Jenna Ortega is weighing in on the trend of remaking iconic films with female leads. During an interview about 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' MTV host Josh Horowitz asked Ortega if she would be interested in starring in a sequel to another one of director Tim Burton's classics, like 'Edward Scissorhands,' which could hypothetically be called 'Edith Scissorhands' with Ortega in the Johnny Depp role.
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 Horowitz asked Ortega if she would be interested in starring in a sequel to another one of director Tim Burton's classics, like Edward Scissorhands, which could hypothetically be called Edith Scissorhands with Ortega in the Johnny Depp role.
00:21While Ortega and her co-star Catherine O'Hara initially found the idea funny, Ortega went on to add this.
00:26I love that there's a lot more female leads nowadays, I think that's so special, but we should have our own. I don't like it when it's like a spinoff, like I 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 Ortega's take. She told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021,
00:47I think the next James Bond will be a man because I don't think a woman should play James Bond. I believe in making characters for women and not just having women play men's roles.
00:56She continued, I don't think there are enough great roles for women, and it's very important to me that we make movies for women about women. He should be British, so British can be any ethnicity or race.
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