‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Breakout Arthur Conti on Starring Alongside Jenna Ortega in His First Film Role: ‘It’s Hard to Believe’
variety.comAlex Ritman “This really is my first everything,” admits Arthur Conti. “Everything is so new to me.” The young British actor isn’t exaggerating.
When we meet at Soho House in London, he’s sporting the sort of wide-eyed expression of someone trying to come to terms with a couple of life-changing weeks that might be difficult to put into words.
For starters, Conti recently got back from the Venice Film Festival premiere of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” alongside director Tim Burton and fellow castmembers Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe. “And also Sigourney Weaver’s there, and Isabelle Huppert and Taylor Russell and all these people watching me on a very big screen… and then there’s all this clapping … it’s hard to believe,” he says.
The disbelief is understandable. Because not only did Venice mark Conti’s “first ever film festival,” but the gothic comedy sequel — a project that has been in development for considerably longer than Conti’s 20 years of age — was, quite literally, his “first ever film.” But it’s a solid-sized and potentially breakout role for someone who’s only previous on-screen experience was playing a queen’s page in the first season of “House of the Dragon” (“one episode, one scene, two lines,” he notes).
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