At least I did that.. Honest to God. Burton exited the third film, replaced by Joel Schumacher, who had a very different take on the material, prompting Doing a scripted series also offered the unique advantage, Strong said, of putting the viewer inside of rooms with the Purdue executives as they discuss their manipulative marketing campaigns. Those scenes are not word-perfect recreations, Strong acknowledged, but they are based on mountains of existing research from Macy, who is an executive producer and helped write the series, and on additional research by Strong, Macy and others. [43] Keaton provided the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3 (2010). But as the characters reveal their struggles, Dopesick gets better and better, emphasizing how dwarfed each individual is by the massive power of Purdue. Once the role was retooled to be a long-running series regular, Keaton withdrew. 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. Multiplicity is one of my favorites, too, and thats different. Whats really interesting about you saying that is, man, do I miss it sounds egotistical being funny. How did that show up in the work? 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 So somebody said, You gotta go see this guy me. Keaton and Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight (2015). While making the docuseries, which premieres Wednesday, the filmmakers say they uncovered Murdaugh-related corruption stretching to the state and the federal level., Kerry Washington Goes for LaughsAnd TruthIn Hulu Comedy. The job at hand is to be the doctor and get back to work. You know people take superhero movie stuff even more seriously than Jesus these days, right? (Purdue pleaded guilty then to a felony charge of misbranding OxyContin; three of the companys executives each pleaded guilty to a related misdemeanor.). The best way to prevent fentanyl use is to. The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood. They could be down in the West Village. I think he had a scholarship to Cornell and . And Andy was right about a lot of stuff that Id thought: I dont know if you should do that with this guy. Was it cathartic to work on Dopesick? You know, I probably do have some fishing stories. [23], Keaton left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts. Tuck tuck fold. 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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. [47] He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Thomson and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. [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. I know you like to talk in sports metaphors so [Laughs.] Do the thing. Then you start to literally get tired of hearing your own voice, and also metaphorically get tired. I get like that. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to, Fox Searchlight Pictures, via Everett Collection. A buddy of mine who was a rod builder, Ive never told him that his rod broke. Sheila Flynn reports, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Michael Keatons nephew, Michael Douglas Scichilone, poses with the his mother - the actors sister, Pam - and two sisters, Meghan and Emily. Im looking forward to a time when my work becomes other work, frankly. He also wrote an ESPN blog on the Pirates during the final months of their 2013 season. [7][8] His father, George A. Douglas (19051977), worked as a civil engineer and surveyor, and his mother, Leona Elizabeth (ne Loftus; 19092002), was a homemaker, and came from McKees Rocks. Is that indicative of any increased desire to address politics more in your work? I lost a nephew to heroin. I thought I would write early on, and I quit because Im lazy. There were moments where we were reading the script, and you would say, Jeez, this is Michaels story. 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Keaton had a relationship with actress Courteney Cox from 199095. Keaton later portrayed Stan Hurley in American Assassin. I was always afraid that the fun would go away. Dopesick follows Finnix and his patient Betsy (Kaitlyn Dever) over the course of several years, as Oxycontin rips their lives to shreds. Were sitting around telling these stories, how fly fishermen do, and I said, Most of my fishing stories, theyre seldom about catching fish. However, probably the best fish I ever caught was a steelhead up in British Columbia with a broken rod that I had to hold together in two pieces. [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. At the fore is Richard Sackler (Michael Stuhlbarg), who must navigate family politics and government regulations in his drive to create a blockbuster drug and attain the companys presidency. To be totally honest, its not like everybody was knocking on my door. Thats real good. Whats the trick? Then, that wasnt it. The disease of being a morose comic? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 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. Protesters in 2019 outside a courthouse in Boston, Mass., where a judge heard arguments in a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. Anyway, go ahead. 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. Oh, sorry. You know, probably. Theres fair and theres unfair. You know, the imagery does seem weird. Take close ones right on the edge of the plate. I think her thinking was, Lets go hipper, lets go young, because Im Cher and Im going to do my rock tunes. Prescription drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealersmarketed as OxyContin, Vicodin and Xanax are often laced with fentanyl. However, when Burton was dropped as director of the film, Keaton left the franchise as well. 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. He decided to use a stage name to satisfy SAG rules, as there were already an actor (Michael Douglas) and daytime host (Mike Douglas) with the same or similar names. 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. [26] Keaton's film debut came in a small non-speaking role in the Joan Rivers film Rabbit Test. A lot of care went into picking the right actress to play Alex P. Keaton's We were all hanging the other day who was I talking to? 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. Hes such a familiar, even nostalgic, figure at this point that its easy to take his uniqueness for granted. Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer, filming was set to commence on October 1, 2019. By the way, Im not convinced baseball players of all the athletes are the brightest of the bunch. Im just saying. Let me hear myself say it. Do some other things. Then the next level of that is are you having any fun or are you even really any good right now? He played the title character in Tim Burton's horror-comedy Beetlejuice, earning Keaton widespread acclaim and boosting him to Hollywood's A list. [30], Keaton's career was given another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton, this time as the title comic book superhero of the 1989 film Batman. That quality is on display in various forms in his recent work as a contract killer in the thriller The Protg, released in August; as Kenneth Feinberg, the real-life lawyer in charge of dispensing the 9/11 victims compensation fund in Worth, which premieres on Netflix Sept. 3; and as a small-town doctor whose eyes gradually open to the opioid crisis in the Hulu limited series Dopesick, slated for release on Oct. 13. 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. His family are speaking out about how drugs killed his namesake nephew in 2016. So anyway, that was traumatic. We seriously do not have time for that. First of all 100 percent true absolutely no cocaine was involved. And especially young kids, who maybe cant articulate every issue that theyre having., The family foundation recently donated $50,000 to the center, and theyre giving us the naming rights for the occupational therapy, the gym, for the kids - because we thought that that would be the part of the building Michael would have loved, his sister tells The Independent. After going to Costa Rica to find vampire bats while in pursuit of a cure for his [5][9] Keaton was raised in a Catholic family. [36] Keaton later reprised the role for the sequel Batman Returns (1992), which was another critically acclaimed success. I was direct and honest with her. I didnt want to disrespect it. Maybe I did. I was going to ask if you could use one to describe where you are in your career now. He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles, including Jack Butler in Mr. Explain what fentanyl is and that it can be found in pills bought online or from friends. Then she started telling me how much time she wanted me to do, and I went, [expletive], I dont have this. Im probably overanalyzing it. pp. So I went home and read it, and I went, I dont think hes going to want me to do this after I say what I think. Then we met and I go, I think the character is this, this, this and this. I remember Tims hair was really long, and hes looking at me, and as Im talking his hair is flapping up and down, like nodding woo woo, and I went, I guess hes thinking like Im thinking. Unlike that HBO show, Hulus new eight-part series Dopesick doesnt offer laughs at the outlandish behavior of its titans of industry. With fentanyl, there is only a short window of time to intervene and save a persons life during an overdose. He always kind of treated them like they were small adults.. A major beneficiary is the Matilda H. Theiss center, where they really focus on children and mental health. He popped up in various popular TV shows including Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. Its not like a thing you can touch. Were pals to this day. 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. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. pg. environmentally conscientious construction company. Maybe its that nothing was coming around that made me interested. It has been reported that Keaton will star in Goodrich, a film about a man whose second wife suddenly leaves him, forcing him to take sole care of their nine-year-old twins. 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. 1988 was the seminal year in Keaton's career where he landed two major unconventional roles, forever changing his image to audiences. Over eight dizzying episodes, seven of which were sent to critics, everything unravels. Whats your function in life? 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