{"id":132008,"date":"2024-06-03T06:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/michael-keaton-turned-into-beetlejuice-like-he-was-possessed-by-a-demon\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T06:12:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T06:12:35","slug":"michael-keaton-turned-into-beetlejuice-like-he-was-possessed-by-a-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/michael-keaton-turned-into-beetlejuice-like-he-was-possessed-by-a-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Keaton Turned Into Beetlejuice &#8220;Like He Was Possessed By A Demon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter 30-plus years away from the character, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-keaton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-keaton\" data-tag=\"michael-keaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Keaton<\/a> had some doubts about discovering Beetlejuice once more for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tim-burton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tim-burton\" data-tag=\"tim-burton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Burton<\/a>\u2018s forthcoming sequel, <em>Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s been so much merchandising of it, I had to drop back to where it started,\u201d Keaton instructed\u00a0<em>Empire<\/em>. \u201cI had to go, \u2018What was my unusual imagination even thinking about when I was developing it in the first place?\u2019 As opposed to seeing a coffee mug or a golf-club cover [adorned with Betelgeuse\u2019s face].\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe character is now not just a few bizarre product of his creativeness; It is now iconic within the Tim Burton canon \u2014 if not the canon of cinema itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe ubiquity of Beetlejuice as a character in the culture created its own challenges. \u201c\u201dThat was fucking bizarre,\u201d Keaton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/michael-keaton-raise-hell-beetlejuice-beetlejuice-love-this-thing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted to Empire<\/a>. \u201cTo be honest with you \u2013 I\u2019m being very frank \u2013 it was off-putting, to look and go, \u2018I don\u2019t want to look like all these little\u00a0<em>things<\/em>, fuck\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 what was the thing that started this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAccording to Burton and and Keaton\u2019s co-stars, the actor appears to have discovered it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt was like he was possessed by a demon, because he just went right back into it,\u201d mentioned Burton. \u201cIt was\u00a0<em>insane<\/em>,\u201d recalled Catherine O\u2019Hara. \u201c<em>Insane<\/em>.\u201d Jenna Ortega put it thusly: \u201cIt was like an animal with a gun had just walked into the room. To watch him physically change and appear and Michael Keaton to be gone, and for me to be dealing with this Beetlejuice guy\u2026It blew my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKeaton, a minimum of is pleased with the movie itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI love it,\u201d he mentioned. \u201cI absolutely love this thing. And I don\u2019t [usually] talk like that. I\u00a0<em>unabashedly<\/em>\u00a0love this. It was not easy to pull off, and I think we did it in spades.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] After 30-plus years away from the character, Michael Keaton had some doubts about discovering Beetlejuice once more for Tim Burton\u2018s forthcoming sequel, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. \u201cThere\u2019s been so much merchandising of it, I had to drop back to where it started,\u201d Keaton instructed\u00a0Empire. \u201cI had to go, \u2018What was my unusual imagination even thinking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5187,613,3406,828,5188,2958],"class_list":{"0":"post-132008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-beetlejuice","9":"tag-demon","10":"tag-keaton","11":"tag-michael","12":"tag-possessed","13":"tag-turned"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}