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The gothic fever dream brought us by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice was weirdly the most beautiful movie ever. Michael Keaton’s portrayal of Beetlejuice, the “ghost with the most,” wasn’t just about the ghost. He played a chaotically endearing con artist with a taste for the bizarre, topped with green hair and sporting that iconic sneer. No wonder his return was evident for the long-awaited sequel.
While fans were sure he would reprise his role in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Keaton’s discovery of the surprise cameo is almost as wild as the movie itself. The ghost is caught off guard when he sees Danny DeVito playing an unlucky afterlife janitor who gets his soul eaten by a new villain. The story follows Betelgeuse as he tries to escape his ex-wife, Delores, who hilariously puts her chopped-up body back together to chase him.
Michael Keaton Was Unaware of Beetlejuice 2 Cameo
In a recent interview with Forbes, Keaton discussed his movie, Goodrich, and revealed a shocking detail about his Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie. He admitted that Burton never told him anything about DeVito’s cameo. He said, “I didn’t know he was in Beetlejuice [Beetlejuice]. Tim didn’t tell me that, and I was watching an early cut of it, and I saw and go, ‘Wait a minute!’ You can’t recognize him immediately, and you can barely recognize him. From another angle, I realized it was him.”
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