“I said, ‘Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it totally got away from me,” he shared. “And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that. But that will happen.”
Keaton isn’t the first Hollywood A-lister to decide to revert back to their birth name in a professional setting. Emma Stone, who coincidentally starred alongside Keaton in 2014’s Birdman, previously announced her intentions of returning to her first name of Emily.
“That would be so nice,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published April 24. “I would like to be Emily.”
In fact, Stone said that several of her colleagues already do.
“When I get to know them, people that I work with do,” she explained. “I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily.'”
For more celebrities who have changed their real names, read on.