00:00Jenna Ortega is weighing in on the trend of remaking iconic films with female leads.
00:05During an interview about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, MTV host Josh Horwitz asked Ortega if she would
00:11be interested in starring in a sequel to another one of director Tim Burton's classics, like Edward
00:15Scissorhands, which could hypothetically be called Edith Scissorhands with Ortega in the Johnny Depp
00:20role. While Ortega and her co-star Catherine O'Hara initially found the idea funny, Ortega went on to
00:26I love that there's a lot more female leads nowadays. I think that's so special,
00:30but we should have our own. I don't like it when it's like a spinoff. Like,
00:34I don't want to see, like, Jamie Bond, you know? Like, I want to see just, like, another badass."
00:39Longtime James Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli previously expressed a view that echoes
00:43Ortega's take. She told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021,
00:56She continued,
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