“You really did feel like they were after you,” Ortega says of her stop-motion animated co-star.
Jenna OrtegaandWinona Ryderare opening up about working with a certain costar onBeetlejuice Beetlejuice: the giant Sandworm.
“I think it’s common knowledge [that] it’s really hard to run in the sand.
The Sandworm of ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.Warner Bros.
I used to have dreams where you’re running in the sand, so it was that.”
“So he showed me some of his sketches of the Sandworms.”
The creatures also featured in the animatedBeetlejuicekids show that premiered in 1989 and the Broadway musical adaptation.
Jenna Ortega’s Astrid and Winona Ryder’s Lydia flee from a Sandworm in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.Warner Bros.
Burton actively wanted to bring that back, including for the Sandworm element.
“It needed a back-to-basics, handmade quality,“the filmmaker previously told EW.
“It reenergized why I love making movies.”
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