the material well you know because there were people returning from the original one and uh they had relationships and also I really I've got a a supporting role in this yeah I'm on their Turf but that's okay um I'm happy to do it and I'm happy to come and uh you know be part of of their world so just by the nature of the role uh yeah you feel like the new kid but uh somewhere I always feel like the new kid when you ask me what my favorite scene was that's hard and this is was a scene that I'm not even involved in but uh the is it the Immigration Center like where they're accepting all the people that have died and are coming to be uh you know accepted into the afterworld that was pretty fantastic and it's inhabited with all these people that of course they're kind of wearing the causes of their death you know so it's it's pretty amusing and uh beautiful and and intricate and uh funny and and so for me Tim Burton - director / producer then you start to use your own life experience what you know you start out you know you're an interesting teenager what happens to you when you become an adult what do you do you have children what are your relationships like what what have you become you know and so it was quite emotional for me to kind of revisit those characters and because you know things happen to all of us as we get older and change relationships children whatever and so that was the sort of the nucleus of it for me that that that got me back interested in it what happened to the Deets family in your first early movies there's something about them that is just different because you're new to it and and and also you know I work with different kind of Technology but the sort of you know working with live effects and puppets and and makeup and sets it just was it's just part of the spirit of what that movie was you know and and and there's an energy to that and and a and a a spontaneousness to it I mean even though we're dealing with live effects uh we still were kind of making it up as we went along in some cases it was great I mean honestly it was so like for me I was strangely emotional seeing them and seeing them all together again and you know I I but that's what made it a special thing it's fun for me you know what I mean it's stuff that's not on the page comes to life it's things that there was a lot of that going on she really sort of really helped with her character and with weona the same thing it was so just again because that character for me was why I kind of got back into it you know that was a character Lydia that that just just spoke to me and and that's why all these years later it's like okay I was that character what happened to me what happened to her what what how did where did you go right where did you go wrong what happens in life as you get old all that kind sort of thing so that was uh that I think that was the thing that really was the thing that that that that hooked me emotionally back into it well again he working with Michael again it's it's that sort of back and forth I mean he's like a he he's got such an energy and such a an interesting T so it's it's kind of like working with a prize fighter so it's like okay let's try do this and that and but he's just very clever and he's very funny and he's very good you know so I it's like you get something back when you work with people people like him or all these people everybody you know it's like they're not just take doing they they're giving back something and there's a back and forth which is which is which is very exciting to work with well she's great I mean I love Jenna you know and she you know I just have a a a connection with her and she's just I I I'm always impressed I was impressed on Wednesday I was impressed on his what she can do she just brings another perspective to it she's in the world but it's it's it's very crucial role because it's like kind of commenting on the whole thing as well so she really brings a a gravity to it and and and and and fits right in and adds more to it you know which is is is extremely important you that's the thing that that's what again what I loved about it it just felt like a very real relationship to me you know having experienced kids myself you there there's a that that Dynamic that that's quite not always but but quite common the differences between parents and children mothers and daughters you know it's interesting you know everybody I mean you know especially on this movie I mean everybody contributed and and and I love that you know I mean the script was like a blueprint and it was sort of there so that we weren't all going like what what's going on so there was a nice again it reminded me the first one well that was interesting going back there to to Vermont because uh we kind of go what happened you know is it all built up and it was actually strangely exactly the same it was weird again it was like you wouldn't go like this was 35 years later you go oh we were here like last week and so it was very very strange but again it was because that was part of the vibe the how that place was a little bit of a character and it was so it was again it was like working with the people is it was an emotional thing to go back there and it was it it sort of it added something for me and any way to to to to to re-experience that place well I just like I said I I love stop motion I start out doing that when I was you know uh I love it you know again it's a tactile medium that just something that uh like I said in the spirit of the other just those are the kind of things that make you make me enjoy movies is the the real the tactile the sets the people that you know and and all being there so it's just part of that spirit oh I worked with them before mckinon and Saunders they you know worked on every Corpse Bride and Frank and weeny they done you know so they there's people that I know up in Manchester and they're great they do beautiful work in here it's exciting it's like you go walk in you see the puppets being made and built and stuff so again it gives you a certain kind of energy that you don't get in other mediums this