Jenna Ortega looked devilishly delightful in a blood red ensemble as she continued to promote Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The actress, 21, who stars as Astrid Deetz in the movie, showed off her quirky sense of style as she headed to the London photocall on Friday in a plunging maroon blazer that flashed her scarlet bra.
She teamed the garment with eye-catching red tights, while towering platform heels gave her frame a boost.
Jenna added to the look with a pair of crimson sunglasses and styled her raven locks in a ponytail.
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 fantasy comedy horror film Beetlejuice.
Jenna Ortega looked devilishly delightful in a blood red ensemble as she continued to promote Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in London on Friday
The actress, 21, who stars as Astrid Deetz in the movie, showed off her quirky sense of style as she headed to the photocall in a plunging maroon blazer that flashed her scarlet bra
The sequel sees Catherine O’Hara, 70, Winona Ryder, 52, and Michael Keaton, 72, all reprising their roles, 35 years on.
In May, Beetlejuice fans were sent into a frenzy when the first trailer for the long-awaited sequel was released, with Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton and Catherine O’ Hara reprising their roles.
Years have passed since the events of the original film, and now Lydia Deetz (Winona) is a mother to a teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna).
Lydia assumed she would never hear from the mischievous entity ever again – until her daughter comes across an advertisement for a ‘Bio Exorcist’ in their attack.
It is Astrid who ends up bringing Beetlejuice back by saying his name three times despite the stern warnings of her mother.
Viewers are then shown snippets of their wild ride into the underworld, where they meet a slew of new faces played by Justin Theroux and Willem Dafoe.
Burton’s real-life girlfriend, Monica Bellucci, also stars as Beetlejuice’s wife.
The director previously told Entertainment Weekly that seeing Michael in character again after all this time was ‘a weird out-of-body experience.’
‘He just got back into it,’ explained the director. ‘It was kind of scary for somebody who was maybe not that overly interested in doing it.’
She teamed the garment with eye-catching red tights, while towering platform heels gave her frame a boost as she teetered along
Jenna added to the look with a pair of crimson sunglasses and styled her raven locks in a ponytail
He continued: ‘It was such a beautiful thing for me to see all the cast, but he, sort of like demon possession, just went right back into it.’
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice will be released on September 6.
For some Beetlejuice fans, and Winona herself, returning to the iconic franchise may seem like a full circle moment, with the actress herself admitting that she sees much of her character Lydia in her own personal troubles.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar ahead of the film’s release, she said: ‘In my 30s, I had two disastrous relationships that were—they weren’t wrong, but this was before you would ever think to Google someone.
‘When I look back, I’m like, ”What the hell was I thinking?” I was dating the type of person who only lets you know a few weeks in that they’re in a relationship with someone else. And you’re just like, ”What the f**k?”
Previously Winona admitted she found it ‘hard to imagine’ a sequel of the hit movie as she had imagined her character being ‘alone’ in an ‘attic’.
She told Slash Film: ‘I think certainly, I never pictured Lydia either having children or in any type of relationship. I just always thought she was just probably in her own world as she got older. Just sort of in the attic and happy, but alone.’
Winona and her onscreen daughter struck up a close bond on set with Jenna previously gushing of working with Winona: ‘She was so warm and welcoming and kind and inviting right from the jump, and I couldn’t be more grateful,’ she told the New York Times.
Across town Tim Burton was seen leaving BBC Broadcasting House
In the dark fantasy comedy-horror from 1988, Winona was only 15 years old as she played Lydia Deetz, while Michael, in the titular role, was 36
‘It was at a time where my career was taking a different turn, and I didn’t realize that I needed that from somebody who could relate, but I did,’ she said, adding that she was in a ‘transformative’ period in her life after shooting to overnight superstardom on Netflix’s Wednesday.
Winona first appeared as a Scream Queen when she was just 17 years old in the hit Burton film, while Jenna made her mark at the age of 20 working with the same director.
But it seems Jenna is on her way to becoming this generations Screen Queen – a term used for prominent actresses across the genre, who react to their frightening situations with an onslaught of shrieking.
However, the horror movie depiction of a ‘Scream Queen’ has been tweaked by the likes of Jenna as someone less likely to shriek and more likely to get revenge.
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