Originally appeared on E! Online
Just don’t say his name three times.
Michael Keaton is ready to return to his roots, more specifically, his birth name. The “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” star shared that after five decades in show business playing several iconic characters like Batman and Beetlejuice, he wants to use his original moniker—Michael Douglas—again.
Due to the Screen Actor’s Guild’s rules that no two members can have the same name, Keaton was forced to come up with a solution due to both “Wall Street” actor Michael Douglas and talk show host Mike Douglas.
“I was looking through—I can’t remember if it was a phone book,” the 72-year-old recalled to People in an interview published Sept. 4. “I must’ve gone, ‘I don’t know, let me think of something here.’ And I went, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.’”
Moving forward, Keaton plans to be credited professionally as Michael Keaton Douglas, a combination of his stage name and his real name.
The Oscar-nominated actor said he …