Inspiration Strikes: How a Chance Meeting with Tim Burton Led to a Beetlejuice Surprise

I remember hearing about it, uh, because the. The writers for Wednesday are the writers of Beetlejuice. So I heard about that, and I was so excited about that. I congratulated them, and then I just kind of forgot about it and, you know, went about my career, I guess. And then, uh, I met with Tim a couple days before Wednesday came out, and we, um, talked about the potential of Season 2 and what we wanted to do. So he told me to write down some ideas for the second season of the show. So I said, okay, I got you. I was feverously scribbling in my journal for a week. Then I went and I met him again. And then when I went to, you know, open up my journal and present these ideas, he just placed the script of Beetlejuice in my journal. And he didn’t tell anyone. He just said, oh, okay. There’s, you know, no pressure, Jenna. Other. But I think there’s a part for you. But again, if. If you don’t want to do it, like, you know, don’t. And I just said, okay, thanks, Tim. I got in my car, and then 10 minutes later, I pulled over on the side of PCH, which is a big, you know, tree way and, uh, California. And PCH is not somewhere you want to pull off to the side to. There’s, like, rocks and ocean and, like. Yeah, everyone’s speeding. It’s awful. But I Sat on the rocks in front of the water, and I just read the script for an hour, and then I called my team and I said, I can’t tell you what I’m agreeing to, but I am agreeing. I’m not available from this time to this time. No way it was that. It was that quick.