has made quite a name for himself in the entertainment industry. He gained early recognition as a comedy actor in films like. While the world knows Keaton as one name for almost five decades in show business, he said going forward he would like to go by his real name.
The veteran actor’s birth name is Michael John Douglas. But as you may already know, we already have Basic Instinct’s“I was looking through — I can’t remember if it was a phone book,” said Keaton. “I must’ve gone, ‘I don’t know, let me think of something here.’ And I went, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.’”
After almost five decades of entertaining us in film and television roles, Michael Keaton has decided that he wants to be credited by his birth name instead. The Dopesick actor was going to credit himself as Michael Keaton Douglas for his recent director’s project“I said, ‘Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it totally got away from me. And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that. But that will happen.”.