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“ | Astrid: Can't believe grandpa is dead. Lydia: Death is hard. Astrid: Yeah, sometimes I think life is harder. |
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~ Astrid and Lydia. |
Astrid Deetz is the deuteragonist of Tim Burton's 2024 fantasy horror comedy film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the 1988 film Beetlejuice. She is the teenage daughter of Lydia Deetz, the former gothic teen who nearly married Betelgeuse in 1988.
Astrid has a complicated relationship with her mother due to the death of her father and believes her mother is a fraud who lies about seeing the spirits of the dead.
She is portrayed by Jenna Ortega, who also played Phoebe Atwell in The Babysitter film series, Princess Isabel in Elena of Avalor, Harley Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, Tara Carpenter in the Scream franchise, Brooklynn in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and Wednesday Addams and her ancestor Goody Addams in Wednesday.
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Personality[]
In the beginning of the film, Astrid is shown to be a typical, cold and distant young girl, who has a complicated relationship with her mother Lydia, as she believes her to be a fraud pretending to see the dead, unaware that she can see and talk to the dead. She was once close to both of her parents, but upon the divorce, she took her father's side; upon her father's death, she became resentful against her mother for the perception that Lydia pushed him away, which led to him traveling alone and thus vulnerable. While Astrid never believed Lydia could see ghosts, upon her inability to communicate with the late Richard - as her powers weren't *that* convenient - Astrid's resentment became worse as she believed her mother a callous fraud.
Being the daughter of famous TV psychic Lydia Deetz, Astrid was bullied and ostracised at her school; while Astrid appeared indifferent to it, even being able to quickly deride her bullies, she was actually deeply lonely. Her feelings of isolation are what made her so swiftly bond with Jeremy, ignoring the questionable elements about him due to her need for a connection.
Upon realising that she has the same psychic perception as her mother, Astrid finally accepted that her mother had never lied to her. She also learned about the reality and bureaucracy of the afterlife, thus understood why her mother couldn't contact her late father. When Astrid and Lydia had a brief reunion with Richard, he appealed to them that he didn't want to be the reason they were estranged, and that they were stronger together; therefore, as Astrid realised that Lydia was never a fraud, Richard's death wasn't her fault, and the reasoning from Richard to reconnect made her restore a loving bond with her mother once again.
Despite the repaired mother-daughter relationship, Astrid would still have a dry outlook and sardonic opinions, however, she had mostly gotten beyond her grief and depression, so she developed to feel more optimistic about the world - much like how her mother, when a teenager herself, maintained her goth fashion and macabre preferences, yet being able to experience happiness as well thanks to the ghost couple of the Maitlands introducing a sense of belonging with them and her father and step-mother.
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- Because Astrid never believed that Lydia could see ghosts, it's part of the reason why she got upset for her mother not mourning her father as deeply; Lydia knew the afterlife existed and that she could meet Richard again, and because of their divorce, they were merely friends by the end anyway.
- In the trailer she mocks the girls pranking her by saying she would get the last laugh by having a better life than them, stating they would be "driving car pool and banging their Pilates instructors". In the film she tells them "on your second marriages and third kid." Either way, she gave them a depiction of a soul crushing life.
External Links[]
- Astrid Deetz on the Beetlejuice Wiki
- Astrid Deetz on the Tim Burton Wiki
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