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Michael Keaton Just Revealed How Hard Tim Burton Fought for Him to Play ‘Batman’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: When Michael Keaton was tapped by Tim Burton to play
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  Speaker 2: Beetlejuice in the new sequel, it was a pretty easy
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  Speaker 2: decision for the director since Michael was the guy who
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  Speaker 2: starred in the original, But Keaton recently took the time
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  Speaker 2: to thank Tim for another role that wasn't as obvious, Batman.
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  Speaker 2: When Burton was hired to direct the nineteen eighty nine
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  Speaker 2: superhero flick, he had built up so much chemistry with
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  Speaker 2: Michael and Beatlejuice, he hired him on to play Bruce Wayne.
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  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers received fifty thousand hate letters from fans and
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  Speaker 2: executives tried to demand a change. At Burton's recent star
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  Speaker 2: ceremony in the Hollywood Walking to Pay, Michael shared, Tim
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  Speaker 2: handed me the Batman script and goes, tell me what
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  Speaker 2: you think this is after Beatlejuice, go over the top
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  Speaker 2: performance and that type of movie. But he said to
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  Speaker 2: the studio, I want that guy. I'll never understand why
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  Speaker 2: anyone cared the uproar over it. You would have thought
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  Speaker 2: we were being invaded. It was unbelievable, but Tim stood
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  Speaker 2: by me the guts it took to stand by that
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  Speaker 2: decision will always be appreciated by me by the way
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  Speaker 2: their collaboration Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.