Jenna Ortega Dressed Like All The Beetlejuice Heroes During Promo

The actress enjoys paying homage to Tim Burton’s film through her outfits, each more inspired than the last.

For some time now, the dressing method – where the art of transposing pop culture through fashion – is making its way onto the red carpet. During premieres, many actresses take advantage of a cinematic event to give nods to their filmography through their clothes. From Zendaya to Anya Taylor-Joy to Margot Robbie, all have become experts in the clothing happening. And they are not the only ones…

Damned Queen during the promotion of the series Wednesdaydressed all in black and lace, Jenna Ortega multiplies the winks to the Beetlejuice original from 1988 on tour for the sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. For Tim Burtonshe sometimes adopts the stripes and black and white adored by the filmmaker, sometimes a designer dress inspired by the famous sculptures of Delia Deetz.

Like mother like daughter

Already in the streets of New York, the interpreter of Astrid, daughter of Lydia Deetz, begins her series of tributes. She must have certainly rummaged in the wardrobe of Winona Ryder : iconic outfit, this kilt skirt and embroidered vest are identical to those worn by his mother on screen at the end of the first part.Shake, shake, shake, Senora, shake your body line…”

Additionally, the actress is holding a handbag from the French brand Ozias – whose designs are also seen in the series. Emily in Paris – in the form of a book. Not just any book: The Handbook for the Recently Deceased (in English The Handbook of the Recently Deceased). Indispensable for all the dead, this precious manual is given by the bureaucracy of the afterlife to Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) upon their death. This is how they learn that they must still live 125 in the house now inhabited by the Deetz family, and how they can hope to chase them away by scaring them. Did Astrid also take this from her mother’s closet?

The dead haunt fashion

The ghost couple may not be in this sequel, and for good reason, but they’re never far away. Arriving in Venice, where Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened the Mostra, Jenna Ortega appeared in an outfit similar to that of Adam (Alec Baldwin): plaid shirt, red t-shirt, beige pants transformed into Bermuda shorts. All that’s missing is a tribute to Barbara (Geena Davis)!

A sculpture on a leg

Astrid’s grandmother, Delia Deetz (Catherine O’Hara) is known for being a contemporary artist with an overflowing imagination. Misunderstood, her creations are often mocked in Beetlejuice. Inspired by their surrealism, Jenna Ortega invited them to shine on the red carpet of the London premiere wearing a dress shaped and colored like one of those strange sculptures visible in the first film.

And since everything is in the details, the actress does not forget to add a handbag representing the haunted house.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetle…

The bio exorcist played by Michael Keaton doesn’t just wear a striped suit! Ready to marry Lydia as their deal demanded, he dresses up for the happiest day of his life – or rather his death – opting for a ruffled shirt, a bow tie and a burgundy suit – the colour of passion. An ensemble repeated by the lead actress during the press conference at the Venice Film Festival. Nothing more, nothing less. Simple and effective and as the English would say, less is more.

Closing of the parade: the wedding dress

It is impossible to ignore one of the most representative outfits from Tim Burton’s film. Apotheosis of the dressing methodon the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, Jenna Ortega wears a vermilion dress by Dior Haute Couture which, beyond its magnificence, is an obvious nod to Lydia’s wedding dress, worn during her nuptials with Beetlejuice. Symbolically, the baton has passed: from Lydia to Astrid, from Winona Ryder to Jenna Ortega.