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She was definitely determined to do whatever it took to be part of the adventure. If some had lost hope for a sequel to Beetlejuice, Winona Ryder seemed convinced deep down that it would happen sooner or later.
After recently revealing in an interview for Harpar Bazaar that she was secretly meeting Tim Burton to develop this much-desired and yet complicated sequel, she also confided to the same media that she accepted her role in Stranger Things on condition of having the possibility of leaving the shoot for that of Beetlejuice 2. A blackmail that the Duffer brothers, creators of the Netflix series, could not resist. We do not say no to Beetlejuice 2. Returning to her emblematic characters in video, the actress explains this clause:
“At the time, Tim Burton and I were already talking about a sequel to Beetlejuice. There were many times over the last fifteen years when we thought it was going to happen. But that's the thing too… It had to please everybody for it to happen. I remember when I first met the Duffer brothers, I said to them 'as long as you let me go if Beetlejuice 2 gets made, I'm fine with that.' And they agreed. And luckily, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice happened and it worked. That was my only condition.”
In Stranger ThingsWinona Ryder plays Joyce Byers, Will and Jonathan's mother. A key character, she is also the girlfriend of Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) and had gone to Russia to look for him in the last season. As the actress admits in the interview, Joyce is the first character she has played for so long – ten years to be exact.
Leaving Joyce aside for a while, Winona Ryder has taken on the role that made her famous, Lydia – and she’s all grown up. They both have one thing in common: they’re mothers and will do anything to save their children. In the case of the young goth teenager turned adult, to get her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) out of trouble, she’ll have to wake up the bio-exorcist of her dreams (or rather, nightmares) played by none other than Michael Keaton.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be released in theaters on September 11, while the fifth and final season of Stranger Things will be available on Netflix in 2025.
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