Winona Ryder Reveals What Young Lydia Would Think Of Her Character In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Winona Ryder waited more than 30 years for a "Beetlejuice" sequel, so she's had a lot of time to think about how Lydia Deetz' life would go. We asked her what the young version of her character would think about how she turned out in the long-awaited sequel "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice."
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00:00Hi congratulations on the film. Thank you. So I think one of the benefits to a sequel this long
00:04later is you can actually lean into the passage of time. So yeah. So but would young Lydia,
00:11seeing older Lydia in like a vacuum, like be disappointed in what she sees? Oh my god that's
00:17I that's a really interesting question. I think certainly I never pictured Lydia
00:28either having children or in any type of relationship. I just always thought she was
00:35just probably like in her own world as she got older, just sort of like in the attic and you
00:43know, happy, but you know, alone. And so that was the big challenge was, you know, who is she now?
00:56And I when I first read it, like she has a show like it was it was hard to imagine. But I think
01:04once we got there and like once Jenna and I bonded and once Justin came on board and you
01:12you kind of remember like you've I mean I think everyone who's like as as old as I am now like
01:21we've all been in those things where you're just like, what was I thinking? You know,
01:27like in terms of the relationship I have. But I think I don't know what young Lydia I don't
01:35think she would ever have expected to be in front of a camera. You know, that that that was,
01:44that was a challenge, I think. And speaking of the passage of time, like I'm so curious,
01:48you worked with Tim Burton at the very start of his career, and now you're working after like
01:52before Tim Burton was a brand. And now you say Tim Burton, you have these images in your head.
01:57So has he changed as a director, especially for actors?
02:01Actually, no, not at all. And that's what I find so amazing was when we did the first one,
02:10you know, it was I was 15. It was such a weird script. I it was everything was so sort of
02:22strange and and and it we never felt like, like the studio giving note was giving notes. I don't
02:31even remember meeting anyone from the studio. We were just sort of it was kind of under the radar
02:36feeling and very sort of intimate and, and playful. And I think it's like, so it blows my
02:46mind how he was able to completely recreate that. And even with all of this sort of buzz or
02:55anticipation, and how much people love the original, like, you would think that you would be
03:03getting a lot of there, you would be feeling the pressure. And but somehow he, it's like he has this
03:11sort of, like, he creates this sort of womb where you feel completely, like, it's like opposing
03:19ideas, but you feel complete freedom. And like to try, try things and you trust him. I mean,
03:27I trust him 1000%. I know he's not going to use something that doesn't work. And at the same time,
03:33you feel safe in the best way, because you know, he won't, you know, you know, he has a vision. And,
03:40and so he was, but he was the same, he had that same energy, which I think, you know, he's talked
03:48about wanting to get back to that. And he really managed to do that. It was really, really
03:56incredible. I was, I mean, I did work with him in between. And, and I've known him, oh, my God, I
04:05mean, I've known him since I was 15. And, and he, his energy and the way he gets inspired, like,
04:15in the moment, oh, my, you know, what do you think of this? What do you know, like,
04:19it's, it's, it's infectious. And I think, yeah, he, he, he's also incredibly protective
04:28of Lydia. And I always so appreciated that so much.