WARNING! This article contains major SPOILERS for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!The main source of tension between Lydia and Astrid Deetz is the fate of her deceased husband and father, Richard. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel brings Winona Ryder's Lydia to a very different place in life than when she was last seen. Beetlejuicethe end of when he returns Lydia is revealed to be a widow raising her teenage daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega).who doubts her mother's gift of nightmares and resents her for sending her to boarding school and refusing to talk about her father, Richard.
Lydia also reveals that her marriage to Richard ended several years before her death, but it is unclear whether Astrid's parents were officially divorced before her tragic death. After a long discussion about Astrid's father and Lydia's inability to see his soul, Richard finally joins her. Beetlejuice 2Cast of characters after Astrid goes to the afterlife. It turns out that his spirit works for Neitherworld's immigration office. Richard's grim appearance and fate give more context to what happened when he died In Tim Burton Beetlejuice continuation.
Astrid's father died in a boating accident in Brazil before Beetlejuice 2
Richard died fighting for Climate Justice in South America
Astrid confirms that her father died in a boating accident shortly before Charles Deetz's death began. Beetlejuice 2the story of At the time of his death, A. Richard was fighting for climate justice in Brazil when tragedy struck the ship he was onauthorities could not find his body. The appearance of Richard's soul in the afterlife reveals that he has been swallowed by the river and essentially turned into fish bait, with several small fish still clinging to his corpse, joining Astrid and Lydia in the Otherworld.
Although Lydia and Astrid have not been able to see Richard's spirit since his death, he reveals that he still checks on them often.
Jenna Ortega's character often remarks on the kind of person Richard is.free spirit” and has always fought for noble causes around the world, and it seems that his journey and Lydia's focus on living in New York Ghost House the show ended with their split. It appears since his death Richard is assigned to work in the immigration office of the afterlifestamping passports for souls to return to Earth or the Great Beyond. However, even though Lydia and Astrid have not been able to see Richard's ghost since he died, he reveals that he still checks on them often.
Richard is played by Santiago Cabrera
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Why didn't Lydia and Astrid see Richard's nightmare until they went to the afterlife
Richard's soul is not on earth, but in the afterlife
The rules of the afterlife and which souls can return to Earth become more complicated Beetlejuice 2. In the 1988 film, Adam and Barbara Maitland are forced to spend their first 125 years in their Winter River home after death, forcing them to try to scare the new Deetz family members out of the house. Teenage Lydia was the only person who could see the Maitlands at first because she was “more open to seeing”strange and unusual,” the ghosts could not control whether the living saw them or not.
Therefore It's not Richard's choice that Astrid and Lydia can't see himalthough the two Deetz women share the gift of seeing the dead. Again, Richard needed to “live” on the plane of the real world for Lydia and Astrid to see his spirit there, but Beetlejuice 2 he reveals that he is stuck in the bureaucracy of the afterlife. Richard “free spiritHe may not have a place on Earth for his soul like the Maitlands in Winter River and keeps his soul in the Netherworld.