Michael Keaton Talks Fanboy Outrage
You think fanboy outrage is a thing of the internet age? Michael Keaton knows different. Even the pretty much everybody loves him now for his role in Tim Burton’s Batman, when Michael Keaton was cast for the part, there was huge outrage, because Michael Keaton was a “comedic actor”. Keaton talked about how the uproar made him feel during a recent Q&A.
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"It baffled me that anyone was thinking about that. I heard about the outrage, and I couldn’t get it. I didn’t understand why it was such a big deal. It made me feel bad that it was even in question. I thought it was half-funny, but it was in the middle of shooting, so the pressure was on. The pressure was on all of us, anyway, to see if we could pull it off. We didn’t even know if the suit was going to work. It kinda didn’t, for the first couple of days. It was pretty ridiculously funny, actually. I have claustrophobia, and being in it and not being able to get out of it, all day long, was a huge deal. I thought, “You better figure out a way to make this thing work,” and I did. I just went a little deeper inside of the guy. He’s a very alienated dude, inside of himself. I just went to that place. And then, I got used to it and worked it. It was so strong and powerful that there wasn’t much I had to do except work that suit."
Of course now many would argue that Michael Keaton has been the best Batman and at worst second to Christian Bale as far as movie Batmen go. Will all the fanboy rage over Ben Affleck’s initial casting also be unfounded? He is a great actor, so I feel that if the movie is disappointing it won’t be his fault. We’ll just have to see next year when Batman v. Superman opens in theatres…
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