After five decades in show business, he wants to use his original moniker again.
Michael Keaton shared that when he got his start in the entertainment industry, there was already a famous actor with his name.is ready to return to his roots, more specifically, his birth name. The"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" star shared that after five decades in show business playing several iconic characters like Batman and Beetlejuice, he wants to use his original moniker—Michael Douglas—again.
Moving forward, Keaton plans to be credited professionally as Michael Keaton Douglas, a combination of his stage name and his real name.The Oscar-nominated actor said he planned to use the new name on his 2023 film"Knox Goes Away," which he directed and starred in, but noted that he simply “forgot” amid the chaos of making the film.“I said, ‘Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it totally got away from me,” he shared.
Keaton isn’t the first Hollywood A-lister to decide to revert back to their birth name in a professional setting., who coincidentally starred alongside Keaton in 2014’s"Birdman," previously announced her intentions of returning to her first name of Emily. "That would be so nice," she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published April 24."I would like to be Emily.""When I get to know them, people that I work with do," she explained."I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, 'I can't do it anymore. Just call me Emily.'"
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