Warning: This article contains spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
While Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Featuring plenty of nods to classic Tim Burton movies, the sequel also includes a subtle reference to one of Star Jenna Ortegas other main roles. Jenna Ortega has made a name for herself as a horror icon in recent years, starting with her supporting role in 2020’s The Babysitter: Killer Queen. This was followed by a role in the 2022 Ti West slasher X And a major role in 2022 screamA reboot of the iconic meta-slasher series. Later that year, Ortega cemented her genre legend status with Tim Burton Addams Family Spinoff Wednesday.
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In 2023, Ortega reprized the role of scream 2022’s heroine Tara in Shout VI. 2024s Beetlejuice Sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Is her first horror movie since that slasher sequel and, like Shout VI, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has proven a huge hit with audiences and critics alike. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s ending leaves the door open to a third installment in Tim Burton’s horror comedy series, and that seems much more likely after the movie’s $330 million success. Fit enough, one Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Scene features a hidden nod to one of the star’s most lucrative earlier roles.
Jenna Ortega’s Astrid makes a Scream reference in Beetlejuice 2
Astrid refers to the iconic painting that inspired Scream’s Ghostface
in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceOrtega’s Astrid recalls the fact that she dressed up as Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” in second grade for Halloween. The gag is an indirect nod to her roles in Scream 2022 And Shout VISince The scream The franchise’s iconic Ghostface costume is based on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” Munch’s painting provided the visual inspiration for the franchise’s killer, who wears a mask that the original movie reveals is a cheap generic Halloween costume available from “E”Their fifteenth in the state.” Astrid’s choice of costume is fitting, given Ortega’s history with the franchise.
Ortega has already starred in enough iconic screen roles for Burton’s sequel to have various Easter eggs referencing her screen oeuvre.
Although Ortega did not play Ghostface in any of these scream Movies in which she starred, she is still a suspect in both slasher movies. later, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice References Ortega S Wednesday role with a nod to her viral dance scene from the Netflix series. Despite her youth, Ortega has already starred in enough iconic screen roles for Burton’s sequel to have various Easter eggs referencing her screen work. There are also nods to Disney and Netflix, the former of which was Burton’s earliest Hollywood employer and the latter of which produced seasons 1 and 2 of Wednesday.
Scream isn’t the only past role of Jenna Ortega referenced in Beetlejuice 2
Beetlejuice 2 also references Burton and Ortega’s earlier collaboration Wednesday
The most obvious to Ortega’s role in Wednesday comes in the form of Beetlejuice Beetlejuices reference to its dance scene, but there are more. It is an audience member of Lydia Detz’s television show Ghost house Who resembles WednesdayPugsley’s brother, and a darker one Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Easter egg that borrows from the Addams Family Spinoff. Like Ortega Wednesday Love Interest Taylor, Astrid S Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Love interest Jeremy is also revealed to be a duplicate villain at the end of the movie. so, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Creams in nod to not one, but two iconic earlier roles of Jenna Ortegas impressive back catalog.