WARNING: This post may contain spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Continue at your own risk!
Santiago Cabrera is one of the actors who joined the cast of the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!
The movie is now in theaters and many fans may be wondering who Astrid’s (Jenna Ortega) father is.
As we’ve previously learned, she is the daughter of Winona Ryder‘s Lydia Deetz, and the 46-yaer-old Chilean actor portrays her father Richard!
Keep reading to find out more about him (spoiler alert)…
Early on in the film, we learn that her father Richard died in a boating accident and he’s seen just through old family photos.
SPOILER ALERT! When Astrid is tricked into entering the afterlife, she runs into her father, who is now working in the immigration unit. He helps her escape the afterlife and go back to the real world.
“I got to play a small part in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice coming out in September. I can’t say more on the role,” he told THR. “But just to be a part of Tim Burton’s world and in his playground — and meet him and play with him, and see how the whole thing is done — was incredible. I see the trailer coming out now and I’m fanning out on it. I would be excited for it regardless. It’s the first time I’ve ever been a part of something that I was genuinely an enormous fan of, because I watched that movie as a kid like seven or eight times. It was one of those on-repeat things. So this was very exciting.”
If Santiago looks familiar to you, he’s appeared in several projects of over the years, most recently with recurring roles on TV shows Land of Women on Apple TV+ and The Cleaning Lady on Fox.
His other TV credits include Neon, The Flight Attendant, Star Trek: Picard, Big Little Lies, Salvation, The Musketeers and Dexter.
Santiago‘s movie credits include Disney’s Godmothered, Transformers: The Last Knight and Love and Other Disasters.
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