Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara presenting at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
Michael KeatonandCatherine O’Harahad a long-awaited reunion at Sunday’sOscars 2024.
Emerging onstage toDanny Elfman’sBeetlejuicetheme song,the costars of the 1988 hit film — and its upcoming sequelBeetlejuice Beetlejuice— presented the awards for Best Production Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 96th Academy Awards.
The reunion of Keaton, 72, and O’Hara, 70, comes nearly four months afterTim Burtonconfirmed on Instagram that the sequelhad wrapped filming. “I just finished shooting Beetlejuice. Thank you to everyone involved,” Burton, 65, wrote in aNovember 2023 post.
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From L: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Jeffrey Jones and Glenn Shadix inBeetlejuice(1988).PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy
The new film features returning stars Keaton, O’Hara andWinona Ryder. Joining the the cast for the seuqel areJenna Ortega,Monica BellucciandJustin Theroux.
In January, O’Hara told PEOPLE she was excited to havegotten to share screen time with Keatonin the upcoming sequel.
“I had a little two-person moment with Michael as Beetlejuice. I’d been in the first movie in group scenes with Michael, but in this, I had an actual moment where the two of us just,” she explained.
“And it was just so crazy and thrilling, really to just be face-to-face with Beetlejuice. He looks the same. Beetlejuice has aged very well,” O’Hara quipped.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuicemovie poster.wbpictures/X
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Keaton told PEOPLE in February that he and Burtonconsidered working on a follow-up film for years.
“We thought, ‘You got to get this right. Otherwise, just don’t do it. Let’s just go on with our lives and do other things,’ " he explained.
“So I was hesitant and cautious, and he was probably equally as hesitant and cautious over all these years,” Keaton continued. “Once we arrived, I said, ‘Okay, let’s just go for it. Let’s just see if we can do it, if we can pull this off.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceis in theaters Sept. 6.
source: people.com
