Jenna Ortega and Catherine O'Hara talk Beetlejuice and Blur vs Oasis

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The cast of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' stop by NME HQ for a quick catchup on all thing bugs and Britpop. Haunting a cinema near you now!

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00:00Hi, I'm Alex from NME and today I'm joined by two spooky but very friendly cast members

00:14of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It's General Taggart and Catherine O'Hara.

00:17Hello, how are we doing?

00:19I saw the film last night, it's great, but my favourite part was the great big song and

00:24dance scene at the end. Who's having the ideas for those moves?

00:28Both of us.

00:29We had a choreographer, but he let us kind of run wild.

00:33You were the inspiration behind the performance art aspect of it. I think it read on the page

00:40as a proper dance and you sparked an idea.

00:43I wanted improper. I wanted the more, it was illogical to my mind, dance moves that kind

00:50of mean nothing in modern. Not all modern dance, modern dance is amazing.

00:54We were in a tent right off set, just, oh my god, it's funny when you do that.

00:58I think right away you lay down on the floor and did this kind of thing. We went for it.

01:03So obviously you're both in a Beetlejuice film, two for you Catherine now. But have

01:08you ever drunk juice made from beetles?

01:11I would hope not.

01:12Why would you?

01:13And if I did, it may have been an accident.

01:15See this is what I thought, but I was doing some research and after a bit of reading on

01:20the internet, I think we all might have drunk juice made from beetles, because...

01:24Which kind?

01:25I'll tell you.

01:26Are they peeing in drinks or something?

01:28One of the most widely used red food colourings, carmine, is made from crushed up bugs. The

01:34bugs are called cochineal and they're native to Latin America, where they live on cacti.

01:40And they're a staple of the global food industry. And they're added to everything from yogurts,

01:44ice creams, fruit pies, cupcakes, donuts and soft drinks.

01:48No!

01:49I know, I didn't realise this. I've got a picture, do you want to see?

01:52Yeah.

01:53So that's what we've been drinking.

01:55You said it was red?

01:57Yeah, I think when they're crushed up they go red.

02:00Oh, that's awful.

02:01That is awful. You know what's crazy though? I am allergic to a certain type of red food dye,

02:07so I don't really eat red food dye things, so I think I might be safe.

02:12So you might be allergic to beetle juice, despite being in...

02:16You've never had cranberry juice? Pomegranate juice?

02:18Oh, don't do that.

02:19Yeah, never heard of Cosmo?

02:20Yeah, but cranberries are red.

02:22Cranberries are red, not everything is... He said red food dye.

02:25But they might have added some dye.

02:27I choose my own reality.

02:31Oh, who said you could do that?

02:39When you're all driving carpool and banging your Pilates instructors to fill the empty voids in your life,

02:44we'll see who gets the last laugh.

02:46Now Jenna, at NME we've been writing a lot of stuff about your music video with Sabrina Carpenter,

02:51but do you know that Katherine has also been in a music video with some very famous people?

02:57Do you know what I'm talking about, Katherine?

03:00No.

03:01Yes.

03:02It was quite famous at the time, I think.

03:04Canadian thing?

03:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:06Yeah, you didn't hear that, did you?

03:08I might as well have done this.

03:10You mean the...

03:12So it was this... Katherine, why didn't you explain to Jenna about it?

03:15It was the Canadian version of We Are The World.

03:18Oh, no.

03:20Yeah, how have you... Oh, because you're in music.

03:22Yeah, so it's...

03:23Oh, that's so hilarious.

03:24It's this 1985 charity single, which is a bit like...

03:27Come on, Corey Hart.

03:28Who else was in it?

03:30Neil Young.

03:31Oh, really?

03:32Yeah, Brian Adams.

03:33He was much cooler than I thought.

03:34Joni Mitchell.

03:35Okay, what was I doing?

03:36And you're singing on this as well.

03:37I know.

03:38What was I doing?

03:39So that's so cool.

03:40You just downplayed it heavily, that's so cool.

03:42That's really cool.

03:44I'm cooler than I thought.

03:46Sorry?

03:47Joni Mitchell, yeah.

03:48Yeah.

03:49Wow.

03:50So I've got a picture of it.

03:51I mean, it's so hard to find a picture.

03:53Oh, no, let's see it.

03:54Can you find yourself?

03:55I love your references.

03:56Can you find us?

03:57I see Joni instantly.

03:58My eye just went...

03:59You go to Joni first.

04:00Oh, there you are.

04:01Wait, your cover...

04:02I'm way back somewhere.

04:03Too back from Joni, I think.

04:05Really?

04:06Yeah, I found you before you found yourself.

04:08Well, I've got glasses on, so I don't know.

04:10She's right there.

04:11Half her face is covered.

04:12Half her face is covered.

04:13I don't recognize you.

04:14Glasses in it, glasses in it.

04:15What was it like being in a recording studio?

04:17It was really cool.

04:18Is that Ronnie Spector?

04:19I know.

04:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:21I think I was just really nervous.

04:22That's why I don't even remember who was there.

04:24That's so cool.

04:25Because it was just...

04:26What am I doing here?

04:27You couldn't see behind that hair.

04:29Really.

04:30My friend Robin's in there, and I'd point her out if I could see.

04:34And we met in the first year of high school,

04:37and then she became an actress, I became an actress.

04:40She did Saturday Night Live.

04:42We both did SCTV, whatever.

04:43And then all of a sudden we're in this room with these people.

04:45So the two of us were just like, can you believe we're here?

04:47Can you believe we're here?

04:48That's all I remember.

04:49But yeah, it was pretty cool, yeah, I just thought.

04:52Thank you for reminding me of that.

04:54That's cool.

04:55If you don't know, look up my sister, Mary Margaret O'Hara.

04:58Amazing singer.

04:59Made an album many years ago, Virgin Mary.

05:01It's still on top 100 lists.

05:03People, really cool.

05:04Way ahead of her time.

05:05Time to be found.

05:06The album's called Miss America.

05:07Mary Margaret O'Hara.

05:08Black Rider sister.

05:09We've talked a lot about the 90s bands and artists

05:13that have inspired your character Astrid in this film,

05:16but NME has had quite a big week

05:18because a certain band called Oasis have announced that they've reunited.

05:22And I wondered, as Americans, whether you guys have heard about that.

05:26No, I had no idea.

05:28I had no idea that they were back.

05:30That's insane.

05:31Blur or Oasis, Catherine?

05:33Oasis.

05:35What are you asking me?

05:38It's a feud.

05:39I love how you immediately went for that.

05:41It's a feud.

05:42I don't partake in taking sides when there's a feud.

05:45You just did.

05:46Write it down.

05:47She said Oasis.

05:48I thought you were asking which band he was talking about.

05:51He's talking about Oasis.

05:53You've got to answer that yourself now, Jenna.

05:56Can I be honest?

05:57I actually just heard Wonderwall for the first time a month ago.

06:00I actually sat down and listened to the whole thing.

06:02It was like a thing.

06:03I got attacked about it for not knowing it by X.

06:08Oh, stop.

06:09I listened to Blur.

06:12I haven't really gotten into Oasis.

06:14I just love that you got attacked.

06:16Yeah, but again, I don't really have the history of Oasis

06:19and Oasis listening to really say.

06:21I just remember their haircuts.

06:23Same kind of Roman look.

06:25Same kind of what look?

06:28The Roman look.

06:29That early George Clooney look.

06:31Oh, really?

06:32That's what their hair do.

06:33I thought you meant like Romans were like ancient Romans.

06:36Roman soldiers?

06:38Crucify him.

06:39No.

06:42Okay, I wasn't expecting that answer, but that was weird.

06:45Thanks so much for speaking to me today.

06:47Yeah, thank you.

06:53The juice is loose.

07:02The juice is loose.

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