Winona Ryder has said some young people aren’t interested in movies because of the length of them.
The actor, who is starring in Tim Burton’s upcoming Beetlejuice sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, opened up in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times about how some young people are immediately put off by the length of movies.
She explained: “I don’t mean to sound so hopeless,” she added to the magazine. “There are a few that are just not interested in movies. Like, the first thing they say is, ‘How long is it?’”
In a separate interview with Esquire (via Variety), Ryder added: “I just think that social media has changed everything, and I know I sound old. I’m very aware of that. And part of me thinks, ‘Gosh, am I like vaudeville at this point?’
“Like [elderly lady voice], ‘Hey, kids, turn down the music!’ But I just think there was such an abundance: the history of film, the history of photography, it’s so rich, and there’s so much there, and I don’t mean we should go backwards, but I wish and I hope that the younger generation will study that.”
Burton is set to release the long-awaited Beetlejuice Beetlejuice starring Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega on September 6. The sequel also sees Ryder and Catherine O’Hara return to their roles from the 1998 original.
Ortega recently spoke about the close friendship that she struck up with Ryder on the set of the upcoming film.
Ortega plays the rebellious Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia, as the Deetz clan return home to Winter River following the death of Charles Deetz.
The on-screen mother and daughter turned out to be fast friends in real life, as Ortega recently explained to Fandango.
“Obviously joining a sequel to something and it being so long since the original, I think I just wanted to put my head down and do the work and show up and be respectful and read my little book book off to the side,” Ortega said,.
“But I think Winona was so warm and so welcoming, as was Catherine [O’Hara], as was everybody else, that you almost didn’t have a choice but to become a part of the family, which I’m so grateful for because I think that in shooting and working together and Tim’s playful spirit, I felt like everything that we were doing felt like we were all in on the same joke or on the same page or had the same ideas.”
She continued: “It just felt like a free and collaborative space, but Winona and I — I swear we just started talking one day on set and then never stopped,” she continued. “You could find us in the same position four hours later never having moved. She’s the best.”