Michael Keaton On Reprising His Role of Batman in The Flash, Vulture in Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Michael Keaton is revisiting his comic book roles in Batman in The Flash and Vulture in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and he discussed reprising both roles in a new interview. Keaton spoke with THR and discussed both roles, and you can check out the highlights below:

On being told about Marvel plot points in relation to Morbius: “I’m nodding like I know what the f**k they’re talking about. I go, ‘Uh-huh.’ And I’m thinking, ‘You may as well be explaining quantum physics right now to me. All I know is I just know my guy. And I know the basics.’ So finally, they were looking at me, and they just started laughing. They said, ‘You don’t know what we’re talking about, do you?’ I said, ‘No, I don’t, no idea what you’re talking about.’“

On reprising his role as Batman: “Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that motherf**ker.’ And so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’”

On The Flash’s parallel universes concept: “I had to read it more than three times to go, ‘Wait, how does this work?’ They had to explain that to me several times. By the way, I’m not being arrogant, I hope, about this. I don’t say it like, ‘I’m too groovy.’ I’m stupid. There’s a lot of things I don’t know about. And so, I don’t know, I just kind of figured it out, but this was different. What’s really interesting is how much more I got [Batman] when I went back and did him. I get this on a whole other level now. I totally respect it. I respect what people are trying to make. I never looked at it like, ‘Oh, this is just a silly thing.’ It was not a silly thing when I did Batman. But it has become a giant thing, culturally. It’s iconic. So I have even more respect for it because what do I know? This is a big deal in the world to people. You’ve got to honor that and be respectful of that. Even I go, ‘Jesus, this is huge.’“