INYIM Media Chit Chat Corner: Michael Keaton’s ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Return Came W/ One Specific Condition.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton says he had a certain condition that needed to be met for his character in the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 classic.
Director Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice sequel opens in theaters on September 6. Joining Keaton in his return as the “Ghost with the Most” are his original Beetlejuice castmates Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O’Hara as her stepmother Delia Deetz and Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter, Astrid Deetz. The film also stars Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux.
According to GQ, Keaton’s zany bio-exorcist character had only 17 minutes of screen time in the original Beetlejuice. As such, Keaton’s unique condition for his character’s return for Beetlejuice 2 was that he had the same sort of reduced presence for the benefit of the film as a whole.”
