Michael Keaton talks about working the suit in Batman 89

At a press conference this past Thursday for the upcoming film, RoboCop, Michael Keaton talked about how the uncomfortable Batman suit twinned with his claustrophobia helped him in his performance as Batman.


“When I did the first Batman I made a joke, but I was serious,” said Keaton “I just worked the suit. I made that suit work for me. I’m very claustrophobic, and we didn’t know that the suit was going to work at all until literally hours before we were going to start shooting the suit…In fact, it didn’t totally work. The first time I had to react to something the thing stuck to my face and there’s a giant hole!"

“I started having panic attacks,” he continued “so I thought ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do this.’ And then it hit me: This is perfect, this is designed for this kind of really unusual dude, the Bruce Wayne guy that has this other personality that’s really dark, and really alone and really kind of depressed. This is it. You just take all that stuff the suit was giving me and say ‘Oh, I got it! I know exactly how to do this now.”

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