{"id":123033,"date":"2024-09-05T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/michael-keaton-wants-to-start-using-his-birth-name-michael-douglas\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:06:30","slug":"michael-keaton-wants-to-start-using-his-birth-name-michael-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/michael-keaton-wants-to-start-using-his-birth-name-michael-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Keaton wants to start using his birth name Michael Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Michael Keaton wants to start using his real name, Michael Douglas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Michael Keaton is planning to go by the name Michael Keaton Douglas<\/p>\n

The ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ star, 73, hasn’t been allowed to go by his birth name due to it being the same as 79-year-old Oscar winner Michael Douglas<\/a>, 79, and late daytime host Mike Douglas, a decision cast by the Screen Actors Guild.<\/p>\n

However, he has come up with a way around it and plans to be credited as Michael Keaton<\/a> Douglas.<\/p>\n

Recalling how he picked his fake surname, Keaton \u2013 who was born Michael John Douglas – told PEOPLE magazine: \u201cI was looking through – I can\u2019t remember if it was a phone book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must\u2019ve gone, \u2018I don\u2019t know, let me think of something here.\u2019 And I went, \u2018Oh, that sounds reasonable.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe ‘Batman’ star had intended to use Michael Keaton Douglas for his director credit for 2023 crime thriller ‘Knox Goes Away’, but didn’t manage to sort it out on time.<\/p>\n

\nHe explained: \u201cI said, \u2018Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.’ <\/p>\n

\n“And it totally got away from me. And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that. But that will happen.”<\/p>\n

\nThe ‘Jack Frost’ star \u2013 who is credited as Michael Keaton for his latest movie, the \u2018Beetlejuice\u2019 sequel – previously denied choosing Keaton because he had a crush on actress Diane Keaton, 78.<\/p>\n

\nIn an interview with the now-defunct sports and pop-culture blog Grantland, he said: “I feel bad! She\u2019s probably badly bugged by that story! The truth is I\u2019m trying to figure out how John Cougar Mellencamp did it, because I like my name, I\u2019m proud of my name. Douglas, you know, it\u2019s my Dad\u2019s name.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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