Michael Keaton admits it was a “brave move” by Tim Burton cast him as Batman.
The 72-year-old actor first played Batman in Burton's 1989 superhero film “Batman” and acknowledged that the filmmaker took a risk in casting him in the role after receiving backlash. negative from fans.
“When they said, 'We're thinking about making Batman,' I said, 'Wait, are you thinking about making a Batman movie?' The fact that Tim said, 'That guy, I want that guy'… The fact that people care so much one way or another is still baffling. But that was a brave move on his part,” Keaton recalled in a career retrospective interview with the magazine GQ.
“We also had a good working relationship with 'Beetlejuice,' so he felt like he and I could get along and would work well together.”
Keaton reprized his role as the superhero in the 1992 sequel “Batman Returns” and in the DC film “The Flash” in 2023. However, the actor admitted to regretting the intense fitness regime for work, as it made him uncomfortable wearing the character's costume.
“I was training to be in good shape. One day Jack Nicholson walked past me and said, 'What are you doing?'. I said, 'I'm working out.' And he asked: 'Why are you doing this?'', the star recalled.
“I didn’t have an answer and he just left. I approached the preparation completely wrong. It's better to be small and skinny inside the thing [roupa]. You can move, you can breathe inside. I don't know what I was thinking, I just thought: 'I'm an actor, I'm going to do all this!'”, joked Michael.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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