Jenna Ortega Talks About Meeting Winona Ryder For The First Time On The Set Of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The Wednesday star, 21, plays Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder’s 52-year-old Lydia Deetz, in the film.
“She was so warm and welcoming and kind and caring from the very beginning, and I couldn’t be more grateful,” Ortega explained in an interview with the The New York Times.
“It was at a time when my career was taking a different turn and I didn’t realize I needed that from someone who could relate to me, but I did,” she said, adding that she was in a “transformative” period in her life after skyrocketing to overnight stardom on Netflix’s Wednesday.
“The way Winona and I got along was quite strange. It was like we were reading each other’s minds a bit,” he added.
Jenna Ortega Talked About What It Was Like Meeting Winona Ryder For The First Time On The Set Of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, pictured in August 2024
Rising to fame so quickly made Jenna feel like she “woke up in someone else’s shoes,” she said.
“I felt like I had entered someone else’s life and I didn’t know how to get back to my own,” she said.
“Obviously, with the success and attention she received in the ’90s, Winona had probably experienced that to an even greater extent, so she was the first person I connected with on that topic,” he explained.
“She made me feel seen when other people in my life, as much as they wanted to, couldn’t relate or couldn’t understand.”
And when it comes to the advice the Heathers star gave her, Jenna keeps it to herself.
“It’s hard to say because I think I’d like to keep some of it between us.”
“She made me feel really, really beautiful and special, and that, again, during that moment, meant the world to me,” she continued.
This isn’t the first time the Scream IV star has praised the Reality Bites actress.
“Winona and I… I swear we started talking one day on set and we never stopped,” he said. Fandango- “You could find us in the same situation four hours later, without ever having moved. She’s the best.”
Winona feels the same way, saying, “I don’t think I’ve ever bonded with someone like I did with Jenna. It was crazy. And I felt like I was talking to a younger version of myself, but she’s a thousand times cooler.”
The Wednesday star, 21, plays Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia Deetz, 52, in the film; Winona pictured in August 2024
“She was so warm and welcoming and kind and caring from the very beginning, and I couldn’t be more grateful,” Ortega explained in an interview with the New York Times, photographed in August 2024.
“It was at a time when my career was taking a different turn, and I didn’t realize that I needed that from someone who could relate to me, but I did,” she said, adding that she was in a “transformative” period in her life after rocketing to stardom overnight in Netflix’s Wednesday; Winona pictured in August 2024
“The way Winona and I got along was pretty weird. It was like we were reading each other’s minds a little bit,” she added, in a photo taken in August 2024.
“Because we both have the same almost religious reverence for cinema,” he said in an interview with Rant on the screen.
“She’s a film buff and we can talk about movies for years. We connected so intensely and that was incredibly helpful. It blew my mind.”
Ortega had the last word, saying: ‘It’s weird, sometimes you look at someone and you just know.
“I feel like we had that and I could never have anticipated having the incredible opportunity to work with her, let alone get to know her and love her. And she’s so easy to love,” she enthused.
