So when you asked yourself what you really wanted, what did you come up with? Im a news junkie. You know people take superhero movie stuff even more seriously than Jesus these days, right? [48] In 2015, Keaton appeared as Walter V. Robinson in Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film Spotlight, and in 2016, he starred as businessman Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder. [31][32] Warner Bros. received thousands of letters of complaint by fans who believed Keaton was the wrong choice to portray Batman. Maybe I am. 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. But I thought, Well, theyre going to see Cher so I dont have to do a lot of time. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. It doesnt bomb. And when I say I chased this fish down: giant, hot white-water stretch of the Sustut in British Columbia, for about over an eighth of a mile, maybe closer to a quarter of a mile, and landed it with a broken rod. When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue. 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. [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. We were all hanging the other day who was I talking to? I read some old magazine profile of you where you made passing mention about bombing as a young comedian onstage in Las Vegas. [50][51] In 2019, he played the villain in Disney's live-action adaptation of Dumbo directed by Tim Burton, co-starring with Colin Farrell and Eva Green. 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. 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Go to work. I would phone something in if I could. Michael Keaton talks about his return as Batman and the one thing that made him come back for The Flash.Keaton played Batman twice before for Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 and the sequel Batman Returns in 1992. So you can say: Theres that. Its not like people were writhing on the floor with laughter ever but I go, no, this works. (Macy and Keaton are executive producers, as is showrunner Danny Strong.) Michael was not, however, a big fan of attention and would likely be horrified by names, buildings or events bearing his name, she laughs. Im looking forward to a time when my work becomes other work, frankly. Richard Sackler is played by a brooding, nervy Michael Stuhlbarg, who leans into his roles villainy. Im really not bragging: What little act I had, I knew that some parts of it worked. The shutting up, not so much. He was a huge sports fan and, like, knew every Steelers statistic inside and out starting in the Sixties, says his sister, 43. A terminally ill man prepares for his death. [42], Keaton starred in the 2007 TV miniseries The Company, set during the Cold War, in which he portrayed the real-life CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton. I dont know. Im developing this thing with Jay Roach and Owen Burke and Adam McKay. You become consumed by the addiction, Keaton said in a recent phone interview. The best way to prevent fentanyl use is to educate your loved ones, including teens, about it. Simon & Schuster. People forget about you, and Im off doing other things. [7][8] His father, George A. Douglas (19051977), worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, and his mother, Leona Elizabeth (ne Loftus; 19092002), was a homemaker, and came from McKees Rocks. Hes such a familiar, even nostalgic, figure at this point that its easy to take his uniqueness for granted. The job at hand is to be the doctor and get back to work. Ive been like that since I was a little kid. Once the role was retooled to be a long-running series regular, Keaton withdrew. I dont get to talk about this very often with people. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Published Oct 31, 2021. Im blessed-slash-cursed with a bit of a chip on my shoulder. They blamed the wrong people and got away with it, Macy said. He told me a while back, he said, You need to write. 1988 was the seminal year in Keaton's career where he landed two major unconventional roles, forever changing his image to audiences. Nancy Griffin; Kim Masters (1997). [Laughs.] Letterman appearances from the early 80s. That was not it. In 2021, he starred in the Hulu limited series Dopesick for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Do the thing. First of all 100 percent true absolutely no cocaine was involved. Multiplicity is one of my favorites, too, and thats different. The idea that your frontal lobe is altered and can take two years to get back from that shocked me, Strong said. I said, Look, if this wasnt well written or if they were saying youve got to kind of work for free, Im not going to lie to you and say I would have done it, but, that said, the No. Fentanyl, really. He was reportedly dissatisfied with the screenplay approved by the new director, Joel Schumacher. The influence of Michael Keatons starring role in director Tim Burtons 1989 big screen bonanza, Batman, remains powerful. I thought I would write early on, and I quit because Im lazy. This series is the trial that should have happened, said Danny Strong (Empire), who created and oversaw the show, which debuted Wednesday. I have wide interests, or catholic interests, as they say, and when youre like that, you reach a point where you go, OK, I still have to make a living so I have to take certain acting jobs, and you try to do your best. At the moral center of Dopesick is Dr. Samuel Finnix, a family practitioner in the fictional Appalachian town of Finch Creek, Va., played by Michael Keaton. [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. Theres something to getting older, says Keaton, a digressive and keyed-up talker, who paced nonstop through his Montana home as we spoke via Zoom. You got a good fishing story? She was playing the part, though. Burton exited the third film, replaced by Joel Schumacher, who had a very different take on the material, prompting On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. When I hear people talk about stand-up, no one really gets unless youre in that world what that world really is; what you have to do if you want to be really good and how serious it can get. Fentanyl is a potent and fast-acting drug, two qualities that also make it highly addictive. [68] The film was cancelled in August 2022. When I get involved like that creatively, I get excited again. I was doing some things, I was picking up a little bit of work. But the macro is looking at all the corporations that have caused exponential damage, especially to lower- and middle-class people and their communities., Randy Ramseyer, the assistant U.S. attorney played by Hoogenakker in the series, said in an email that he didnt want viewers to blame one family and forget all the systemic failures that cause our problems.. He later appeared in a variety of films ranging from dramas and romantic comedies to thriller and action films, such as Clean and Sober (1988), Pacific Heights (1990), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), The Other Guys (2010), RoboCop (2014), Need for Speed (2015), Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), Dumbo (2019), Worth (2020), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). His breakout role was as fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski in the 1982 comedy film Night Shift. And who is that person? Im a [expletive] hitter. Then you go, I can hit that. So you just hang in there. WebMichael Keaton - Biography. The show ran for six seasons, with the Shephard role continuing throughout. Even this interview: Im not unnecessarily flattering you, but when I get talking about things I forget how much I like things like this conversation. But with buzzy new shows like, D.L. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu calls my agent, and he goes, I want to talk to him about this movie. Because I like sports so much I use probably too many sports metaphors, but you gotta get tough and be competitive and not want to lie down. My kid and I are tight. Rosario Dawson plays a D.E.A. Keaton had a relationship with actress Courteney Cox from 199095. Do people think that theres anything to be outraged about? Or you can watch Succession.. So anyway, that was traumatic. Mr Keatons nephew was extremely loyal and a really good friend. Yes. [45] He played Captain Gene Mauch in the comedy The Other Guys. Seriously? he asked. 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. Do some other things. I think her thinking was, Lets go hipper, lets go young, because Im Cher and Im going to do my rock tunes. Maybe I did. Im blessed to do something that might improve someones life.. Oh, Ill tell ya! I'll wait." The Bob Dylan book? Yeah. [5] He was raised between McKees Rocks,[6] Coraopolis and Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. Then, that wasnt it. Theyre still eating, all you hear is silverware and people mumbling things like, Hey, I didnt order Thousand Island. Youre up there and they go: Who is this kid? Much of the money raised, through events like an annual Kick it for Mike cornhole competition and t-shirt sales, is donated to increase addiction awareness (and, of course, support sports and kids, two of Michaels greatest loves.). But could you stop?. 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). 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. We grew up in kind of a relatively affluent suburb, and parents didnt talk to each other, his sister tells The Independent. [5][9] Keaton was raised in a Catholic family. 158174; Alison McMahan (2005). I have a Batman question: When I rewatched Batman and Batman Returns it seemed to me as if there was a progression from one film to the next in how you played Bruce Wayne. The crazy thats a lot of times in there and the self-involvement and, at the time, the friggin cocaine, which was everywhere. I think he had a scholarship to Cornell and . Thats the goal of the foundation set up in his nephews memory, too, the late sports fans sister tells The Independent. [73], Keaton supported Barack Obama in 2008,[74] Hillary Clinton for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,[75] and Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Only take pills that were prescribed by your doctor and came from a licensed pharmacy. You said you sounded inauthentic to yourself. Whats really interesting about you saying that is, man, do I miss it sounds egotistical being funny. Better roles will come around. I dont even know if thats a good book, but I remember when I read it, I was going, Wow, Dylans really deep. 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. What Dopesick offers is the scope of the devastationboth from the perspective of the people who were took Oxycontin and the people who were trying to stop Purdue Pharma from selling it. Did that change your perspective about what your career had been up to then? So the answer to that question is, I dont have any idea. Youre the boss. 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. ), Strong decided early to make the U.S. attorneys investigation the narrative spine of the series, he said. The fishing story? [58][59] In June 2020, Keaton entered talks to reprise his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne in the DC Extended Universe's upcoming superhero film, The Flash, which is scheduled to be released on June 23, 2023, after last playing the role in 1992. pp. We didnt do this to ourselves, said Hampton, who was injured while hiking in 2003 and prescribed opioids. The pills dosage size keeps doubling; the excuses for how to mitigate so-called breakthrough pain keep coming; and at one point, faced with rising cases of drug abuse, Purdue brings in an expert who describes the phenomenon as pseudo-addiction.. On July 28, 2016, Keaton was honored with the 2,585th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to film. Then you start to literally get tired of hearing your own voice, and also metaphorically get tired. [37] He was initially set to reprise the role again for a third Batman film, even going as far as to show up for costume fitting. While making the docuseries, which premieres Wednesday, the filmmakers say they uncovered Murdaugh-related corruption stretching to the state and the federal level., Kerry Washington Goes for LaughsAnd TruthIn Hulu Comedy. Based on the book by Beth Macy, the new Hulu series roams the hills of Appalachia and the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma to tell a story of greed and suffering. But because the drug was so addictiveand ruthlessly marketed by PurduePurdue Pharma made billions off of it. Its almost hard to watch the devastatingly accurate depiction of the opioid epidemic and its insidious invasion of America at the hands of scheming pharmaceutical executives on the Hulu drama Dopesick. Some of them die. Dopesick is going to make you angry. They have a son, Sean, born in 1983. My attitude was make em throw you your pitch. It was equally hard to watch its star, Michael Keaton, previously break down while accepting a Screen Actors Guild award, dedicating the trophy to his sister, Pam, and her son, Michael Douglas Scichilone who died in 2016 in Pennsylvania, a victim of the same epidemic chronicled in Mr Keatons show. Srpskohrvatski / , 19891999: Breakthrough as a dramatic lead. 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. And then if you can live in that without sounding like Im saying something that makes me want to go outside and vomit you kind of raise your consciousness. The conversation between you two is just joke after joke after joke, and the one time where you came on walking on your hands? You go: Uh-uh. He became addicted, abused OxyContin and eventually heroin, then lost his job and home before getting sober in 2015. This was about folks in boardrooms bringing death and destruction to our communities, he added. Its not just that the pill as prescribed is dangerously addictive; the show depicts Purdue Pharma offering lucrative jobs to regulators and attorneys who might have otherwise raised a red flag. My Life: Directed by Bruce Joel Rubin. Mr. Michael Keaton has been a star for long enough to have gone through multiple and distinctly different cycles of fame and artistic expression. Frankly the reason a reason that a person can be more effective as an actor boy I hate acting talk. [60] In August 2020, it was reported that Keaton would be reprising his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman,[61][62] though Keaton disputed these claims on October 21 and again on March 22, 2021, stating that it was not confirmed. She also brought numerous sources into the writers room, including former Purdue employees and a doctor who discussed the pressure he felt from sales reps and his own addiction to the drug. Mom (1983), Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice (1988), the DC Comics superhero Batman / Bruce Wayne in Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992) and the upcoming film The Flash (2023), and the Marvel I just cant allow it to happen. environmentally conscientious construction company. Heres the deal: Everything comes down to the question of what do you want? Multiple "Batman" projects that were going to star Michael Keaton have been reportedly scrapped by DC. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. To be totally honest, its not like everybody was knocking on my door. That sounds so cavalier: I was bored. But I probably did get a little bored with myself. Its probably annoying to some people. 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.. On May 6, 2022, it was reported that Keaton is set to star in and direct the noir thriller, Knox Goes Away.[70]. He then decided that intercutting between Purdues internal machinations and the people suffering in Finch Creek would offer a true understanding of what happened.. By the way, the architecture thing was totally stupid in retrospect. 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. By the way, Im not convinced baseball players of all the athletes are the brightest of the bunch. Yeah, and this was in old Vegas. Hell take it well, hes a good guy. Shortly after her passing, Michael Keaton admitted that two of his siblings, who also lost ex-spouses, told him that dealing with McWilliams death would be harder than he thought. His feelings were odd, the actor explained, but not necessarily in a bad way, mainly because they had remained friends. My career; career-wise. It sounds pretentious just hearing myself say it now. [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. Early footage from The Flash teases Michael Keaton's inactivity as Batman, and a theory suggests Bruce Wayne faked his death after Batman Returns. (A spokeswoman for the now-dissolved Purdue Pharma, Michele Sharp, declined to comment for this article; Paul Holmes and Davidson Goldin, spokesmen for the two branches of the Sackler family with a history of ownership in Purdue Pharma, also declined to comment. Strong and Keaton were both stunned to learn how the drug changes a persons brain chemistry, even when taken as prescribed. Not our country, the entire world, economically, racially, socially, financially, theres massive inequity in the world. 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. I miss that stuff with Letterman and those guys. I know you like to talk in sports metaphors so [Laughs.] So I say, OK, lets do it. Then everybody was saying, Oh, my God, the worlds going to end. I thought, Really? We seriously do not have time for that. Poulters character, a salesman named Billy, is assigned to Keatons character to make sure the family doctor keeps prescribing the drug. [36] Keaton later reprised the role for the sequel Batman Returns (1992), which was another critically acclaimed success. OK. 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. Buy naloxone. Dopesick, an eight-episode limited series based on the book by journalist Beth Macy, turns this story into a personal one centered on West Virginia doctor Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton), a fixture of his community who starts prescribing Oxycontin after a Purdue Pharma rep assures him its a nonaddictive treatment for the pain his patients are experiencing. OxyContins introduction is now viewed as the start of the opioid epidemic, which has killed more than 500,000 people nationwide and addicted millions more. There were moments where we were reading the script, and you would say, Jeez, this is Michaels story. But thats not the job at hand. Keaton was pigeonholed as a comic lead during this time with films like Johnny Dangerously, Gung Ho, The Squeeze, and The Dream Team, though Keaton tried to transition to dramatic leads as early as 1984, playing a hockey player in Touch and Go, which was shelved until 1986. 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. He has zigzagged through the years from the gleeful anarchic charge of his comedic work in his early hit films like Night Shift (1982) and Mr. "Hit Men." Your attitude, how you look at things and what you can create is more in your power than a lot of people think. [22] He also performed stand-up comedy during his early years to supplement his income. [2] He is also a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University. Like Im involved with this environmentally conscientious construction company. 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 Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. [44] He announced in June 2010 his interest in returning for a Beetlejuice sequel. Michael Stuhlbarg, center, as Richard Sackler. Fox and Tracy Pollan met on a show called Family Ties. Thats a really good question. 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. 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. He always kind of treated them like they were small adults.. Im actually enjoying this. Like what? Youll come up with another answer. Ive passed up so much work over the years because I was curious about other things. Chronicle Books. Meanwhile, the Sacklers, protected for now by the bankruptcy settlement, remain one of the richest families in America. [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. Probably you were already angry about the Oxycontin grift, wherein the company Purdue Pharmarun by the extremely wealthy Sackler familypeddled the opioid as a nonaddictive painkiller when it was, in fact, highly addictive. It's only fitting that Michael J. A lot of care went into picking the right actress to play Alex P. Keaton's With Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah. Certain things started coming around for me because I said, Im not lying down. I dont know. 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