We were all hanging the other day who was I talking to? Columbia Pictures, via Everett Collection, Michael Keaton, Revved Up and Ready to Tell Some Stories. Maybe Ill tell ya another time. Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. [29] When Touch and Go was finally released in 1986 the studio was still unsure of how to market the film, making the poster, trailer and TV spots similar to Mr. I get like that. Huey Lewis, yeah. I lost my nephew Michael to drugs, and it hurts.. Im not trying to save any kind of reputation. I dont know. I always felt like I disappointed Cher. With Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah. One unique advantage of doing a scripted series, said the shows creator, Danny Strong, was being able to go inside the room with Purdue executives. Rosario Dawson plays a D.E.A. I read some old magazine profile of you where you made passing mention about bombing as a young comedian onstage in Las Vegas. And Andy was right about a lot of stuff that Id thought: I dont know if you should do that with this guy. Yeah, and this was in old Vegas. [65][66], He was set to reprise the character in Batgirl starring Leslie Grace, set for a release on HBO Max,[67] taking some inspiration from the acclaimed DC Animated Universe animated series, Batman Beyond, with Keaton playing the elder Bruce Wayne as the title character's mentor and remote coordinator in the Batcave. I was going to ask if you could use one to describe where you are in your career now. I was always afraid that the fun would go away. So I went home and read it, and I went, I dont think hes going to want me to do this after I say what I think. Then we met and I go, I think the character is this, this, this and this. I remember Tims hair was really long, and hes looking at me, and as Im talking his hair is flapping up and down, like nodding woo woo, and I went, I guess hes thinking like Im thinking. [31][32] Warner Bros. received thousands of letters of complaint by fans who believed Keaton was the wrong choice to portray Batman. Anyone can read what you share. The conversation between you two is just joke after joke after joke, and the one time where you came on walking on your hands? Then you get onstage, and theyre there to see Cher. So you can say: Theres that. I hope people will understand that many people were addicted through no fault of their own but because of Purdue pushing the message that opioids were now safe. That quality is on display in various forms in his recent work as a contract killer in the thriller The Protg, released in August; as Kenneth Feinberg, the real-life lawyer in charge of dispensing the 9/11 victims compensation fund in Worth, which premieres on Netflix Sept. 3; and as a small-town doctor whose eyes gradually open to the opioid crisis in the Hulu limited series Dopesick, slated for release on Oct. 13. Im just trying to get a handle. [39], In the early 2000s, Keaton appeared in several films with mixed success, including Live From Baghdad (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award[40]), First Daughter (playing the President of the United States), White Noise and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Meanwhile, in the Appalachian community where Finnix and Betsy live, Oxy has taken over. The best way to prevent fentanyl use is to educate your loved ones, including teens, about it. Cocreators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, plus star Dominique Fishback, get candid about the wild new series that is a sister to, increasingly popular prestige television crutch, a year after he oversaw the approval of OxyContin. Ive watched some of your old stand-up but you know what really killed me? Watching your Letterman appearances from the early 80s. [46], Keaton starred alongside Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts in Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), playing Riggan Thomson, a screen actor, famous for playing the iconic titular superhero, who puts on a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story to regain his former glory. Keaton, who is also an executive producer, was motivated to participate in the series partly because a nephew of his died from fentanyl and heroin use. I was just commenting on the vibe. On May 6, 2022, it was reported that Keaton is set to star in and direct the noir thriller, Knox Goes Away.[70]. So anyway, that was traumatic. Thats a whole other conversation. He popped up in various popular TV shows including Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Its crazy. Addicts have quickly figured out how to dupe doctors into writing them prescriptions. Were sitting around telling these stories, how fly fishermen do, and I said, Most of my fishing stories, theyre seldom about catching fish. However, probably the best fish I ever caught was a steelhead up in British Columbia with a broken rod that I had to hold together in two pieces. Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony For A Ride In Hollywood. Then she started telling me how much time she wanted me to do, and I went, [expletive], I dont have this. Michael was not, however, a big fan of attention and would likely be horrified by names, buildings or events bearing his name, she laughs. [76] Despite his political outspokenness during the 2020 election, Keaton later stated that it's better for celebrities not to speak about politics. (Several states have said they will appeal the settlement.). But Keaton didnt pass on the opportunity to play Samuel Finnix, a fictional doctor in a Virginia mining town plagued by the onset of the opioid epidemic and one I pretty much and Im not saying this out of, well, wait a minute, maybe I am saying it out of braggadocio. His family are speaking out about how drugs killed his namesake nephew in 2016. Mr Scichilone, of Mt Lebonan, Pennsylvania, was a victim of the opioid epidemic who died in 2016; he was known for being great with children, especially his nephew, Cash, who is pictured, To support such families, in her brothers memory, Meghan and her family started the Michael Douglas Scichilone Foundation just months after his untimely death. My mom thought she was alone in struggling with that stuff. He had previously received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in Live from Baghdad (2002) and five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, which ultimately yielded four wins for his performances in Birdman, Spotlight, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Dopesick. I think I invested myself more. In an excellent, charismatic turn, Rosario Dawson plays Bridget Meyer, a DEA investigator who finds the tentacles of Purdue Pharmas influence everywhere she turns. There are things I did because I thought they had to be out there. The disease of being a morose comic? It was like, Whoa, wait a minute, this is big. Ive been like that since I was a little kid. The truth becomes clear as Finnix watches one patient after another including an injured young coal miner played by Kaitlyn Dever becomes addicted. Theres a passage in the piece you wrote for that book about fishing, Astream: If youre doing it right, the longer you live, the more you become just who you really are. Are you becoming closer to who you really are? So at the time Cher if youre enough of an entertainment nerd youll probably remember there was this phase where Cher really wanted to be a rocker, and shes kind of not. You know, so a couple occasions where, you know, people were kinda-- not just, maybe did more than doubt you. Hopefully, the earlier that we can diagnose people with addiction issues and with mental health issues, we can really slow this down. (Macy and Keaton are executive producers, as is showrunner Danny Strong.) Im a [expletive] hitter. Then you go, I can hit that. So you just hang in there. Morbius sees the titular doctor, Michael Morbius, suffering from a rare blood disease. [Laughs.] When I say I chased this fish down: in and out of a drift boat five or six times. [52] In 2020, Keaton played U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a legal drama directed by Aaron Sorkin about seven anti-Vietnam protesters charged with inciting riots in 1968. [13][14][15] Keaton attended Montour High School in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. What Dopesick does best is slowly unfold the breathtaking scope of the drugs impacttying together the story of growing addiction and Purdue Pharmas rapacious marketing. She sees me and says: Hes funny. Name: Michael Keaton Birth Year: 1951 Birth date: September 5, 1951 Birth State: Pennsylvania Birth City: Coraopolis Birth Country: United States Gender: Male Michael Stuhlbarg, center, as Richard Sackler. You know, the imagery does seem weird. On July 28, 2016, Keaton was honored with the 2,585th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to film. He always kind of treated them like they were small adults.. [43] Keaton provided the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3 (2010). Hed hate it, she says. Ive always thought, without sounding self-serving here, that its important to be able to say, If it all falls apart tomorrow, at least I did something that maybe meant something to someone. Dopesick is personal. Mr. Keaton bought the property for about $5 million in 2016, and used it as a weekend getaway while he was at his home in Californias Pacific Palisades area, Ms. Stahl said. The 9-minute film was released to coincide with Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Im too antsy to sit around anyway. Letterman appearances from the early 80s. You kinda go, Am I a bullshitter right now? But you say, Hey, man, Im fortunate enough to have a gig. And I pass up a lot of work. Sitting on your couch, remote in hand, you could select a drama about a bullying, obscenely affluent family that is riven by internal strife but revels in asserting its wealth and power, even if people die. Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. Whats your function in life? Fox and Tracy Pollan met on a show called Family Ties. Im developing this thing with Jay Roach and Owen Burke and Adam McKay. [17], Keaton first appeared on TV in the Pittsburgh public television programs Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975). If youre concerned that a loved one could be exposed to fentanyl, you may want to buy naloxone. A terminally ill man prepares for his death. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Its not like a weird Hollywood family or anything., She adds: Whatever my uncle does to bring awareness to the epidemic and the issue, thats a positive.. A lot of care went into picking the right actress to play Alex P. Keaton's Honest to God. "Dopesick" star Michael Keaton knows the heartbreak of addiction all too well. Even as doctors and investigators questioned the safety of the drug, it was so ubiquitous that they were being offered it for their own medical care. They blamed the wrong people and got away with it, Macy said. That settlement made the timing of the new series all the more important to its producers. Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. The doctor in Dopesick or Ken Feinberg in Worth are both sort of authority figures, which can be said of a lot of the characters youve played since Birdman. But earlier in your career sorry for using that word pretty much from Night Shift to The Paper you tended to play anti-authority types. Now, theres probably some kind of stupid pride that would make me say, man, the guy in The Paper is certainly not like the guy in Night Shift, and Beetlejuice wasnt like anything else. Keaton had a relationship with actress Courteney Cox from 199095. I could have turned somebody around. People have come up to me about My Life and certain things that Ive done and commented on what it meant to them. Watch the exclusive trailer for the sharp upcoming series, starring Washington as a single mom whose father (Delroy Lindo) comes to live with her after being released from prison. say they bear no responsibility for the crisis, sweeping protections built into a bankruptcy settlement, a 120-page Justice Department report from 2006, reached record highs in the United States in 2021, drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealers, a uniquely misleading F.D.A.-approved label, safe to sell over the counter without a prescription, By far the largest factor is drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl, expand the use of medication to treat substance use disorders in pregnant women. I get embarrassed using the word career. Once you start talking like that you have a self-consciousness about it, and it takes away from: Whats the thing you really are supposed to do? Heres the deal: Everything comes down to the question of what do you want? James Gunn Unveils Revamped DC Studios Universe Featuring, Elizabeth Olsen Becomes Killer Candy Montgomery in, The NBCUniversal streamer was an afterthought when it launched in 2020. Only take pills that were prescribed by your doctor and came from a licensed pharmacy. In 2014 he played the OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars in the RoboCop remake as a more active antagonist, taking RoboCop's wife and child hostage, forcing Joel Kinnaman's character to struggle to overcome the 4th directive. While he continued to receive good notices from the critics (particularly for Jackie Brown), he was not able to re-approach the box-office success of Batman until the release of Disney/Pixar's Cars (2006), in which he voiced Chick Hicks, a green race car with a mustache, who frequently loses his patience with losing to his longtime rival, Strip Weathers, a.k.a. This was his breakout role as the fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski and earned Keaton some critical acclaim.[28]. Im not sure I totally follow but Can I add this? Initial footage from The Flash trailer hints that Michael Keaton's early '90s Batman faked his death, according to a popular theory. Alternative Title: Michael John Douglas. Michael Keaton, in full Michael John Douglas, (born September 5, 1951, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American actor who began his career in mostly comedic roles but later found success in dramas. Maybe I did. She says shed want to say to other families that they should simply strive to keep hanging in there and just helping and talking and realising, its not just you and theres nothing wrong with your kid. He was a huge sports fan and, like, knew every Steelers statistic inside and out starting in the Sixties, says his sister, 43. WebKeaton revealed that Michael battled an addiction to fentanyl and heroin, which resulted in his death in Pennsylvania in 2016. Im going to keep sidetracking now thats your influence, by the way. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. For us, I think that Michael self-medicated in some capacity and so I think its so important for people to get the health care, the mental health [care] they need and deserve. So Im doing a little more of that just for me. At least I did that.. Its not even funny. It's only fitting that Michael J. The first Batman I didnt think was going to happen because when Tim Burton called me, he said, I want to talk about this thing. I go, Cool, what do you got? He tells me and I go, Wow. He said, Go home and read this script. We had developed a relationship. Michael Keaton thought he knew the basics of the vast opioid crisis crippling this country-until he signed on to star in the Hulu limited series Dopesick. In hindsite, he says, I didnt know how it really worked, what really happened or how it was formed. Im really fortunate I have a job where you have to learn something. Oh, sorry. Then, that wasnt it. Some of the most painful moments of the series come when people who know better are swept up by the pills incredibly addictive qualities anyway. Its not like people were writhing on the floor with laughter ever but I go, no, this works. I dont think I believe that I have a responsibility exactly, but you wouldnt want to leave the world going: I could have been a mensch. I dont know how you are about this, but I never got the whole fascination with the superhero thing. In the shows first few episodes, its especially disorienting. In Dopesick, when you talk about addiction, the way to heal the problem is to accept that you have a problem, he said. I dont think print serves that question, to be really honest with you. Like Im involved with this environmentally conscientious construction company. Michael Keaton: You know, I have a long memory. He was reportedly dissatisfied with the screenplay approved by the new director, Joel Schumacher. He starred in The Paper and Multiplicity, and twice in the same role, that of Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in the films Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. The Hulu limited series offers an on-the-ground view of how Purdue Pharmas drug created the opioid crisis. Once the role was retooled to be a long-running series regular, Keaton withdrew. (Purdue pleaded guilty then to a felony charge of misbranding OxyContin; three of the companys executives each pleaded guilty to a related misdemeanor.). Keaton described his nephew as a loyal and great friend who was a huge sports fan and had a great sense of humor. Protesters in 2019 outside a courthouse in Boston, Mass., where a judge heard arguments in a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. What people dont know is, I never left; I was always picking up a little gig here and there. The idea that your frontal lobe is altered and can take two years to get back from that shocked me, Strong said. Keaton was married to Caroline McWilliams from 198290. After all these years, if youre going to do this again, be respectful to the character and the movie. After becoming known for his hyper-comedic performances in the early 80s, Keaton switched to dramatic roles first as a recovering drug addict in Clean And Sober He then decided that intercutting between Purdues internal machinations and the people suffering in Finch Creek would offer a true understanding of what happened.. I love nature and being outside. But the bigger distinction is that Dopesick, while a scripted drama, is about a real-life familys alleged role in creating one of the biggest public health catastrophes in American history: the opioid crisis. Keaton later portrayed Stan Hurley in American Assassin. Ad Choices. Doing a scripted series also offered the unique advantage, Strong said, of putting the viewer inside of rooms with the Purdue executives as they discuss their manipulative marketing campaigns. Those scenes are not word-perfect recreations, Strong acknowledged, but they are based on mountains of existing research from Macy, who is an executive producer and helped write the series, and on additional research by Strong, Macy and others. He made the family holiday movie Jack Frost and the thriller Desperate Measures. Huey was there. [38], Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including Pacific Heights, One Good Cop, My Life and the star-studded Shakespearean story Much Ado About Nothing. Prescription drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealersmarketed as OxyContin, Vicodin and Xanax are often laced with fentanyl. His breakout role was as fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski in the 1982 comedy film Night Shift. Finnix is persuaded by aggressive Purdue salespeople that OxyContin is a miracle drug a powerful, long-acting painkiller that they insist is addictive in less than 1 percent of people who take it as prescribed. Picking that character up again 30-ish years later in The Flash, are you playing him as a continuation of that same guy or are you starting from scratch? The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood. That same year, he also gave an acclaimed dramatic performance as a drug-addicted realtor in Glenn Gordon Caron's Clean and Sober. A morose Peter Saarsgard plays the similarly frustrated U.S. attorney Rick Mountcastle, whose efforts to build a case are hindered by how carefully the pharmaceutical company has covered its tracks. He was just very knowledgeable with all those things. That sounds so cavalier: I was bored. But I probably did get a little bored with myself. You dont mean Huey Lewis? Im here. The influence of Michael Keatons starring role in director Tim Burtons 1989 big screen bonanza, Batman, remains powerful. Based largely on the 2018 book by Beth Macy, the show seeks to dramatize how members of the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma, aided by lax regulations, pushed OxyContin onto the public starting in the 1990s. Their interests are their interests. Like what? Is there a story there? I know theres an element of randomness to the roles an actor ends up taking, but youve done Dopesick and Worth and The Trial of the Chicago 7 all relatively close to each other. When I get involved like that creatively, I get excited again. [36] Keaton later reprised the role for the sequel Batman Returns (1992), which was another critically acclaimed success. Man, I miss that stuff so much. From the late 90s through the 00s, Oxycontin addiction ravaged entire communities, turning them into the epicenter of an opioid crisis that is still raging today. Poulters character, a salesman named Billy, is assigned to Keatons character to make sure the family doctor keeps prescribing the drug. The label was based not on findings from clinical trials but on a theory advanced by Purdue that the drug was less addictive than shorter-acting pain killers. I think her thinking was, Lets go hipper, lets go young, because Im Cher and Im going to do my rock tunes. Theres not a lot of room in between., I can feel right now the rolling thunder of eye-rolling coming across people saying to me things like, Shut up and dribble, Shut up and act. The acting Ill quit. No one is paying attention., Dopesick Uses Drama, and Michael Keaton, to Give the Opioid Crisis a Human Face, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/arts/television/dopesick-hulu-michael-keaton.html. Yes. Mom. [35], According to Les Daniels's reference book Batman: The Complete History, Keaton initially believed the film would be similar in tone to the 1960s TV series starring Adam West but he understood the darker, brooding side of Batman the film was going for after reading Frank Miller's comic book miniseries, The Dark Knight Returns, which he portrayed to much fan approval. It also meant being sure to include certain details to help clarify the record, like Richard Sacklers well-documented directive in a 2001 email to hammer on abusers and portray them as culprits. Keaton and Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight (2015). The state has been one of the hardest hit by the crisis; in 2018, opioids were involved in nearly 70 per cent of Pennsylvania overdose deaths, according to government figures. He was very, very vain and handsome and funny and all those things, but definitely shy [and] would not want any attention very private.. We do it to raise awareness and to make sure that Michaels name and legacy live on and that something positive comes from something terrible, she says. You got a good fishing story? Her mother, Pamela Douglas is his sister; Mr Keatons original last name was Douglas, too, but there was already a very well-known Michael Douglas in the actors guild. No. Given the subject matter, this is for my nephew Michael and my sister Pam, the 70-year-old actor said. He was such a sports guy.. [55] Keaton cites his performance in 1988's Clean and Sober as an early preparation for Dopesick. "[24][25] Keaton has said in several interviews that he searched a phone book under "K," saw "Keaton" and decided to stop looking. I mean, Thomas McGuane, hes an old friend. Throw a little money in the bank. Night Shift led to Keaton becoming a leading man in the 1983 comedy hit Mr. A few years ago in an interview you said that there was a point in your career, I guess it was in the mid-2000s before you sort of disappeared for a while, where you got tired of your own voice. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. "Burton's Batman: Myth, Marketing, and Merchandising." I kind of obsess over that, which is not good, and I do my little things under the radar with guys like Jim Messina. Its hard to think of another actor capable of, say, the manically riffing poltergeist he played in Beetlejuice (1988) and the layered gravitas of a latter-day role like his hard-nosed Boston Globe editor Walter Robinson in Spotlight (2015). 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