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The actor who played Charles Deetz in the 1988 film “Beetlejuice” did not appear in the follow-up alongside Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara.
Jeffrey Is No Longer A Part of Beetlejuice Crew
Many recognizable faces can be found in the latest installment of the comedy-horror classic Beetlejuice. In addition to Winona Ryder, who plays Lydia Deetz’s ghostly empathy, and Catherine O’Hara, who plays her artistic stepmother Delia, both performers reprise their primary roles as the demonic title character, Michael Keaton.
However, Jeffrey Jones, who portrayed Deetz patriarch Charles in cult classic Beetlejuice directed by Tim Burton in 1988, is conspicuously absent from the film (currently playing in theaters). Probably due to Jones’ legal issues, the film finds a way to keep the actor who played Charles out of the film while still making him a significant part of the narrative.
Regarding Jones and his absence from the forthcoming movie, Burton and the Beetlejuice cast have not responded. But the way Charles’s fate is handled in the eagerly expected sequel might say it all.
Cover-Up For Jeffrey’s Character
Early on in the new film, Lydia is informed by Charles’ wife Delia that he has passed away. In order to describe the character’s fate—Charles ended up in the water when his plane crashed during a vacation abroad for bird watching—Burton employs stop-motion animation over her narration. He is killed when a shark chomps off his head and shoulders. At his funeral, the Deetz family grieves for their father.
However, Charles remains in the plot because the Beetlejuice universe features a campy portrayal of the bureaucratic afterlife. A body with its head and shoulders bitten off stumbles around in the underworld, gurgling blood somewhat erratically. One of Burton and his team’s many inventive designs for the recently deceased, who all have death signs on them, is voiced by an actor who is not Jones.
Controversy Of Jeffrey Jones
In 2003, Jones, who is already 77 years old, entered a plea of not guilty to accusations of possessing child pornography due to his alleged hiring of a 14-year-old kid to pose for explicit photos. The Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Amadeus star was given a five-year probationary period, treatment, and lifelong registration as a sex offender, as Entertainment Weekly reported at the time of the incident.
Jones was jailed twice in Florida in 2004 and California in 2010 for not updating his sex offender registration. According to BBC News, he was sentenced to years of probation and hours of community service after entering a guilty plea to the latter allegation.
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