Winona Ryder appears to have barely aged a day since she starred in Beetlejuice.
The actress was simply 15 years previous when she landed the function of goth teen Lydia Deetz in director Tim Burton’s 1988 horror comedy — beating out, by the way, a powerful checklist of starlets reportedly together with Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, Molly Ringwald, Juliette Lewis, Jennifer Connelly and Alyssa Milano.
The hit movie, solely her third following supporting roles in 1986’s Lucas and 1987’s Sq. Dance, propelled Ryder to stardom, and the moody character cemented her standing as a queen of ’90s angst.
Thirty-six years later, Ryder is as soon as once more enjoying Lydia in Burton’s long-awaited sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Now a TV star and mother, the character nonetheless sports activities the identical spiky fringe and funereal wardrobe she did within the first movie, and very like Lydia, Ryder continues to be the spitting picture of her youthful self.
Forward of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’s Sept. 6 launch, check out photographs of the star, then and now.
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As Lydia Deetz, 15-year-old Winona Ryder went full goth in Beetlejuice. The character outlined herself as “unusual and strange” with a dramatic coiffure — someplace between The Treatment’s Robert Smith and Darkish Shadows‘ Barnabas Collins — to match.
A Spooky Replace
Returning to the function in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, it is nearly spooky how effectively the 52-year-old Ryder can nonetheless rock an up to date, barely toned-down model of Lydia’s distinctive ‘do.
The Bride Wore Purple
Who might neglect Lydia’s divinely demonic purple wedding ceremony gown in Beetlejuice?
Hauntingly Glamorous
Greater than three a long time later, Ryder was clearly nodding to her character along with her have a look at the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on Aug. 28, 2024.
Flying Excessive
By the tip of 1988’s Beetlejuice, Lydia had totally embraced the advantages of dwelling in a haunted home.
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And in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, she and daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) are nonetheless there! Ortega’s character does not appear to have inherited her mom’s aptitude for the dramatic, however Ryder’s Lydia seems to retain a passion for a model of her highschool uniform.
Darkish Girl
Quick-forward to 2024: Ryder appeared totally dedicated to “methodology dressing” at an Aug. 17 occasion in New York Metropolis forward of the discharge of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Not-So-Fundamental Black
One 12 months after Beetlejuice hit theaters, Ryder was again in black at a 1989 occasion in L.A.
Like a Goth to a Flame
Throughout a photograph name on the 2024 Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on Aug. 28, Ryder positively seemed like she was channeling a barely extra well-adjusted Lydia.
