In the opening sequence “Bug Juice Bug JuiceViewers met Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz nearly 35 years after we last saw her.

Lydia currently hosts a reality show called “Ghost House” and frequently sees visions of the foul-mouthed demon Beetlejuice in her audience. According to costume designer Colleen AtwoodThe gothic presenter’s outfit was inspired by none other than Elvira, the mistress of darkness. “We wanted to channel that kind of character for Lydia’s TV show,” Atwood said. I found this dress at a thrift store. It was a jersey dress and I made some changes to it; I added some cleavage and changed it up a bit.

Four-time Oscar winner honored diversity Creative Impact award in costume design. talk with Diversity -most SCAD Savannah Film FestivalAtwood said she never took things for granted and never assumed she would receive a call from the director. Tim Burton to call him.

“You never know what’s going to happen,” he told the audience of aspiring storytellers. But having worked together on more than a dozen projects, Burton almost always turns to it when assembling his team of craftsmen. Atwood has worked as the go-to costume designer on more than a dozen projects, including “Edward Scissorhands,” “Mars Attack” and Netflix’s “Wednesday.” Burton invited him to his home in London and informed him that he would work on a sequel to the 1988 film “Beetlejuice”.

Along with Ryder and Keaton, original star Catherine O’Hara also returns in the Supernatural sequel. Atwood’s approach to dressing these characters was simple. “It was about who these people were. “It’s like looking at your family, your weird relatives, through a lens,” he said.

Atwood did not design the original outfits for the 1988 film (it was Aggie Guerard Rodgers). As for Beetlejuice’s iconic white and black striped outfit, Atwood made a new one for him. He made it more molded and aged it a little more to reflect his time in the afterlife. “He’s a little seedier and a little older,” Atwood said. When I first met Michael, he was in really good shape, so I said, ‘We’re making you sick.’ He added that the character was probably sitting around doing nothing the entire time.

Atwood talked about her collaboration with Burton and her attitude towards costumes. “Many like to understand the fabrics they adopt. “I’ll watch his reaction to it and start building things that I feel he responds to positively,” he said.

Designing costumes for characters in the afterlife turned out to be a joint effort with Burton and make-up. They had to figure out different ways for characters to die and what that would look like. Appearances ranged from a person drowning while copying Houdini’s water torture trick, to someone trapped under a car, to someone being eaten by a shark. “You need to show how something is and see it right away,” Atwood said.