1990: MICHAEL KEATON interview | Wogan | Classic Celebrity interviews | BBC Archive

[@staxmantim]

Look how quickly he realizes the atmosphere in the room needed to be lifted. Natural showman

[@TheRidgeChannel]

If you haven’t , watch Multiplicity… Keaton nailed it.

[@jazminratzlaff5357]

The most brillant Batman and Beetlejuice ever. And genius in Clean and Sober. Love how Michael Keaton lifts up the energy in rooms, what a handsome sweetheart and true showman/ actor. 😍🥰😘🤩🌟✨📺 🦇

[@IOSARBX]

BBC Archive, cool video I loved it

[@CrystalShip8899]

Anyone remember Michael in Pacific Heights? He played unhinged very well.

[@frizzyred1292]

Yes, the tenant from hell lol. He was good in that movie.

[@TheHAM1980]

One of my faves

[@Illustraful]

@@CrystalShip8899 Watch Desperate Measures. He was great playing unhinged in that too.

[@culttelevision]

Saw it twice the week it came out. Underrated excellence.

[@Bertiesghost]

@@CrystalShip8899 crazy eyed Keaton

[@DaleBaker-e3u]

Michael was a brilliant Batman. The surprising thing, is even back here he looks quite old, only being in his 30's.

[@RolandoRatas]

I was a kid around the time and Keaton to me didn't look or sound or act like Bruce Wayne. He was the wrong choice, he would have made a better Joker I thought.

[@davidevans3227]

who's the man sitting next to him? looks vaguely familiar.. just noticed in the blurb.. 🙂

[@ouroldhouse3674]

I think the suit he's wearing makes him look older.

[@DaleBaker-e3u]

​@@RolandoRatasvery good point made.

[@jammiedodger]

He was dating Courtney Cox at this time. She was smoking hot.

[@cgray8267]

Best Batman ever

[@oneofthegoodonesok]

Agree. It's like Christopher Reeve and Superman.

[@kingrapid]

Agreed! 😎

[@southlondon86]

Agreed. Can’t stand christian bale.

[@jammiedodger]

Had no idea Clean and Sober was released in the UK in 1990. It came out in America in 88!

[@FranzSanchez-ky9up]

I don't think it really got much of a look-in over here. It played in London, but I don't think many other British cities ran it, never mind provincial towns.

[@stewmott3763]

@@FranzSanchez-ky9up Yeah, I only recently watched it for the first time. Right here on KZbin, in fact! Good film though, one of Keaton's best roles.

[@sluggieify]

Fantastic film watched it the other day

[@davidcarrol110]

Things have gone full circle with Dopesick and Beetlejuice 2.

[@knownpleasures]

And The Flash

[@stewmott3763]

Yeah, he's great in Dopesick. He, Kaitlyn Dever and Rosario Dawson are the MVPs in that show, but everyone's really good.

[@Illustraful]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is fantastic. Can't wait to see it again.

[@mikekaraoke]

I'm seeing it at 6pm, can't wait!

[@DudeEnglish]

I’m seeing it tonight

[@Illustraful]

You're both in for a treat.

[@Illustraful]

Hope you both enjoyed it. "Why don't you spill your guts? I'll go first."

[@JBurd3n]

First one is better

[@hoisin75]

It only just dawned on me seeing this how good a joker Keaton would have been if things had been different

[@Qwazin]

Especially coming off of playing Beetlejuice, another manic trickster with white face paint and green hair. It's kinda nuts how he wasn't typecast as The Joker and got to be Batman instead.

[@comoyoko]

Nice thinking!

[@DudeEnglish]

Still think he is the best Batman.

[@darkmeplier8311]

Beetlejuice ❤😊❤

[@Bertiesghost]

I love Keaton but this interview is all over the place.

[@FranzSanchez-ky9up]

He clearly expected a Letterman audience.

[@garethm3242]

As has been said, UK and Ireland audiences find all that forced "whooping" and instant applause nonsense cringy, even to this day. Nothing against Michael, who I respect. Just a different conditioned reaction to artificiality.

[@BenSkyLakewood]

So funny that all these decades later he has another solid beetle juice hit now in 2024

[@stewmott3763]

It really makes me laugh that Michael Keaton's casting as Batman was derided by 'fans' at the time, and now the consensus is about how terrific he was in the part. Although not as much as it makes him laugh, I'd imagine.

[@Bertiesghost]

@@stewmott3763 Same thing happened to Heath Ledger as Joker in ‘08 Batman. Generations of fans never learn.

[@georgemorley1029]

Keaton wasn’t expecting to have to conduct an interview in a morgue.

[@chenlung1]

Conduct?

[@mrsogre]

Do you mean that the audience weren't whooping like the stereotypical American? Would that have been better?

[@johnqpublic331]

Should everyone in the audience have won a car ?

[@securityrobot]

Show the Carrie Fisher interview, when she puts Wogan in his place.

[@KirkRedgate]

I was 6. Crazy.

[@davidevans3227]

i remember a friend trying to explain to me, batman is not necessarily Adam West.. 🙂

[@lafreewaylafreeway]

Super sexy with great expressive eyebrows

[@johnqpublic331]

Why did the first four or so Batman movies have a different actor than the prior movie?

[@hopebgood]

I went to the cinema to see Batman with some mates when it first came out. I fell asleep. I love SF/action/adventure movies but I still can't get into superhero movies.

[@GavinScrimgeour]

Ah, Michael Douglas 😉

[@darkmeplier8311]

Honk honk❤

[@awreckingball]

In those days, America felt like a distant wonderland, and Hollywood actors were its gods. I always wondered why they bothered visiting this small, rainy, and seemingly insignificant island, humouring our obscure TV hosts and peculiarly reserved audiences.

[@londonmadeeasy]

You summed up exactly how I used to feel

[@andydixon2980]

They seemed like 'gods' at the time, but this reveals that they really weren't. Our actors were the gods: Burton, O'Toole, Olivier, Hopkins....different league compared to this hyper 'has been'.

[@londonmadeeasy]

@@andydixon2980 there is no God but Allah

[@andydixon2980]

@@londonmadeeasy yawn..

[@GeorgeHarrisonDarkHorse]

Why do they visit this insignificant island?? 😂🤣 - 🤑💰💸💵💲It’s written into contracts that the main-stars have to promote the film worldwide….and trust me most American stars love England and feel at home. There’s plenty of insignificant places worldwide and the UK will never fall into that category…that’s a fact not an opinion 😉

[@theblackwidowchronicles]

The one and only Batman...No one has come close apart from Bale....Other than that they've all been rubbish

[@Lovelylove4everyone]

He's like Jack Nicholson, but less menacing.

[@IOSARBX]

BBC Archive, Wanna be friends?

[@Tomherbs]

Michael probably would've been better than Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining'

[@ps5andstuffhere]

No

[@SpeccyHorace]

Lol, what?

[@loot6]

No he wouldn't.

[@Alan..W]

Woah! Wonder what drugs he's on here ....

[@eclectica1]

Who, Wogan?

[@markellsamuels5991]

Keaton was the best Batman till Affleck took his crown.

[@hakan341]

Cocaine 😂

[@humblebugg5270]

Why do people write that any time people have bit of energy or charisma

[@southlondon86]

@@humblebugg5270Because it’s a hell of a drug.

[@gagiman7273]

What a terrible intvewer he was.just horrible

[@SpeccyHorace]

He was a better presenter and DJ than an interviewer it's true.

[@Lennymcgra]

Worst audience ever geez.

[@mrsogre]

Perhaps because he was making a fool of himself at the start. He eventually made a decent interviewee, but didn't help himself by running around like a child at beginning.

[@Lennymcgra]

@@mrsogreI think he did that as the atmosphere was so flat. I could be wrong but just the way I see it.

[@mrsogre]

@@Lennymcgra The atmosphere was flat. Is that the fault of the audience? He actually said "Hi folks." Thirty seconds in and he's blaming the audience for his... I don't know. Why don't you tell me what he said in those thirty seconds that was so funny.

[@Lennymcgra]

@@mrsogreJust think there is a weird atmosphere in general which probably hasn’t helped, it’s awkward all round. Batman was a great film at the time though :)

[@loot6]

@@mrsogre I think he got a bit self conscious about the question regarding his physique in the suit.