I was with my friend Skip Herman, who I fish with. How fortunate am I that good can come from something that I do just because I wanted to become an actor?, Theres massive inequity in the world. Frankly the reason a reason that a person can be more effective as an actor boy I hate acting talk. Please. In an excellent, charismatic turn, Rosario Dawson plays Bridget Meyer, a DEA investigator who finds the tentacles of Purdue Pharmas influence everywhere she turns. Michael Keaton stars in Dopesick as a doctor who watches as the OxyContin he was manipulated into prescribing ravages his small Appalachian town. [72] An avid fisherman, he is often seen on the saltwater fishing series Buccaneers & Bones on Outdoor Channel, along with Tom Brokaw, Zach Gilford, Thomas McGuane and Yvon Chouinard, among others. [65][66], He was set to reprise the character in Batgirl starring Leslie Grace, set for a release on HBO Max,[67] taking some inspiration from the acclaimed DC Animated Universe animated series, Batman Beyond, with Keaton playing the elder Bruce Wayne as the title character's mentor and remote coordinator in the Batcave. It was like, Whoa, wait a minute, this is big. Yeah, and this was in old Vegas. Dopesick is going to make you angry. With fentanyl, there is only a short window of time to intervene and save a persons life during an overdose. He then decided that intercutting between Purdues internal machinations and the people suffering in Finch Creek would offer a true understanding of what happened.. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? As the opioid epidemic ravaged Pennsylvania, however, Michael Scichilone would soon fall victim to it. He has zigzagged And when the drug is too hard to come by, heroin becomes an easy substitute. You go, "Okay. Night Shift led to Keaton becoming a leading man in the 1983 comedy hit Mr. Not only do the roles get a little different, but your interpretation of them might be more interesting too.. [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. I get embarrassed using the word career. Once you start talking like that you have a self-consciousness about it, and it takes away from: Whats the thing you really are supposed to do? He had previously received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance in Live from Baghdad (2002) and five Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, which ultimately yielded four wins for his performances in Birdman, Spotlight, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Dopesick. The DC Extended Universe has You said you sounded inauthentic to yourself. Theres a passage in the piece you wrote for that book about fishing, Astream: If youre doing it right, the longer you live, the more you become just who you really are. Are you becoming closer to who you really are? After going to Costa Rica to find vampire bats while in pursuit of a cure for his For Macy, that meant emphasizing the effectiveness of medication-assisted treatment, in which addicts use a less dangerous opioid like methadone or Suboxone to regain their lives. 1 reason Im doing this is for Michael and you and for everyone out there, because its important. Then what happens is once you get going youre locked in. pp. The truth becomes clear as Finnix watches one patient after another including an injured young coal miner played by Kaitlyn Dever becomes addicted. WebMichael Keaton - Biography. He played the title character in Tim Burton's horror-comedy Beetlejuice, earning Keaton widespread acclaim and boosting him to Hollywood's A list. He made his 15 million dollar fortune with Toy Story 3, Stick to licensed pharmacies. Honest to God. Ive always thought, without sounding self-serving here, that its important to be able to say, If it all falls apart tomorrow, at least I did something that maybe meant something to someone. Dopesick is personal. Fentanyl is a potent and fast-acting drug, two qualities that also make it highly addictive. [21]) Keaton also worked as an actor in Pittsburgh theatre; he played the role of Rick in the Pittsburgh premiere of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones with the Pittsburgh Poor Players. [56] He also briefly reprised his role as Vulture in the SSU film Morbius,[57] which released on April 1, 2022. Im so lost, Dave. 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. I do realize what you noticed because I remember being on a movie with someone Im not going to say who, theyre friends of mine now and I found out years later they assumed I was on something, and they got worried. Like what? I do. So I say, OK, lets do it. Then everybody was saying, Oh, my God, the worlds going to end. I thought, Really? [36] Keaton later reprised the role for the sequel Batman Returns (1992), which was another critically acclaimed success. I was always afraid that the fun would go away. Thats good. Guys who just said: [Expletive] you. He also wrote an ESPN blog on the Pirates during the final months of their 2013 season. [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. A morose Peter Saarsgard plays the similarly frustrated U.S. attorney Rick Mountcastle, whose efforts to build a case are hindered by how carefully the pharmaceutical company has covered its tracks. Those usually kill. I could never describe it. By the way, Im not convinced baseball players of all the athletes are the brightest of the bunch. Initial footage from The Flash trailer hints that Michael Keaton's early '90s Batman faked his death, according to a popular theory. Thats the goal of the foundation set up in his nephews memory, too, the late sports fans sister tells The Independent. Earlier in his speech, which began comically but quickly turned serious, Mr Keaton said he felt honoured to have a profession capable of sparking thought, conversation and actual change. I hope the show opens hearts and minds about who the real criminals are.. We do not have time. Keaton, a longtime Pittsburgh resident and fan of its sports teams, negotiated a break in his Batman movie contract in case the Pittsburgh Pirates made the playoffs that year, although they ultimately did not. So youd stop, step back and reassess. While he continued to receive good notices from the critics (particularly for Jackie Brown), he was not able to re-approach the box-office success of Batman until the release of Disney/Pixar's Cars (2006), in which he voiced Chick Hicks, a green race car with a mustache, who frequently loses his patience with losing to his longtime rival, Strip Weathers, a.k.a. And who is that person? Jaime Ray Newman plays his sister Kathe, who is seemingly more compassionate, but no less committed to profit. Mr. You become consumed by the addiction, Keaton said in a recent phone interview. 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 Finnix is persuaded by aggressive Purdue salespeople that OxyContin is a miracle drug a powerful, long-acting painkiller that they insist is addictive in less than 1 percent of people who take it as prescribed. Early footage from The Flash teases Michael Keaton's inactivity as Batman, and a theory suggests Bruce Wayne faked his death after Batman Returns. No, no. (His character, like several others, is an amalgam of several real-life people.) He always kind of treated them like they were small adults.. Maybe its that nothing was coming around that made me interested. On New Year's Day of 2004, he hosted the PBS TV special Mr. Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor. I totally know what youre saying. 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? Yes. Keaton had a relationship with actress Courteney Cox from 199095. I was just commenting on the vibe. [29] When Touch and Go was finally released in 1986 the studio was still unsure of how to market the film, making the poster, trailer and TV spots similar to Mr. He had a cameo in the Tenacious D short film Time Fixers, an iTunes exclusive. Her mother, Pamela Douglas is his sister; Mr Keatons original last name was Douglas, too, but there was already a very well-known Michael Douglas in the actors guild. Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. Keaton described his nephew as a loyal and great friend who was a huge sports fan and had a great sense of humor. You got a good fishing story? "Burton's Batman: Myth, Marketing, and Merchandising." 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. Name: Michael Keaton Birth Year: 1951 Birth date: September 5, 1951 Birth State: Pennsylvania Birth City: Coraopolis Birth Country: United States Gender: Male Other characters include Purdue Pharma sales reps Will Poulter and Phillipa Soo, miner Betsys parents Mare Winningham and Ray McKinnon, and the Sacklers themselves. So anyway, that was traumatic. Buy naloxone. Or you can watch Succession.. Im going to keep sidetracking now thats your influence, by the way. The CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, known for its ticking stopwatch, devoted a good portion of its program Sunday night to discovering what makes Michael Keaton tick. When The New York Times reported that DC Films' plans to have Michael Keaton reprise his role as Batman in "The Flash," some fans took it as Keaton would be A few years ago in an interview you said that there was a point in your career, I guess it was in the mid-2000s before you sort of disappeared for a while, where you got tired of your own voice. Aaron Sorkin on Scott Rudin: He Got What He Deserves The Controversy Behind the Scenes of Dallas Buyers Club Steven Van Zandt Talks Making, and Ending, The Sopranos Love Is a Crime: The Rise and Fall of Walter Wangers Cleopatra Matt Drudges Impeachment Debut and Strange Origin Story Squid Game: The Perfect Show for Our Current Dystopia An Oral History of Zoolander Which James Bond Star Is the Ultimate 007? From the Archive: The Epic Folly and Scandalous Romance of Cleopatra Sign up for the HWD Daily newsletter for must-read industry and awards coverageplus a special weekly edition of Awards Insider., 2023 Cond Nast. [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. Oh, sorry. [Laughs.] [Laughs.] She was playing the part, though. The best way to prevent fentanyl use is to. Why is he bothering us? I remember starting with some kind of architecture-related joke. Im looking forward to a time when my work becomes other work, frankly. For Mister Rogers he played one of the "Flying Zookeeni Brothers"[18] and served as a full-time production assistant. Fox and Tracy Pollan met on a show called Family Ties. He has also provided voices for characters in animated films such as the English dubbing of Porco Rosso (1992), Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015). Im a news junkie. Simon & Schuster. My kid and I are tight. Whats the job at hand? 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. Ryan Hampton, a former campaign staffer for Bill Clinton and the author of the new book Unsettled, about the opioid crisis, agreed; he said the series could help Americans see that the drug abusers were not the problem. 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.. Maybe Ill tell ya another time. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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 Strong and Macy made certain that Dopesick looked beyond the behavior of Purdue Pharma to a federal government that often turned a blind eye or worse to potential dangers while letting the campaign finance dollars roll in. With that in mind, Strong said he made recovery and healing a major plotline in the last few episodes, in hopes of destigmatizing treatment for opioid use disorder. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. I dont think print serves that question, to be really honest with you. That takes up a fair amount of my time. We can laugh at the people who obsess but its none of my business what people think. The 9-minute film was released to coincide with Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Then you start to literally get tired of hearing your own voice, and also metaphorically get tired. [2] He is also a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University. [27], His next big break was working alongside Jim Belushi in the short-lived comedy series Working Stiffs, which showcased his comedic talent and led to a co-starring role in the comedy Night Shift directed by Ron Howard. Alternative Title: Michael John Douglas. Michael Keaton, in full Michael John Douglas, (born September 5, 1951, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American actor who began his career in mostly comedic roles but later found success in dramas. Im developing this thing with Jay Roach and Owen Burke and Adam McKay. Its not even funny. 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. It also meant being sure to include certain details to help clarify the record, like Richard Sacklers well-documented directive in a 2001 email to hammer on abusers and portray them as culprits. It takes really great people down.. Its crazy. The Bob Dylan book? When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue. [39], In the early 2000s, Keaton appeared in several films with mixed success, including Live From Baghdad (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe award[40]), First Daughter (playing the President of the United States), White Noise and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Im too antsy to sit around anyway. Once this pill enters peoples lives, it doesnt quitand neither does the sales team. Prescription drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealersmarketed as OxyContin, Vicodin and Xanax are often laced with fentanyl. I kind of obsess over that, which is not good, and I do my little things under the radar with guys like Jim Messina. Certain things started coming around for me because I said, Im not lying down. I dont know. You have that tone: I know you like to talk in sport metaphors. Tuck tuck fold. [Laughs.] Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. OK, so to get back on track: You had a period where you would do performances and they wouldnt ring true? First of all 100 percent true absolutely no cocaine was involved. The 34-year-old was lost to fentanyl and heroin, Mr Keaton said in a previous interview. The show ran for six seasons, with the Shephard role continuing throughout. Foul off a few. Then youll have to keep asking yourself, Yeah, but what is that? Multiplicity is one of my favorites, too, and thats different. This was his breakout role as the fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski and earned Keaton some critical acclaim.[28]. Michael Keaton has been a star for long enough to have gone through multiple and distinctly different cycles of fame and artistic expression. All rights reserved. [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. 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. [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. [63][64] However, on April 19, 2021, Keaton's talent agency, ICM Partners, officially confirmed his involvement with the film when production had officially begun. 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. 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. If you think someone is overdosing, call 911 right away. You dont mean Huey Lewis? I dont know how you are about this, but I never got the whole fascination with the superhero thing. In 2014 he played the OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars in the RoboCop remake as a more active antagonist, taking RoboCop's wife and child hostage, forcing Joel Kinnaman's character to struggle to overcome the 4th directive. My mom thought she was alone in struggling with that stuff. [5][9] Keaton was raised in a Catholic family. From the late 90s through the 00s, Oxycontin addiction ravaged entire communities, turning them into the epicenter of an opioid crisis that is still raging today. Addiction comes in all shapes and sizes. But even talking to you now, I feel myself getting revved up. Youll come up with another answer. Whats your function in life? Do the thing. Mom, which resulted in the film not finding its target audience. Its doable. According to the A&E Biography episode on Keaton, after he had refused the first time (after meetings with Schumacher), Warner Bros. offered him $15million, but Keaton steadfastly refused and was replaced by Val Kilmer in Batman Forever (1995). 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. Im blessed-slash-cursed with a bit of a chip on my shoulder. 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. I thought, Hey, man, embrace it. As a society, it appears we have learned nothing from that experience, he said about the story of Purdue and OxyContin. Ive passed up so much work over the years because I was curious about other things. When I say I chased this fish down: in and out of a drift boat five or six times. Im just trying to get a handle. Keaton said he may not experience the worst impacts of climate change, but he cannot say the same for his son and grandchildren - one reason hes eager to act. 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[49], In 2017, Keaton played the supervillain The Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming; while making this film, Keaton was unable to reprise his role as Chick Hicks for Disney/Pixar's Cars 3 and was replaced by Bob Peterson. [71], In the 1980s, Keaton bought a ranch near Big Timber, Montana, where he spends much of his time. He was just very knowledgeable with all those things. She sees me and says: Hes funny. Drug overdose deaths, largely caused by the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, reached record highs in the United States in 2021. It was my sisters son. 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. She continues: He was a really, really great uncle. Keaton with Andie MacDowell in Multiplicity (1996). In Dopesick, when you talk about addiction, the way to heal the problem is to accept that you have a problem, he said. Dopesick would be better if the story did not jump around so much in time; the timeline-shifting is an increasingly popular prestige television crutch that replaces more thorough storytelling. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to, Fox Searchlight Pictures, via Everett Collection. I was doing some things, I was picking up a little bit of work. Better roles will come around. 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. They have a son, Sean, born in 1983. Then I started to get a feel for Vegas and Im going, Oh, boy. [26] Keaton's film debut came in a small non-speaking role in the Joan Rivers film Rabbit Test. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale; Les Daniels (2000). His breakout role was as fast-talking schemer Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski in the 1982 comedy film Night Shift. I dont know. We didnt do this to ourselves, said Hampton, who was injured while hiking in 2003 and prescribed opioids. [1] In 2016, he was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France. 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. [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. 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. 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. I think he had a scholarship to Cornell and . Tickets for the 8 p.m. awards ceremony, which will feature a video compilation of his work and a conversation with Keaton, followed by a gala in the museum, are limited. [23], Keaton left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts. As the opioid epidemic ravaged Pennsylvania, however, Michael Scichilone would soon fall victim to it. The energy level is just its very cocaine. Youre the boss. 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Thats a whole other conversation. [69] He will also reprise the character in the 2023 scheduled Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, in a deleted scene. Dopesick follows Finnix and his patient Betsy (Kaitlyn Dever) over the course of several years, as Oxycontin rips their lives to shreds. Macy said she had persuaded Strong to hire the Kentucky novelist Robert Gipe (Trampoline) to ensure that the series depicted small-town Appalachia without stereotypes. Did that change your perspective about what your career had been up to then? 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. Let me hear myself say it. But I used those scenes as a conduit to get facts out.. The fishing story? Hes such a familiar, even nostalgic, figure at this point that its easy to take his uniqueness for granted. Teenagers are snorting it for funand then overdosing. Strong and Keaton were both stunned to learn how the drug changes a persons brain chemistry, even when taken as prescribed. You know, the imagery does seem weird. Cocreators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, plus star Dominique Fishback, get candid about the wild new series that is a sister to, increasingly popular prestige television crutch, a year after he oversaw the approval of OxyContin. Thats a really good question. I love nature and being outside. Whats really interesting about you saying that is, man, do I miss it sounds egotistical being funny. But everyone says about how stigmatised it really is, and it still is but I think thats changing.. Im not sure I totally follow but Can I add this? 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. 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