Jenna Ortega is weighing in on the trend of remaking iconic films with female leads. During an interview about 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' MTV host Josh Horowitz asked Ortega if she would be interested in starring in a sequel to another one of director Tim Burton's classics, like 'Edward Scissorhands,' which could hypothetically be called 'Edith Scissorhands' with Ortega in the Johnny Depp role.
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00:00Jenna Ortega is weighing in on the trend of remaking iconic films with female leads.
00:05During an interview about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, MTV host Josh Horwitz asked Ortega if she would
00:11be interested in starring in a sequel to another one of director Tim Burton's classics, like Edward
00:15Scissorhands, which could hypothetically be called Edith Scissorhands with Ortega in the Johnny Depp
00:20role. While Ortega and her co-star Catherine O'Hara initially found the idea funny, Ortega went on to
00:26I love that there's a lot more female leads nowadays. I think that's so special,
00:30but we should have our own. I don't like it when it's like a spinoff. Like,
00:34I don't want to see, like, Jamie Bond, you know? Like, I want to see just, like, another badass."
00:39Longtime James Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli previously expressed a view that echoes
00:43Ortega's take. She told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021,
00:56She continued,
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