Winona Ryder has passed the baton to Jenna Ortega as they posed together at their latest film premiere Beetlejuice 2 at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday.
The Stranger Things actress, 52, who starred in the original movie in 1988 when she was 16-years-old, has reprised her role as Lydia in Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice sequel while Wednesday actress Jenna, 21, portrays her daughter Astrid Deetz.
Winona cut a stylish figure in a black cropped blazer and waistcoat which she wore over a white shirt and a dramatic netted flood length skirt.
Styling her dark tresses in a neat up do, she beamed for photos as she wrapped an arm around Jenna who put on a daring display in a red cut-out gown.
Jenna looked incredibly glamorous as she went braless under the ruffled thin-strapped ensemble which she teamed with towering heels and a dazzling necklace.
Winona Ryder has passed the baton to Jenna Ortega as they posed together at their latest film premiere Beetlejuice 2 at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday
The actress, 52, who starred in the original movie in 1988 when she was 16-years-old, has reprised her role as Lydia in the Beetlejuice sequel while Jenna, 21, portrays her daughter Astrid Deetz
The co-stars were all smiles as they walked the red carpet together before joining the rest of the cast for a group snap ahead of the premiere.
Jenna previously said 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.
‘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.
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.’
Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is opening the festival on Thursday.
The 81st Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and will be held on the Lido di Venezia from 28 August to 7 September 2024.
As well as Sigourney and the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice cast there is an array of A-listers expected to descend in Venice over the coming days.
Winona cut a stylish figure in a black cropped blazer and waistcoat which she wore over a white shirt and a dramatic netted flood length skirt
Styling her dark tresses in a neat up do, she beamed for photos as she wrapped an arm around Jenna who put on a daring display in a red cut-out gown
Jenna looked incredibly glamorous as she went braless under the ruffled thin-strapped ensemble which she teamed with towering heels and a dazzling necklace
Jenna previously said 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’
The cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice descended onto the carpet (pictured L-R: Catherine O’Hara, Willem Dafoe, Michael Keaton, Monica Belluci, Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux and Arthur Conti)
George Clooney is already in town, alongside his wife Amal, for the debut of his anticipated new movie Wolfs – the Jon Watts-directed heist thriller that reunites him with Oceans 11 co-star Brad Pitt.
Both George and Brad will be attendance at the September 1 screening.
Brad’s ex wife Angelina Jolie is also due in Venice to promote the film Maria, in which she plays opera legend Maria Callas.
Sources indicate that the schedules have been arranged so that the warring couple – who continue to be embroiled in legal action eight years after they split – will not be at the film festival at the same time.
Another major screening is Joker: Folie à Deux on September 4. The premiere of the sequel will welcome stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga to the Venice red carpet.
Daniel Craig will also be at the festival to promote his movie Queer, which screens on September 3.
Venice regulars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton are in town for Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door while Nicole Kidman is screening her erotic thriller Babygirl on August 30.
Pupi Avati’s The American Backyard will close the festival on September 7.
Jenna, 21, portrays Winona’s daughter Astrid Deetz in the sequel
Winona reprised her role as Lydia in Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice sequel
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’ (pictured with Michael Keaton in 1988)
