It’s been 36 years since since the world first met Beetlejuice, and the unforgettable bio exorcist is set to haunt screens once more in the new long-awaited sequel to the cult-classic film.
Fans were thrilled on Thursday when the trailer dropped for the second installment, which is called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Stars Michael Keaton, 72, Winona Ryder, 52, and Catherine O’Hara, 70, are all returning to their iconic roles – with Tim Burton also making a comeback to direct the movie.
Years have passed since the events of the original film, and now Lydia Deetz (Winona) is a mother to a teenage daughter Astrid, who is portrayed by Wednesday star Jenna Ortega.
Ahead of the sequel being released in September, MailOnline looks back at the original cast of the 1988 horror-comedy and what they’re up to now…
It’s been 36 years since since the world first met Beetlejuice , and the unforgettable bio exorcist is set to haunt screens once more in the new long-awaited sequel to the cult-classic film
Fans were thrilled on Thursday when the trailer dropped for the second installment , which is called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Michael Keaton – Beetlejuice
Keaton helped shape the physical appearance of Beetlejuice (pictured left) which helped him foster a successful career and eventually go on to win an Emmy (pictured right in 2022)
Michael Keaton will be reviving his starring role as Beetlejuice in the upcoming film, after putting on a striking and memorable performance 38 years ago.
Tim Burton previously told Entertainment Weekly that seeing Keaton 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.’
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.’
The role was one of the most notable of his career and he used its momentum to create a long-lasting career in Hollywood with iconic roles like Bruce Wayne in Batman and Riggan Thomson in Birdman, a role that he won a Golden Globe for.
The actor revealed that he played a huge role in shaping Beetlejuice, one of the quirkiest and most unique characters to ever hit the big screen.
At first, he didn’t see himself in the part and initially turned down the role multiple times.
‘I liked Tim personally, but I really didn’t know what he was trying to explain with the concept of the movie. And so I said no two or three times,’ Keaton told EW.
However, once he was on board ‘it was off to the races.’
The 71-year-old explained that he personally approached the wardrobe and makeup department and told them: ‘I want mold on my face. My hair has to look like I stuck my finger in an electric socket.’
He also had a role in picking the way Beetlejuice’s teeth and skin looked while Burton selected the character’s iconic suit.
Keaton appreciated that freedom in the creative process.
‘Beetlejuice is the ultimate ‘Yes and…’ movie, really, because Tim never went, ‘Wait, no, you can’t do that.’ He went, ‘Oh, you’re going to do that? Cool. Then watch this. Then go over there and do this,” he shared.
The veteran actor added: ‘[My character] isn’t even in the movie very much! But it’s 100 per cent just an original piece of art.’
Creative visionary: Keaton had a first-hand role in creating the vision for Beetlejuice by meeting with the wardrobe and makeup team and planning the character’s hair, teeth and skin
He wasn’t certain about taking on the role and turned it down two or three times before accepting
He and his wife, Caroline McWilliams (pictured in 1989 at the Batman premiere), divorced a year after his project Batman in 1990
Shortly after Beetlejuice, he joined Burton on his next project, 1989’s Batman.
Fans of the comic book saw it as a controversial choice, especially coming off of his campy portrayal of Beetlejuice.
However, he knew what it took to play a grounded version of the character by focusing on his alter ego, Bruce Wayne.
‘I know the name of the movie is Batman and it’s hugely iconic and very cool and culturally iconic,’ he said on the In The Envelope: The Actors Podcast.
‘I always knew from the get-go it was Bruce Wayne. That was the secret… from a character perspective it’s about Bruce Wayne. Who’s that guy?’
During that time he was married to Caroline McWilliams. They shared one son together, Sean, who was born in 1983 – five years before the release of Beetlejuice.
They ultimately divorced in 1990 after eight years of marriage.
Sadly, Williams passed away from complications of multiple myeloma – a cancer that comes from malignant plasma cells – in 2010.
Keaton had complicated feelings about his ex-wife’s illness and death, which he described in a 2010 interview with Elle.
‘And the feelings that came up were odd, but not in a bad way, necessarily, because we had remained close,’ he stated.
‘She was a remarkable mom. Sean is the great guy he is because of her — we’ve always been tight, but now the bond’s even tighter. We’re the family now.’
He then went on to date Friends star Courteney Cox in 1990 up until 1995. During that time, he returned for the Batman sequel, Batman Returns (1992).
He spent the rest of the 90s taking on more film projects including The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997) and Out Of Sight (1998).
During the 2000s, his career slowed down and he stuck to making cameos on TV series like The Simpsons and Frasier.
Keaton has spoken out about the break in his career and explained that it was an active decision to step away from Hollywood for about a decade.
‘Look, there’s two different things here. There’s me taking a pause. I really like life, doing things, having a normal life. So there was that,’ he told The Guardian.
‘And there was me getting bored, hearing the sound of my voice, seeing the same old tricks. So I may have lost interest, combined with a whole lot of people not knocking on my door. It wasn’t just me.
‘But I also consciously started to slowly change things internally, and it worked…. Just thinking about things, asking what you want, what you don’t want, how am I going to get to there? And it takes a lot of stumbling around, and it takes discipline,’ he explained.
Shortly after Beetlejuice, he joined Burton on his next project, Batman (1989)
He spent the rest of the 90s taking on more film projects including The Paper (1994) and Jackie Brown (1997)
Keaton took a break from Hollywood for about a decade but with a newfound sense of discipline, he returned to Hollywood in 2008 in the film The Merry Gentleman (2008)
With a newfound sense of discipline, he returned to Hollywood in 2008 in the film The Merry Gentleman.
However, it wasn’t until 2014 that he landed the biggest role of his career.
Keaton was excited to accept a meeting with Birdman’s director, stating: ‘I had seen all of Alejandro Inarritu’s movies and loved them.’
Once he read the script, he claimed he ‘knew from the get-go I was doing that movie. I thought, ‘Boy, this is going to be really scary.’ But when I’m frightened, that’s generally speaking a good sign.’
It certainly was a great omen for him as the film landed him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and the film went on to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
The performance rebooted his career and he went on to star in Spotlight (2015) and The Founder (2016).
Keaton landed his next award-winning role in the 2021 TV miniseries Dopesick. He won both an Emmy and Golden Globe for his performance as Dr. Samuel Finnix.
The role had a deep emotional impact on him and he even teared up when giving his Emmy acceptance speech, noting that he lost his nephew to drugs.
‘Given the subject matter, this is for my nephew, Michael, and my sister, Pam,’ he shared. ‘I lost Michael to drugs and it hurts. To my sister Pam, thanks.’
Birdman landed him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and the film went on to win an Oscar for Best Picture
He landed his next award-winning role in the 2021 TV miniseries Dopesick. He won both an Emmy and Golden Globe for his performance as Dr. Samuel Finnix
By his side: Marni Turner, his girlfriend of reportedly more than six years, supported him after his Emmy win in 2022
Michael Keaton and his long term girlfriend Marni Turner made a rare appearance together at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Beverly Hills on Sunday
Keaton also put on the Batman helmet once again in The Flash after walking away from the role decades ago
Keaton put on the Batman helmet once again in The Flash (2023) after walking away from the role decades ago.
‘I thought, ‘Boy, what would that be like?’… It has to be good,’ he told THR of his prerequisites for taking on the role.
‘There’s no reason to do it if it’s not good. It’s not gonna really change anything.’
He added: ‘And I just jumped in and had fun. And why would you not? You know, I mean, director Andy Muschietti is fantastic, and it’s really creative. I don’t know. It’s fun.’
The actor will also star alongside Mila Kunis in a 2024 holiday-themed film called Goodrich, with the pair playing father and daughter – a release date is yet to be announced.
Keaton is winning on the romance front as he has been dating Marni Turner for more than eight years.
Unlike her famous beau, Turner has remained out of the spotlight. She has been a supportive figure in his life and accompanied him to the Emmys in 2022.
They made a rare appearance together at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Beverly Hills in March.
The power couple were dressed to the nines in jet black as they had a date night after the Academy Awards. They were seen inside the after party but not at the actual Academy Awards.
Winona Ryder – Lydia Deetz
Winona Ryder got her big break in Beetlejuice (pictured left) and she had a recent resurgence due to her role of Joyce Byers in Stranger Things (pictured right in 2022)
Winona Ryder, 52, got her big break in Beetlejuice and her career flourished in the 1990s.
The star is returning as Lydia Deetz for the upcoming sequel, with her character now being a mother to a teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega).
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.
After a dramatic breakup with Johnny Depp and a shoplifting incident in the 2000s, she had a recent resurgence due to her role of Joyce Byers in Stranger Things.
Ryder starred as Lydia Deetz when she was just 16 years old.
She has expressed in numerous interviews that she wasn’t one of the popular kids in school and unfortunately, matters only got worse for her after Beetlejuice.
‘I remember thinking, ‘Ooh, it’s, like, the number-one movie. This is going to make things great at school,” she told Marie Claire UK.
‘But it made things worse. They called me a witch.’
After Beetlejuice, she starred in the cult classic Heathers (1988) and played Jerry Lee Lewis’s cousin child bride Myra in Great Balls Of Fire (1989).
Even after having four films under her belt and dating the likes of Rob Lowe in the mid-80s and Christian Slater around the time she filmed Heathers, she still wasn’t widely accepted among her peers.
‘When I get around people my own age, I’m a wreck. What they think of me is so much more important than what people in the industry think of me,’ she told Vogue back in 1994.
‘I think it’s just facing my own insecurity. I was not accepted in high school, not in junior high school, not in elementary school. I was always picked on. I never had friends, except for one, Heather.
‘This is going to sound weird, but even after I got famous, kids weren’t nicer to me. I mean I stayed in high school until I was a sophomore. I’d done four movies. I’d done Beetlejuice – it was a huge movie. But kids still threw food at me,’ she concluded.
Ryder starred as Lydia Deetz when she was just 16 years old while she thought it would boost her popularity at school, she claimed kids still threw food at her
After Beetlejuice, she starred in the cult classic Heathers (1988)
Burton welcomed her back for Edward Scissorhands (1990) where she met Depp
At that point, she left high school and started working on high-profile films with Hollywood’s elite.
Burton welcomed her back for Edward Scissorhands where she met Depp. The two played love interests and would take their relationship off of the big screen into real life in 1989. Ryder was only 17 years old at the time while Depp was 27.
‘What we have… Nothing I say will really be right,’ she said of her and Depp’s relationship to Interview Magazine in 1990.
She added: ‘I will say that he’s an amazing human whom I have an enormous amount of respect for and very deep feelings for. It’s not a possessive, weird little Hollywood promenade.’
He proposed to her just five months after they had started dating. While many thought they were moving too fast, Ryder wanted to assure people at the time that they were moving at their own pace.
‘I’m not getting married. It’s nice that people worry about me, but they don’t know me and they don’t know what we have. And it’s not what they’ve said it has been,’ she shared.
‘It’s a friendship. It’s a relationship, but we’re not married, and we’re not getting married. We’re just hanging out. We both have our own lives,’ she added.
Ryder’s career was taking off in 1990. Not only was she in Edward Scissorhands with her partner, but she had also starred in Mermaids and had accepted a role in The Godfather Part III.
Struggling with the balance of working on three films in succession, Ryder had to drop out of The Godfather Part III.
‘It taught me that I have to slow down,’ she said of the experience to Interview Magazine.
She caught a respiratory infection from filming Mermaids in Boston and wearing tiny dresses. The day after Mermaids wrapped, she hopped a plane to Rome for The Godfather Part III.
‘I never should have flown. The doctor said I could have gone deaf,’ she admitted.
‘Of course, that’s not the way everybody made it sound. They made it sound like I freaked out and ran,’ she added.
She continued: ‘I regret screwing people up, but I would have been a wet noodle. My acting probably would have been panned. How do you act when you don’t have anything left? One thing you have to have when you act is energy.’
Despite leaving Hollywood after a respiratory infection in 1990, she would surge into the spotlight again with her role in Dracula in 1992
Ryder hit another low when she and Depp split the next year in 1993
The rest of the ’90s were a pivotal time for her as she starred in one of her most iconic films, Girl, Interrupted (1999)
So she flew back to her hometown in San Francisco, claiming she was most looking forward to tasting her mom’s soup and being in her own bed.
Many feared that Ryder was pulling the plug on her own career.
‘This business is brutal,’ she told Harper’s Bazaar, reflecting on the issue, in 2022.
‘You’re working constantly, but if you want to take a break, they tell you, ‘If you slow down, it’s going to stop.”
She continued: ‘And then it did slow down. So then you’re hearing, ‘It’s going to be impossible to come back.’ And then that changes to ‘you’re not even part of the conversation.’ Like, it was brutal.’
During the 2000s and 2010s, she made notable cameos in films like Black Swan
However, she would surge into the spotlight again with her role in 1992’s Dracula.
Ryder has opened up about how difficult filming with director Francis Ford Coppola was.
Coppola sometimes had cruel methods for goading Ryder into the performance he wanted.
‘At the time, I thought, ‘Oh, I’m a real actress.’ But in retrospect I probably wouldn’t take that again unless it was a director that I knew really well and that I really trusted,’ Ryder admitted.
She added: ‘I learnt a lot on that set about what I’m not capable of tolerating.’
Ryder may have felt obligated to put up with inappropriate behavior on set because of her breakdown and disappearance from Hollywood.
She hit another low when she and Depp split the next year in 1993.
‘That was my Girl, Interrupted real life,’ Ryder told Harper’s Bazaar, referencing her hit film that hadn’t come out until six years after the breakup.
‘I remember Michelle [Pfieffer] being like, ‘This is going to pass.’ But I couldn’t hear it,’ Ryder said of her former co-star.
She added: ‘I’ve never talked about it. There’s this part of me that’s very private. I have such, like, a place in my heart for those days. But for someone younger who grew up with social media, it’s hard to describe.’
The rest of the ’90s were a pivotal time for her as she starred in Little Women (1994), The Crucible (1996) and one of her most iconic films, Girl, Interrupted (1999).
She also had a brief relationship with Matt Damon in 1997 after she was introduced to him by Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck.
Even though their relationship lasted less than a year, it seemed to end amicably.
She told Blackbook magazine that he ‘couldn’t be a greater, nicer guy’ and that ‘I’m really lucky that I’m on good terms with him.’
However, her career would hit another snag in 2001 when she was arrested for shoplifting.
She had allegedly stolen more than $5,000 worth of designer clothes and accessories from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.
According to Us Weekly, she was charged with grand theft and vandalism, but was acquitted on a burglary charge.
She ended up facing three years of probation, 480 hours of community service, $3,700 in fines and $6,355 in restitution to Saks along with mandatory psychological and drug counseling.
The incident ultimately lead to her taking another break from her career, which she reflected on years later.
‘It’s so interesting when you look at the early aughts. It was a kind of a cruel time. There was a lot of meanness out there,’ she told Porter Magazine in 2016.
‘And then I remember coming back to LA and – it was a rough time. And I didn’t know if that part of my life was over.’
It wasn’t until she accepted the roles as Joyce Byers in Stranger Things, starting in 2017, that she became a big name once again
Filming is underway for season five of the smash hit Netflix show, which is set to bring the nail-biting story to a conclusion
Specifically addressing the shoplifting incident, she stated: ‘I won’t get into what happened, but it wasn’t what people think. And it wasn’t like the crime of the century.’
‘But it allowed me time that I really needed, where I went back to San Francisco and got back into things… I just had other interests, frankly,’ she continued.
It did take some time for Ryder’s Hollywood career to pick up again after the scandal.
During the 2000s and 2010s, she made notable cameos in films like Black Swan.
It wasn’t until she accepted the role as Joyce Byers in Stranger Things, starting in 2017, that she became a big name once more.
Filming is underway for season five of the smash hit Netflix show, which is set to bring the nail-biting story to a conclusion.
Geena Davis – Barbara Maitland
Geena Davis (right in 2022) catapulted into stardom after playing Barbara in Beetlejuice (pictured left) and is just starting to resurface once again after life as a mom
Davis, 68, played the naive newlywed-turned-ghost, Barbara Maitland. After Beetlejuice, Davis went on to play her biggest roles in the 1990s.
Sadly, the star has officially confirmed she will not be in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The actress told Entertainment Tonight:
‘No, I’m not. I’m not in the remake. Oh, you were expecting that I would be? Yeah, no, you know what? Because my theory is that ghosts don’t age… Not that I have.
‘Our characters were stuck the way they looked when they died forever, so it’s been a while, it’s been a minute.’
Davis married Manhattan restauranteur Richard Emmolo in 1981, but the two divorced in 1984 – four years before Beetlejuice hit theaters.
Then she started dating Jurassic Park star Jeff Goldblum in 1985. They tied the knot in 1987 – a year before Beetlejuice’s release, but he filed for divorce after three years of marriage.
‘I’m sure we’re both pretty sad. We certainly had high hopes, every good intention. It’s upsetting,’ she told People.
‘Other people’s perceptions are that it’s just perfect, he’s the funniest guy. This is not a reflection on Jeff. I mean, it can apply equally to me,’ she added.
She continued: ‘We were a normal couple and had all kinds of experiences. We weren’t sitting around just laughing all day, putting on shows for each other.’
Three years after Beetlejuice, she went on to land her career-making role as one half of the iconic duo Thelma and Louise.
A year later, she would star in the iconic 1992 film A League of Their Own.
Davis, 67, played the naive newlywed-turned-ghost, Barbara Maitland
Three years after Beetlejuice, she went on to land her career-making role as one half of the iconic duo Thelma and Louise (pictured left). A year later, she would star in A League of Their Own (right)
Davis went on to star in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Her next marriage came in 1993 with Finnish filmmaker Renny Harlin.
He went onto direct her next two films, Cutthroat Island (1995) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996).
However, their marriage came to an end not long after and their divorce was finalized in 1998, and she started dating surgeon Reza Jarrahy – with whom she shares daughter Alizeh, and fraternal twin sons Kaiis and Kian – that year.
Thankfully, the end of her third marriage didn’t mark the end of her career. In 2000, she landed her own TV series called The Geena Davis Show.
Just as her series was canceled in 2001, she and Jarrahy had a wedding ceremony. However, it is up for debate whether the two ever got married at all.
Jarrahy insists they were legally married since they had a wedding officiated by his father who was ordained.
Davis herself referred to her relationship with him as a marriage.
‘I did say to Reza, ‘You’re about to become someone’s fourth husband. What on earth are you thinking?’ But as for myself, I wasn’t nervous at all,’ she told Good Housekeeping in 2006.
‘I really did feel that I had turned a corner, that I had pulled off changes that were real and permanent.
‘And it was exciting to know I was marrying someone who I can be cranky or selfish in front of and he doesn’t run screaming from the room or judge me for it. It’s like I discovered a whole other way to live,’ she shared.
In 2000, she landed her own TV series called The Geena Davis Show, which only lasted one season
In 2015, Davis took charge on the TV series Commander in Chief
The Commander In Chief star and surgeon Jarrahy were together for 20 years
However during their years-long custody battle and divorce, Davis said they had a ‘marriage-like ceremony,’ but didn’t have a license and ‘never intended to marry.’
A source told Page Six that she and her legal team were ‘unfavorable’ to Jarrahy and after nearly four years of going back and forth, he ‘agreed to settle’ in 2021.
‘They were very unfavorable to Reza, who agreed to settle just to put this behind him and be free of the nightmare Geena has caused for him,’ the source revealed.
The couple first separated on November 2017 after 16 years of marriage and Jarrahy subsequently filed for divorce when Davis reportedly kicked him out of their Pacific Palisades home.
Filed under pseudonyms, the surgeon cited irreconcilable differences in the documents.
Reza was only 27 when he attended a 1998 party and met Davis who was 42 at the time. They married on September 1, 2001, and started their family the following year.
As Davis focused on raising their family, her career had slowed down. She stuck to TV appearances on shows like Commander in Chief, Grey’s Anatomy and Glow.
However, now that her kids are grown, it looks like she’s eyeing some time on the big screen again. Her most recent credit is the 2023 film Fairyland.
Alec Baldwin – Adam Maitland
Baldwin (right in March) became a household name after playing Adam in Beetlejuice (left), but has been facing legal troubles over his involvement in the fatal accidental Rust shooting
Baldwin probably has the most star power out of anyone in the cast. He became a household name after Beetlejuice for both his roles and making headlines.
The 66-year-old actor played the uneasy Adam Maitland, Barbara’s husband, in Beetlejuice. It’s unconfirmed whether he reprised his role in the sequel, however, it’s looking unlikely.
Baldwin admitted that he wasn’t sure if the original Beetlejuice film would be successful with how unusual it was.
‘When we did Beetlejuice, I had no idea what it was about,’ Baldwin told GQ in 2019.
‘I thought my, all of our, careers are going to end with the release of this film. Maybe we’re all going to be dead.’
Baldwin admitted that he wasn’t sure if the film would be successful with how unusual it was
Baldwin gained traction shortly after Beetlejuice appearing in The Hunt for Red October in 1990 and Glengarry Glen Ross in 1992
He also started dating Kim Basinger after they starred in The Marrying Man together. The couple pictured in 1998
He ultimately credits director Burton and Beetlejuice actor Keaton for the film’s success.
‘Michael came and knew the secret,’ he began. ‘Because I would act and then I would have some doubts.’
‘I was much more neurotic about what I would do, and I was very young starting out in films.
‘And Keaton just came out and he was like the comedy Annie Oakley. He was so self-assured. He just tore it up.’
Baldwin gained traction shortly after Beetlejuice appearing in The Hunt for Red October in 1990 and Glengarry Glen Ross in 1992.
He also started dating Kim Basinger after they starred in The Marrying Man together (1991). They tied the knot in 1993 and welcomed their daughter, Ireland Baldwin, not too long after.
However, the two would split in 2001 and had a ‘heavy-duty, very out loud when you’re in the public, divorce’ as Basinger described it during an appearance on Red Table Talk.
He met his current wife, Hilaria, at a restaurant in 2011 and quickly started dating. By 2012, they had tied the knot. Pictured in 2022
He then had a seven-season run on Tina Fey’s series 30 Rock (pictured right as Jack Donaghy) from 2006 to 2013. Even though his career slowed down a smidge after he and Hilaria welcomed their kids, he still had time to film 2013’s Blue Jasmine (pictured left)
Most recently, he worked on producing the Wild West film Rust. However, production was halted when he was involved in an accidental fatal shooting on set
He continued to be a big name on the big screen in the 2000s, starring in his biggest films including The Cooler (2003), The Departed (2006) and It’s Complicated (2009).
He was also seen dating a number of famous women including Kristin Davis, Nicole Seidel and Lori Singer.
He then had a seven-season run on Tina Fey’s series 30 Rock from 2006 to 2013.
During this time, he met his current wife, Hilaria Baldwin. They met at a restaurant in 2011 and quickly started dating. By 2012, they had tied the knot.
They got to work quickly and welcomed seven kids into the world in the span of their ten-year marriage. The two are parents to sons Eduardo ‘Edu’ Pao Lucas, two; Romeo Alejandro David, four; Leonardo Ángel Charles, six; and Rafael Thomas, seven; as well as daughters Ilaria and Maria Lucia Victoria, two, and Carmen Gabriela, nine.
Even though his career slowed down a smidge after he and Hilaria welcomed their kids, he still had time to film Blue Jasmine (2013), Still Alice (2014) and The Boss Baby (2017).
Most recently, he worked on producing the Wild West film Rust. However, production was halted when he was involved in an accidental fatal shooting on set.
Baldwin is set to face trial for involuntary manslaughter in July for the death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, after the gun he was holding discharged on set.
Director Joel Souza was also injured in the deadly incident but survived.
Baldwin has insisted that he did not pull the trigger, and he says he was unaware that the gun was loaded.
Prosecutors have said they offered the Hunt For Red October star a plea deal that would have resulted in probation and a $500 fine, but later rescinded it.
Attorneys for the state explained their reasons in court papers obtained by People.
‘On October 5, 2023, the special prosecutors extended a plea offer to Mr. Baldwin as confidential and privileged plea negotiations and gave Mr. Baldwin until October 27, 2023 to accept the offer or the case would proceed to grand jury,’ they contended.
Counsel for the State received no response at all — not even an email from defense counsel stating that they received the offer and would discuss it with their client,’ they continued.
In an effort to keep the case out of court, the deadline was extended.
The actor is facing trial for involuntary manslaughter in July for the death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after the gun he was holding discharged (Pictured in Livingston, MT in April 2023)
However, the prosecution then learned that the details had been leaked and an NBC reporter was ‘provided all the details of the presumed confidential and privileged plea offer.’
‘After determining that the reporter did indeed have all the details of the plea offer extended to Mr. Baldwin, undersigned counsel received additional information that Mr. Baldwin and his counsel were working with the media to generate a campaign designed to deflect attention away from any future plea hearing to protect Mr. Baldwin’s public image,’ they said.
They also claim experts have concluded that Baldwin must have pulled the trigger in the fateful incident.
In response, Baldwin and his legal team have filed their own papers, alleging a ‘stunning abuse of prosecutorial power,’ and have asked for the case to be dismissed.
If the judge declines to do so, the Motherless Brooklyn star faces up 18 months in prison if convicted.
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 26, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March and sentenced to 18 months behind bars on April 15.
Catherine O’Hara – Delia Deetz
Delia Deetz was O’Hara’s first Hollywood role (pictured left), but she became a household name again after starring in Schitt’s Creek (pictured right in 2023)
Beetlejuice was Catherine O’Hara’s first big Hollywood film. Previously, the star performed improv at Second City in Toronto.
That’s when the now 70-year-old actress got the call to audition for Beetlejuice.
‘I’d been asked to audition for Beetlejuice. I had all these calls with David Geffen, who was a producer,’ she told The New Yorker.
‘I didn’t know him at the time. Out of ignorance, I’m, like, ‘Who is this guy? He keeps bugging me. He kept calling and saying, ‘This is a part for you. You should be doing this.’ He kept calling.
‘Then they said they wanted me to meet this guy, Tim Burton. I didn’t know Tim Burton. Then finally I was depressed at home, and I had nothing going. I said, ‘OK, I’ll go audition. I’ll go meet him.
‘I flew to L.A. from Toronto, and I rented a car. The address was in Burbank. I drove for hours. I thought, ‘What kind of director is this far from show business?’
Beetlejuice put her name out there in the American market. Soon after, she landed roles in comedies like Home Alone (1990) as Kevin McCallister’s mom Kate
She also continued working with one of her fellow Canadian improvisers, Christopher Guest and starred in his films including Best in Show (2000)
In 2015, she starred as Moira Rose in the Canadian TV series Schitt’s Creek. The show gained so much traction in the United States that it became her most notable role to date
Not only did Beetlejuice make her break in Hollywood but it’s also where she met her husband, Bo Welch (pictured in 2021)
‘I was so late. I got lost. There was no cell phone. I had to pull over somewhere and find a phone booth and phone my agent.
‘I finally, two hours late, got back to Burbank. There was a note on the door from Tim Burton. It said, ‘I’m sorry. I waited as long as I could.’ I go back home to Toronto. A few weeks later they offer me the part.
‘It’s a good trick. If you’re bad at auditioning, just don’t go,’ she concluded.
Fans are thrilled that the star will be returning as her character Delia Deetz once more in the upcoming sequel.
Not only did Beetlejuice make her break in Hollywood but it’s also where she met her husband, Bo Welch. He served as the film’s production designer and he asked her out while filming was finishing up.
Ultimately, O’Hara decided she felt the spark with Welch and decided to move to Hollywood to be with him.
The role put her name out there in the American market. Soon after, she landed roles in comedies like Home Alone (1990) as the mother of Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister, Kate.
She also continued working with one of her fellow Canadian improvisers, Christopher Guest. She starred in his films Waiting For Guffman (1996), Best In Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003) and For Your Consideration (2006).
However, her most iconic gig came years later.
In February of this year it was announced that O’Hara is returning to television for the second season of the HBO hit drama The Last of Us
In 2015, she starred as Moira Rose in the Canadian TV series Schitt’s Creek.
The show gained so much traction in the United States that it has become her most notable role to date.
In February of this year it was announced that O’Hara is returning to television for the second season of the HBO hit drama The Last of Us.
HBO confirmed that she would be playing an as yet ‘undisclosed role’ in the series based on the popular PlayStation game.
The official word comes after the Best in Show actress made an appearance on Andy Cohen’s, 55, Watch What Happens Live on Thursday and a fan asked her if the rumors that she’d be joining the cast were true.
‘How do you know these things?’ O’Hara said, before confirming: ‘It’s in discussion – yeah.’
Jeffrey Jones – Charles Deetz
Jones upheld his reputation as a character actor in Beetlejuice (pictured left), but his image became completely tarnished when he was charged with requesting sexual pictures from a minor (pictured right in 2004)
Jeffrey Jones, 76, was a notorious character actor before his role as Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice – he will not be returning for the sequel.
His most notable credit was as the dean, Ed Rooney, in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986).
After starring in Beetlejuice, he went on to star in a quirky film titled Stay Tuned (1992).
He also acted in a couple of Burton’s other projects including Ed Wood (1994) and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
While the ’90s were a high point in Jones’ career, his success didn’t last for long.
Jones’ most notable credit is the dean, Ed Rooney, in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Beetlejuice was another big boost to his career as a character actor
After starring in Beetlejuice, he went on to star in a quirky film titled Stay Tuned (1992)
He also acted in a couple of Burton’s other projects including Ed Wood (1994) and Sleepy Hollow (1999)
In 2001, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) received information from a minor who accused Jones of committing crimes of a sexual nature.
After an investigation was completed, a warrant was made for his arrest.
Eventually, he was charged with having a 14-year-old boy pose for sexually explicit pictures and he pleaded no contest.
He was required to upload his data onto the sex offenders registry every year. After his charges, the actor was hardly able to book roles outside of small TV movies.
Matters got worse for him when he faced another charge in 2010 for not updating his sex registry data.
The disgraced actor was charged with 250 days of community service.
Consequently, his acting career suffered, receiving fewer roles following the events, though he did appear in HBO’s Deadwood.