Move over, Michael Douglas. Michael Keaton wants to start using his real name
As a movie enthusiast with years of immersion in the silver screen world, I find the news about Michael Keaton’s desire to add his father’s last name to his stage name intriguing. It’s always fascinating to see how artists choose to reinvent themselves or pay homage to their roots.
Michael Keaton. Michael Douglas. Michael Keaton Douglas?
Michael Keaton, famously known for his role in “Beetlejuice,” expresses interest in incorporating his birth surname into his professional identity. However, he clarifies that this doesn’t mean abandoning the name Keaton entirely; instead, he plans to use both Keaton and Douglas professionally.
The Emmy-winning actor known by the stage name “Michael Keaton” since the 1970s has expressed interest in combining parts of his well-known alias with his father’s surname, potentially adopting the name Michael Keaton Douglas.
In conversation, Keaton mentioned that he initially intended to employ a triple-named moniker for his latest directorial project, the psychological thriller “Knox Goes Away.” However, due to the pressure of producing the film, he apparently slipped up and failed to remember this plan.
Keaton remarked, “I casually mentioned, ‘By the way, my credit is going to be like Michael Keaton Douglas.’ However, things spiraled out of control, and I neglected to provide them sufficient time to incorporate it. But such incidents happen.” On his 73rd birthday, which fell on Thursday.
The actor’s professional name has its own storied lore.
Keaton mentioned that he might have chosen his stage name randomly from a phone book during the early stages of his career. Since the Screen Actors Guild already had another Michael Douglas (the “Wall Street” Oscar winner), he was not permitted to use his birth name. Interestingly, Kirk Douglas, who is well-known as Keaton’s father, also changed his own name from Issur Danielovitch Demsky.
As a movie enthusiast, I found myself in the shoes of Keaton, a man who, like many others embracing stage names, had to pick his unique identifier. For “Night Shift,” “Mr. Mom,” “Beetlejuice,” “Batman,” and the Oscar-nominated “Birdman,” it was an unanticipated source that led me to my defining moniker.
He shared with People that he had been searching through what seemed to be a directory, but he couldn’t recall if it was a phone book exactly. He then said something like, “I need to come up with an answer,” and after a moment of thought, he concluded, “That seems plausible.
It’s understandable, but unfortunately, the comedian Keaton isn’t biologically related to the actress Diane Keaton (originally named Diane Hall) from “Annie Hall.
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2024-09-07 14:09