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Is Michael Keaton Really Changing His Stage Name? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Michael Keaton has top
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Speaker 1: billing in the new sequel Beetle Juice. Beetle Juice, but
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Speaker 1: it may be the very last time you ever see
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Speaker 1: his name on a movie poster or marquee. It isn't
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Speaker 1: because he's retiring. It's because he's seriously considered changing his
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Speaker 1: stage name. Michael Keaton isn't his birth name. He's actually
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Speaker 1: Michael Douglas. But since another Michael Douglas was already working
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood, yes, the real famous one, he was forced
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Speaker 1: by the acting unions to pick another name. He tells people.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was a phone book, but
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Speaker 1: I was looking through something and saw Keaton. I had
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Speaker 1: been thinking, I need to come up with something here,
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Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, Keaton sounds reasonable. Michael had actually
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Speaker 1: meant to implement the change first with his directorial debut
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Speaker 1: last year. Knox goes Away, adding, I told the team, hey,
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Speaker 1: just as a warning, my credit will be Michael Keaton Douglas,
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Speaker 1: and it totally got away from me. I forgot to
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Speaker 1: give them enough time to put it in. But that
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Speaker 1: will happen. You can catch Michael Keaton or Michael Keaton
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Speaker 1: Douglas in Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice out now, that's direct from Hollywood.