Will Winona Ryder ever cameo in Wednesday season 2? Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Jenna Ortega weighs in

Sep. 2, 2024

Exclusive: The star of Netflix’s Addams Family spin-off series says she’d “love to work with Winona again” after Beetlejuice 2

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Pop culture’s favorite goth girls, Wednesday Addams and Lydia Deetz, have more in common than just iconic bangs and a love of black these days…

They’re pretty intrinsically linked, really, withBeetlejuice Beetlejuice’s Tim Burton directing the former’s very own Netflix show – and with Burton’s frequent big-screen collaborator Winona Ryder starring in the streamer’s hit sci-fi Stranger Things, it’s not hard to imagine a world where she pops up in The Addams Family spin-off.

With that,GamesRadar+andInside Total Filmasked Jenna Ortega whether we’ll ever see Ryder cameo inWednesday season 2, to which she candidly replied: “Man, that would be cool, but that girl is so busy. She really has no time, even trying to get to get together to do this, you know, it was [tricky].

“So I don’t know about that but obviously, I would love to work with Winona again, and if it’s not on Wednesday, then it’s going to be on something else, I hope,” she continues. “We talk about it all the time, and that would be really sweet for me.”

Ryder is currently filmingStranger Things season 5, which is set to be the show’s final chapter. Burton and Ortega are similarly shooting the second installment of Wednesday, which the latter says washugely influenced by Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death. (Who remembers when Michael Keaton’s titular ghost refers to Lydia as the poet’s daughter in Beetlejuice?! Just saying…)

In long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which releases on September 6, Ortega plays Lydia’s daughter Astrid. 36 years on from the events of the original, the new flick sees the Deetzes return to Winter River, Connecticut after Charles Deetz (Jeffrey Jones) passes away suddenly. There, Lydia and co are forced to summon the eponymous bio-exorcist when Astrid gets caught up in some afterlife-related drama…

While we wait, check out our picks of the most excitingupcoming moviesheading our way. Listen out for more of our chat with Ortega on the upcoming episode of the Inside Total Film podcast, which is available onApple,Audioboom,Spotify, and more.

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