Jenna Ortega confirms the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice character that fans suspected

Jenna Ortega may be three syllables away from summoning a very boorish ghoul every time she says the new name of her new film, but even this dire conundrum isn’t stopping her from telling the world how excited she is for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to finally hit theaters. (Oops! Now we’re all in it together.)

“I had always loved the movie… that’s why I was excited that they were bringing it back as well,” the Wednesday actor said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. “I feel like studios nowadays, of course they want people in seats and you’ve got to do reboots or sequels or things like that to get people entwined, but to bring Beetlejuice back—of all of the stories—is so good because people need to revisit weird, strange, off-putting stories again.”

“The weirder you get with it, the more people you can get to see it, I think will probably do a lot for film in general,” she continued. Director Tim Burton, and Betelgeuse himself, Michael Keaton, have shared a similar sentiment, speaking about the beauty of foregoing CGI, green screens, and other modern technology to return to an era of filmmaking that felt a lot more “handmade.” (The name is spelled differently when referring to the character, by the way. That doesn’t count as number three!) Keaton recently told People that this production, which wrapped its last day and a half almost immediately when the strikes ended, was “the most fun I’ve had on set in a long time.” “What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you, to watch everybody in the shrunken head room and say, ‘Those are people under there, operating these things, trying to get it right,’” he elaborated.

Ortega also spoke to the scale of the film’s practical effects; the Burton-led production even transformed the real-life town of East Corinth, VT into the fictional Winter River, CT just like the first film. This unfortunately wasn’t all perfect—Ortega recalled a “super-weird energy” on set as the cast rushed through the sentimental experience so they could tear the set down before the strikes—but, she said, “for the most part, up until the very last day, I feel like the shoot was a celebration of everyone being back together and doing practical effects again.” “It was probably the happiest I had ever seen Tim on a set,” she continued. “He’s clapping at the monitor and shouting and laughing, which was really, really endearing.”

Ortega also confirmed a long-running rumor that her character Astrid is indeed Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) daughter. (Catherine O’Hara will also be returning to the franchise along with Ryder and Keaton.) While Ortega confirmed that Astrid won’t be “bright and sunny” at all—she’s not straying too far from her Wednesday roots—she is still “a little bit against my mom’s history or past.” “We butt heads quite a bit,” she added. Teenage daughters are terrifying, but Lydia’s dealt literal sandworms so we’re sure she’ll be fine.

We also somehow managed to reach the end of this article without summoning the ghost with the most, so we’ll leave you with this: [Redacted Redacted] hits theaters September 6. Just make sure you buy your tickets online so you don’t have to say it out loud.