00:00It's been incredible, and to be a part of something like Beetlejuice that was so influential on me as a person, and also so many people, it's kind of too much to comprehend, I think.
00:11Who's Beetlejuice?
00:13Don't ever say that name!
00:15Beetlejuice.
00:17No!
00:17Astrid! I am serious!
00:19If you say his name three times, he will appear.
00:24Beetlejuice.
00:27The juice is loose.
00:28Let me start with you. What is it like for you to be with these two legends in such an iconic sequel?
00:34It's unbelievable. I still can't believe it. I feel so lucky to be here and to have had that experience, because, you know, they're giants in what they do, so I learned so much from them.
00:43They're also just really sweet, funny people. I have such a good time when they're around.
00:49So it's been incredible, and to be a part of something like Beetlejuice that was so influential on me as a person, and also so many people, it's kind of too much to comprehend, I think.
01:01Yeah, I had such a formative experience being so young, being terrified by the snake at, like, eight years old when I first watched Super Beetlejuice.
01:05Yeah, the snake's good.
01:07The little snake's good.
01:08How old were you?
01:08Like, eight years old. Yeah, it's like, that really sticks with you.
01:11But it was funny, too, right?
01:13Yeah.
01:13Like, this movie is scary, funny, scary, funny, scary.
01:16Yes. For you, Sue, being back, was it intimidating being back on set, making a sequel to such an iconic film that meant so much to so many people?
01:24For me, it was intimidating or scary leading up to it, but once we got on the set, didn't it feel different?
01:29Because in every conversation with Tim, just more and more, he made me convinced, he convinced me that he knew it was going to be good.
01:37Yeah. He just seemed so confident, didn't he?
01:39I know.
01:39And he kept saying, you know, we're going to work it out. It's not all there. We're going to work it out. It's going to be okay.
01:43He was so open to ideas, whatever you want to give. You know, got any ideas for your gallery show? I want to hear them. You know, just anything and everything.
01:50He could talk about your character.
01:52Sorry?
01:53I wondered, like, is that a technique to make us feel...
01:57Yeah, but he actually listens.
01:59No, he actually uses your ideas.
02:01It's very rare that you have that.
02:07I'd say it's like these two sort of, with Tim, it's like, there's this sort of freedom and collaboration and inclusiveness, but you also feel really safe.
02:18Yeah.
02:19You know, because you know, I was so moved of how protective of Lydia he was.
02:26Like, I didn't realize, you know, that he had identified with her on the first one. I remember I read that or saw him say that and I was so, it made me emotional.
02:40But he's very protective of our characters, you know.
02:45But he wants to, you know, yeah, it was so special to feel that way because on the first one, it was the first time I felt included, you know, that I was asked, like, well, what do you think?
03:01You know, when you're young, you're not often asked that. You're just sort of, at least I was sort of like, there's your mark and there's your cue.
03:11But it was so, it had that spirit and that was just so beautiful.
03:17It's just the way it works, isn't it?
03:18Yeah.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Doing all of the casting reviews today, I feel like the number one thing that kept popping up was just how much fun that you had when the cameras were not rolling.
03:25Yeah.
03:26And, Catherine, I heard your hoot, I heard your hoot that you were always trying to make Justin laugh.
03:30He was like, I can't even, he's like, I can't even look at Justin.
03:33I can't even look at Catherine.
03:34I tell everyone how funny he is.
03:36Really? I was going to ask, who's the funniest in the cast? Who made you laugh the hardest?
03:40He really made me laugh.
03:41Yeah, I knew I would break if I looked at him during certain sequences that we were shooting.
03:45Jenna actively avoided him.
03:48So intensely cheesy.
03:49Avoided eye contact.
03:50Yeah.
03:51We would sometimes look at each other like, no, we can't look at each other.
03:54It was because, like, you could see his ponytail waving in the wind.
03:56I know.
03:57It was trying to scare me down.
03:59And his voice.
04:00The voice is so, so good.
04:01Oh, yeah, the voice is great.
04:02He's so, so good.
04:03But just his sincere cheesiness.
04:05Yeah.
04:06That was really good.
04:07I love it.
04:08He just goes on riffs.
04:09One of the best I remember is him acting like a cheeseball actor, talking about the power he has on a set.
04:16It's intimidating to other actors.
04:18He's too good at it.
04:20So funny.
04:21Well, speaking of character Jenna, I also want to ask you, I feel like I got a little hint of Wednesday.
04:25Is there anything that you learned from Wednesday that you brought to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
04:29No.
04:30Really?
04:31No, I really don't think so.
04:34I mean, I think obviously it's Tim's world, so I think that, you know, things in the universe kind of naturally, you know, kind of can be similar at times.
04:43Or, you know, like a lot of my lines were nasty or bitter, and, you know, that's like Wednesday's whole thing.
04:49But for the most part, I think a lot of what was based in Astrid was just kind of the experience that she had had growing up, you know, not being very close to her mom.
04:59Yeah.
05:00Being sent away to a boarding school.
05:01Losing her father.
05:02Her parents getting divorced.
05:03There's just like a lot of resentment.
05:05I think she was just kind of mad at the world.
05:07Yeah.
05:08I think she's actually quite a normal person, but I think sometimes that stress and not knowing where to put it or place it is kind of where her nastiness came from.
05:15Where Wednesday, she just kind of, she does it for the pleasure of it all.
05:19Right.
05:20The pleasure of it all.
05:21Yeah, I loved so much what Jenna brought, because, you know, she, it's completely unique.
05:29It's so unique.
05:32And it really made me think a lot about what art, you know, like it made sort of my making.
05:43I mean, I have to have a back story.
05:46I do it these days.
05:47Right, right.
05:48She said that.
05:49And so, like, you know, it was just very, very unique, and it was great.
05:56And it helped me a lot, you know.
06:00Yeah, I swear, like, I have that, like, what do you think?
06:05Like, if I try, what do you think if I try this?
06:08Like, you know, I learned a lot from her.
06:11I love it.
06:12And speaking of other shows we love, I also, I know Beetlejuice is opening up this, you know, a new world, but we're also closing a chapter with Stranger Things.
06:18Yeah.
06:19How was the final season?
06:20How was that wrap up for you?
06:21We're still filming.
06:23Still filming.
06:25Yeah, till the end of the year.
06:28So, how's it going to be for you to say goodbye to that?
06:32I don't know.
06:33I mean, you know, it's going to be bittersweet.
06:38You know, it's going to be bittersweet.
06:43Yeah, yeah.
06:44We're going to be sad, too.
06:46But also it is the 10th year that, which is wild.
06:51I could never, I never imagined it would, you know, it's sort of like Beetlejuice.
06:57Like, I don't think any of us anticipated that show becoming what.
07:02I did.
07:03You did?
07:04Oh, I said in about 36 years, we're going to do another one.
07:06Yeah, I said it.
07:10Catherine, what do you remember most from filming the first one?
07:13Like, what sticks out?
07:14What's the memory?
07:16Meeting my husband.
07:17But, yeah, probably had to go.
07:19Yeah.
07:21Oh, just how fun it was.
07:24I'm keeping, I wish I, I've got to think of a better word than fun.
07:26I just sound like a, someone who goes around and takes jobs to have fun.
07:30What are we doing today?
07:33But it really, I guess I look for that.
07:36And it was there every day.
07:38The first one, I just remember laughing with Tim about anything and everything.
07:43And poor Glenn Shattuck.
07:45He played Otho.
07:47I'm telling you, no one.
07:48He was like the social director of the cast.
07:50He kept us together for years.
07:52He would be calling us and trying to get us together.
07:54And writing us letters.
07:55I loved getting letters from Glenn.
07:57No one would be more in heaven doing the second movie than Glenn.
08:03I'm so sorry.
08:04I know.
08:06But, yeah, the friends we made.
08:08But just every day.
08:09Honestly, every day was fun.
08:10That dinner scene, the day I was seen.
08:12The guys under our table wearing shrimp gloves to grab our faces.
08:16Why do I feel like Moira Rose would also love Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
08:19Moira Rose.
08:20I feel like she would love Beetlejuice.
08:21I don't know why I didn't get the role.
08:26Maybe you'll have.
08:30Amazing.
08:31Y'all are so iconic.
08:32Thank you so much for your time.
08:33This was so fun.
08:34We love the film.
08:35We're so excited for everything.
08:36So nice to meet you guys.
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