‘Beetlejuice’ Townspeople Met Jenna Ortega with Her Old Memorabilia (Exclusive)

Not only the characters of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice return to the town of Winter River in Connecticut, but the actors themselves returned to their old location from the original 1988 film.

The town of East Corinth, Vermont, once again served as a filming location for the Tim Burton-directed sequel, which hits theaters September 6. Weekly entertainment‘S Around the table In the video series, star Jenna Ortega, who plays Lydia’s teenage daughter Astrid, tells a story about meeting some East Corinth residents who still had their memorabilia from the first film.

“I remember one time we were rehearsing outside of Winter River. We built it on the same hill, in the same town, the same house, the same dimensions, everything. They had all the old notes from the original,” says Ortega, speaking to his co-stars Michael Keaton, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe and Justin Theroux. “And it was weird because we were shooting and people who lived in this town in Vermont would come by with books signed by Tim from 30 years ago or photos of the original. Beetlejuicelike, ‘Oh, we were here when they came back!'”

According to Ortega, there is also a small cinema in East Corinth where the original version was shown. Beetlejuice all week while the cast of the sequel was filming there. “It felt like being on (the city’s) modeling shoot,” she says. “I called my mom, and my mom tried to talk to me about the day, and I described something to her, and she was so excited.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice The story takes place years after the events of the original, in which Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz is now a single mother raising Astrid while working as the host of a television show called Haunted HouseWhen her father dies, Lydia takes Astrid and her stepmother Delia (Catherine O’Hara) back to the house in Winter River to pay their respects and mourn his loss. Naturally, spooky things happen and a portal to the afterlife accidentally opens, prompting Lydia to enlist the help of a certain demonic bio-exorcist who once tried to force her into marriage.

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“Tim and I had an agreement where… First of all, how do you do it again? It’s not like we sat down on the first one and thought, ‘Remember, in the first act this happens. And here’s your character’s arc’ and all that,” says Keaton. “He just thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be fun, this is going to be cool.’ And then it was just created. Up here (in his head) he had created it, but then it took on a life of its own. So that doesn’t happen very often, but that’s what – and I don’t throw that word around lightly – is what makes art in many cases. So I always think that people didn’t realize what was behind them when they wanted to watch this stuff and hear this stuff and live in this world that was so different from anything you could compare it to.”

See EW’s full Around the table Conversation with the stars of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in the video above. The film will be in theaters on September 6th.