We didnt do this to ourselves, said Hampton, who was injured while hiking in 2003 and prescribed opioids. Better roles will come around. As a society, it appears we have learned nothing from that experience, he said about the story of Purdue and OxyContin. Im going to keep sidetracking now thats your influence, by the way. He has zigzagged Im really not bragging: What little act I had, I knew that some parts of it worked. Fentanyl, really. Good fortune. Even this interview: Im not unnecessarily flattering you, but when I get talking about things I forget how much I like things like this conversation. I wanted to live life. 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. I think you become a better actor if you have a world awareness and if you have experiences and you hear the way people speak. [19] (In 2003, after Fred Rogers' death, Keaton hosted a PBS memorial tribute, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor;[20] in 2018, he hosted a 50th anniversary special of the series for PBS, Mister Rogers: It's You I Like. Their interests are their interests. Most notable is a former FDA director,Curtis Wright,who reportedly took a $400,000 employment deal at Purduea year after he oversaw the approval of OxyContin. That mind-set wont help us make changes to prevent reoccurrences, he continued. Some of the most painful moments of the series come when people who know better are swept up by the pills incredibly addictive qualities anyway. 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. "Hit Men." I mean, Thomas McGuane, hes an old friend. What Dopesick offers is the scope of the devastationboth from the perspective of the people who were took Oxycontin and the people who were trying to stop Purdue Pharma from selling it. [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. Im probably overanalyzing it. But Keaton didnt pass on the opportunity to play Samuel Finnix, a fictional doctor in a Virginia mining town plagued by the onset of the opioid epidemic and one Or you can watch Succession.. Hughley Was Almost a Little Too Cool for, A recap of season 1, episode 5, Endure and Survive.. To be totally honest, its not like everybody was knocking on my door. The kind of athletes Ive always liked are the grinders. He also wrote an ESPN blog on the Pirates during the final months of their 2013 season. ), Strong decided early to make the U.S. attorneys investigation the narrative spine of the series, he said. WebOn 5-9-1951 Michael Keaton (nickname: Michael Keaton) was born in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania, United States. I think that its important that people are open and honest and talk to each other and learn from each other. But I thought: Ill be all right. OK. The Bob Dylan book? Hed hate it, she says. Morbius sees the titular doctor, Michael Morbius, suffering from a rare blood disease. Then she started telling me how much time she wanted me to do, and I went, [expletive], I dont have this. I thought I would write early on, and I quit because Im lazy. Picking that character up again 30-ish years later in The Flash, are you playing him as a continuation of that same guy or are you starting from scratch? [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. 1988 was the seminal year in Keaton's career where he landed two major unconventional roles, forever changing his image to audiences. And then if you can live in that without sounding like Im saying something that makes me want to go outside and vomit you kind of raise your consciousness. 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. 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. 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. Im not saying good or bad; a totally different thing. Multiplicity is one of my favorites, too, and thats different. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu calls my agent, and he goes, I want to talk to him about this movie. Because I like sports so much I use probably too many sports metaphors, but you gotta get tough and be competitive and not want to lie down. (A spokeswoman for the now-dissolved Purdue Pharma, Michele Sharp, declined to comment for this article; Paul Holmes and Davidson Goldin, spokesmen for the two branches of the Sackler family with a history of ownership in Purdue Pharma, also declined to comment. But I thought, Well, theyre going to see Cher so I dont have to do a lot of time. 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I dont think I believe that I have a responsibility exactly, but you wouldnt want to leave the world going: I could have been a mensch. "Burton's Batman: Myth, Marketing, and Merchandising." 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. It was death, and I had never experienced death. [55] Keaton cites his performance in 1988's Clean and Sober as an early preparation for Dopesick. Meanwhile, in the Appalachian community where Finnix and Betsy live, Oxy has taken over. With Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah. In an excellent, charismatic turn, Rosario Dawson plays Bridget Meyer, a DEA investigator who finds the tentacles of Purdue Pharmas influence everywhere she turns. When I say I chased this fish down: in and out of a drift boat five or six times. I dont get to talk about this very often with people. We can laugh at the people who obsess but its none of my business what people think. Im blessed-slash-cursed with a bit of a chip on my shoulder. So anyway, that was traumatic. Im not trying to save any kind of reputation. The 9-minute film was released to coincide with Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Is that indicative of any increased desire to address politics more in your work? say they bear no responsibility for the crisis, sweeping protections built into a bankruptcy settlement, a 120-page Justice Department report from 2006, reached record highs in the United States in 2021, drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealers, a uniquely misleading F.D.A.-approved label, safe to sell over the counter without a prescription, By far the largest factor is drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl, expand the use of medication to treat substance use disorders in pregnant women. I think her thinking was, Lets go hipper, lets go young, because Im Cher and Im going to do my rock tunes. I do. 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). You know, probably. No. 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. You go, "Okay. My kid and I are tight. Oh, Ill tell ya! agent who in the 1990s begins to notice a troubling pattern of addiction to prescription opioids in rural areas.. Who gets to have that job? So you hear yourself speaking, youre in a scene, and it doesnt necessarily not ring true, its just kind of a sound youre doing thats too familiar. Addiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Youre the boss. Teenagers are snorting it for funand then overdosing. If youre concerned that a loved one could be exposed to fentanyl, you may want to buy naloxone. Drug overdose deaths, largely caused by the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, reached record highs in the United States in 2021. Then I started to get a feel for Vegas and Im going, Oh, boy. And what made you not tired of your voice anymore? [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. 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. [10] His mother was of Irish descent,[10][11][12] while his father was of Scottish, Scotch-Irish, German and English ancestry, and was originally from a Protestant family. Theres fair and theres unfair. 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. The shutting up, not so much. In 2021, he starred in the Hulu limited series Dopesick for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Its probably annoying to some people. 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. I take pride in holding those people accountable for the victims of this opioid crisis, he added. He popped up in various popular TV shows including Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. The idea that your frontal lobe is altered and can take two years to get back from that shocked me, Strong said. As the opioid epidemic ravaged Pennsylvania, however, Michael Scichilone would soon fall victim to it. The medicine can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose and is often available at local pharmacies without a prescription. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. You dont mean Huey Lewis? Mom, which resulted in the film not finding its target audience. A lot of care went into picking the right actress to play Alex P. Keaton's Man, I miss that stuff so much. Only take pills that were prescribed by your doctor and came from a licensed pharmacy. Having recognizable faces in those roles can be transformative in shaping more positive attitudes.. Protesters in 2019 outside a courthouse in Boston, Mass., where a judge heard arguments in a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. 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. 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 But everyone says about how stigmatised it really is, and it still is but I think thats changing.. After going to Costa Rica to find vampire bats while in pursuit of a cure for his 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.. But the bigger distinction is that Dopesick, while a scripted drama, is about a real-life familys alleged role in creating one of the biggest public health catastrophes in American history: the opioid crisis. WebKeaton revealed that Michael battled an addiction to fentanyl and heroin, which resulted in his death in Pennsylvania in 2016. The new series, which counts Barry Levinson (Diner, Rain Man) among its directors, picks up, in a sense, where that documentary leaves off; using the freedom of scripted television, it ventures inside the four-year investigation behind that report as led by a group of federal prosecutors (played by John Hoogenakker, Jake McDorman and Peter Sarsgaard) and a frustrated Drug Enforcement Administration agent (Rosario Dawson). [52] In 2020, Keaton played U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark in The Trial of the Chicago 7, a legal drama directed by Aaron Sorkin about seven anti-Vietnam protesters charged with inciting riots in 1968. Maybe I am. The part was then given to actor Matthew Fox. Thats good. WebKeaton revealed that Michael battled an addiction to fentanyl and heroin, which resulted in his death in Pennsylvania in 2016. After a while you kind of go: I got some ammunition left. The thought can sometimes lighten the reality, she says. [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. Ive been like that since I was a little kid. I said, Look, if this wasnt well written or if they were saying youve got to kind of work for free, Im not going to lie to you and say I would have done it, but, that said, the No. I dont know. When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue. On July 28, 2016, Keaton was honored with the 2,585th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to film. I thought, Hey, man, embrace it. One unique advantage of doing a scripted series, said the shows creator, Danny Strong, was being able to go inside the room with Purdue executives. He made the family holiday movie Jack Frost and the thriller Desperate Measures. I dont know how you are about this, but I never got the whole fascination with the superhero thing. Unlike that HBO show, Hulus new eight-part series Dopesick doesnt offer laughs at the outlandish behavior of its titans of industry. Im here. A major beneficiary is the Matilda H. Theiss center, where they really focus on children and mental health. Not only do the roles get a little different, but your interpretation of them might be more interesting too.. [76] Despite his political outspokenness during the 2020 election, Keaton later stated that it's better for celebrities not to speak about politics. Im just saying. Addicts have quickly figured out how to dupe doctors into writing them prescriptions. Do some other things. 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. Then I went, But what is he talking about? Did you ever read Tarantula? Thats a whole other conversation. The best way to prevent fentanyl use is to educate your loved ones, including teens, about it. There are things I did because I thought they had to be out there. Heres what you should know to keep your loved ones safe: Understand fentanyls effects. On New Year's Day of 2004, he hosted the PBS TV special Mr. Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor. For Mister Rogers he played one of the "Flying Zookeeni Brothers"[18] and served as a full-time production assistant. Its not like a weird Hollywood family or anything., She adds: Whatever my uncle does to bring awareness to the epidemic and the issue, thats a positive.. Keaton had a relationship with actress Courteney Cox from 199095. Its all pulpy and everything, but Bruce Waynes an interesting character. [1] In 2016, he was named Officer of Order of Arts and Letters in France. (Macy and Keaton are executive producers, as is showrunner Danny Strong.) So I go, OK, Im kind of scared, but I pretty much know this material works. He always kind of treated them like they were small adults.. Those usually kill. You have that tone: I know you like to talk in sport metaphors. [56] He also briefly reprised his role as Vulture in the SSU film Morbius,[57] which released on April 1, 2022. Srpskohrvatski / , 19891999: Breakthrough as a dramatic lead. 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. No, no. My mom thought she was alone in struggling with that stuff. By the way, Im not convinced baseball players of all the athletes are the brightest of the bunch. It's only fitting that Michael J. How did that show up in the work? Were all really close, Meghan Scichilone tells The Independent. Burton exited the third film, replaced by Joel Schumacher, who had a very different take on the material, prompting I know theres an element of randomness to the roles an actor ends up taking, but youve done Dopesick and Worth and The Trial of the Chicago 7 all relatively close to each other. Mom (1983) to megastardom via the gothic Batman (1989) and even more gothic Batman Returns (1992). Im just trying to get a handle. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. They have a son, Sean, born in 1983. The King, voiced by Richard Petty. The first Batman I didnt think was going to happen because when Tim Burton called me, he said, I want to talk about this thing. I go, Cool, what do you got? He tells me and I go, Wow. He said, Go home and read this script. We had developed a relationship. Take close ones right on the edge of the plate. Explain what fentanyl is and that it can be found in pills bought online or from friends. Talk to your loved ones. Im a [expletive] hitter. Then you go, I can hit that. So you just hang in there. Its [expletive]. He starred in The Paper and Multiplicity, and twice in the same role, that of Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in the films Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. [23], Keaton left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts. But I used those scenes as a conduit to get facts out.. 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.). It was my sisters son. Its just [expletive]. Im actually enjoying this. In Dopesick, Michael Keaton Plays a Doctor Duped by Oxycontin The Hulu limited series offers an on-the-ground view of how Purdue Pharmas drug created the Go to work. My son is going to be nine soon, so he only had a few years with him, but Michael just had a way with kids. Simon & Schuster. The crazy thats a lot of times in there and the self-involvement and, at the time, the friggin cocaine, which was everywhere. This series is the trial that should have happened, said Danny Strong (Empire), who created and oversaw the show, which debuted Wednesday. Well, I told his mom, my sister, about it after I had already signed on. 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. Poulters character, a salesman named Billy, is assigned to Keatons character to make sure the family doctor keeps prescribing the drug. 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. Let me hear myself say it. Guys who just said: [Expletive] you. Foul off a few. You look at the acts in Vegas now? He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles, including Jack Butler in Mr. Yeah. In 2022, Keaton won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Hulu's Dopesick. Michael was not, however, a big fan of attention and would likely be horrified by names, buildings or events bearing his name, she laughs. With fentanyl, there is only a short window of time to intervene and save a persons life during an overdose. Oh, sorry. 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. Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony For A Ride In Hollywood. When someone overdoses from fentanyl, breathing slows and their skin often turns a bluish hue. Frankly the reason a reason that a person can be more effective as an actor boy I hate acting talk. The job at hand is to be the doctor and get back to work. The label was based not on findings from clinical trials but on a theory advanced by Purdue that the drug was less addictive than shorter-acting pain killers. Thats a really good question. This is a piece of art, with actors saying dialogue, Strong said. They could be down in the West Village. In Dopesick, when you talk about addiction, the way to heal the problem is to accept that you have a problem, he said. Letterman appearances from the early 80s. You know, Im just so lazy. I miss that stuff with Letterman and those guys. Watching your Letterman appearances from the early 80s. [16] He graduated with the Class of 1969, and studied Speech for two years at Kent State University, where he appeared in plays, and returned to Pennsylvania to pursue his career. James Gunn Unveils Revamped DC Studios Universe Featuring, Elizabeth Olsen Becomes Killer Candy Montgomery in, The NBCUniversal streamer was an afterthought when it launched in 2020. Opening illustration: Source photograph by Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse, via Getty Images, The comments section is closed. Were pals to this day. [31][32] Warner Bros. received thousands of letters of complaint by fans who believed Keaton was the wrong choice to portray Batman. He made his 15 million dollar fortune with Toy Story 3, Yes. [43] Keaton provided the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3 (2010). "Dopesick" star Michael Keaton knows the heartbreak of addiction all too well. Probably you were already angry about the Oxycontin grift, wherein the company Purdue Pharmarun by the extremely wealthy Sackler familypeddled the opioid as a nonaddictive painkiller when it was, in fact, highly addictive. I didnt want to disrespect it. Keaton described his nephew as a loyal and great friend who was a huge sports fan and had a great sense of humor. Shes Cher. And when I say I chased this fish down: giant, hot white-water stretch of the Sustut in British Columbia, for about over an eighth of a mile, maybe closer to a quarter of a mile, and landed it with a broken rod. Basically. 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. 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 then decided that intercutting between Purdues internal machinations and the people suffering in Finch Creek would offer a true understanding of what happened.. I dont know that Ive thought about that specifically. Hell take it well, hes a good guy. Advertisement Advertisement I could never describe it. Is there a story there? In Dopesick, Keaton plays Samuel Finnix, an old-school doctor from a small mining town in Virginia who begins prescribing his patients OxyContin to relieve pg. (Several states have said they will appeal the settlement.). The conversation between you two is just joke after joke after joke, and the one time where you came on walking on your hands? "[24][25] Keaton has said in several interviews that he searched a phone book under "K," saw "Keaton" and decided to stop looking. 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? 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. His feelings were odd, the actor explained, but not necessarily in a bad way, mainly because they had remained friends. But as the characters reveal their struggles, Dopesick gets better and better, emphasizing how dwarfed each individual is by the massive power of Purdue. The truth becomes clear as Finnix watches one patient after another including an injured young coal miner played by Kaitlyn Dever becomes addicted. Anyway, go ahead. Theres something to getting older, says Keaton, a digressive and keyed-up talker, who paced nonstop through his Montana home as we spoke via Zoom. The 34-year-old was lost to fentanyl and heroin, Mr Keaton said in a previous interview. It was released by Triumph Marketing LLC on DVD September 28, 2004. Ad Choices. (Purdue pleaded guilty then to a felony charge of misbranding OxyContin; three of the companys executives each pleaded guilty to a related misdemeanor.). 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