Michael Keaton

The actor, who played Batman in Batman and Batman Returns, has revealed an unexpected background to his film culture.

Michael Keaton, pseudonym of Michael John Douglas, is a well-known American actor with a long and intense career who only recently made a comeback thanks to the interpretation of Riggan Thompson in Birdman (2014) by Alejandro González Iñárritu, which earned him the victory as Best Actor in a Movie, Comedy or Music at the 2015 Golden Globes. 

That said, the famed Coraopolis native star is universally known for playing the Caped Crusader in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns on the big screen. (1992), both by Tim Burton. A truly fundamental part of his artistic life that in some way was, for a long time, his curse. Although the star has indelibly marked the world of cinecomics, he is not a great fan of it.

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In a recent interview for Variety, Michael Keaton himself stated that he has never fully seen a feature film inspired by a comic and that he has never fully watched a DC or Marvel title. The reason, however, is not due to haughty intellectualism, but simply because he has never really had time to devote himself to this activity. Below you will find his words in detail.

I know people don’t believe it, I’ve never seen a full version of any of those [Batman] movies, no Marvel movies, no other. And I’m not saying I don’t watch it because I’m an intellectual, trust me! That’s not it. It’s just that there are very few things I look at. I start watching something and I think it’s great and I watch three episodes, but I have more shit to do!

What to say? Michael Keaton was frighteningly sincere and this frankness is certainly appreciated, but we still hope that sooner or later he will be able to fill this particular cinematic gap.

Source: Variety