Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton play the master characters inBeetlejuice Beetlejuice , but along with allthe weird historybetween former goth teenLydiaand chaotic ghost Beetlejuice , they both have additional relationship baggage : Lydia ’s clingy boyfriend Rory ( Justin Theroux ) , and Beetlejuice ’s furiously undead ex - married woman Delores ( Monica Bellucci ) . io9 perplex a prospect to talk to both Theroux and Bellucci about being the Modern kid in Tim Burton ’s much - anticipated subsequence .
“ I loved the first one , ” Bellucci said . “ And when Tim told me there is a primal role in this film [ he thought of range me for ] , of course of study I was very glad to diddle it . And for me , it ’s such an accolade to be part of this awesome cast and to enter into Tim ’s fantastic , magical , poetic domain . ”
after , she state that she loves Burton ’s work because it “ touches all contemporaries , ” and that being Italian , she appreciatedBeetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s references to Italian movie theatre . Danny DeVito has a small but of the essence role in a prospect opposite Delores , and Bellucci admitted , “ I love Danny . I think him not just an amazing actor , but also he ’s an Italian actor in some room , because his line is Italian . And I recall there are so many point of reference here about Italy — Mario Bava , and Beetlejuice utter in Italian , so we can palpate that Tim really loves Italian cinema , and Italian movie theatre is an inspiration for him . ”
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Delores does n’t have a gross ton of screen time , but she ’s mesmerizing when you see her . “ I remember that Delores has a great encroachment … and I thought [ what ] was really interesting about her [ is ] this duality because she ’s scary , but also funny . And to me , she ’s a metaphor of life because we all have worked up scratch and [ she ’s ] full of scratch , ” Bellucci explain . “ But she fights , she come back , she ’s inviolable . And also this theatrical role is very much about consistency linguistic process . So I felt a bit like a pantomimist . I tried to play like a rugged doll . And to make the scene where she puts herself together , it take two or three day to shoot it . I had to learn an entire choreography . And also it ’s interesting to be through your consistency , because we are actor and bodies are our cat’s-paw . ”
For Theroux , working with Burton was also a high spot of hisBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceexperience . “ I gauge there were expectations [ going into make the movie ] , but it was sort of just hop that it lived up to — as far as work with Tim expire , hoping that he sort of live up to his report , which he certainly exceeded , ” he enunciate .
Though Theroux , who ’s also a screenwriter(Iron Man 2 , Tropic Thunder ) , had high congratulations for theBeetlejuice Beetlejuicescript—”There are so many turns that it takes that are unexpected . It ’s a script that is proof that , you know , I do n’t think AI will do a good line of work of ever making a Tim Burton film”—he also had some freedom to improvise and condition Rory in his scenes . “ My fibre [ was ] truthfully a little bit flat on the page . We keep looking for mode to make people believe that [ Rory and Lydia have ] a substantial relationship . We did n’t desire it to experience like it was just a goofy quality that showed up . So we had to sort of germinate the codependency of that relationship . And we did that . And then there were just like , things would come up on the day ; we ’d sort of basically one - up each other extend like , ‘ I could say this , ’ or ‘ What about this or that ? ’ … But we had a lot of fun , sort of just creating sort of the weepiness of the reference , the emotionality , just sort of nurturing that . ”
And yes , Theroux is amply cognizant that Rory is die to be a character hearing love to hate . “ I saw it as Lydia being this somewhat broken hiss who had lost her husband and [ is ] a single mother , and that he was full exploit her for commercial-grade potency . I sort of see her as a dupe in the relationship ; somehow , he ’s force her to become the health professional of him , which is sort of a tactics that can be deploy in toxic relationship . ”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceis in theaters now .
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