Michael Keaton says he’s going to start using a version of his birth name — Michael Douglas

Keaton told People that he was planning to finally change his name for his 2023 thriller, “Knox Goes Away,” which he also directed. But it was too late when he finally decided to pull the trigger.

“I said, ‘Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it totally got away from me,” he said. “And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that. But that will happen.”

His name appears as Michael Keaton in the credits for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

Keaton is the latest in a growing list of stars who have publicly stated how they prefer to be addressed.

In 2021, Anne Hathaway revealed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that people should call her “anything but Anne,” because although that is her legal name, everyone calls her Annie.

Earlier this year, Emma Stone said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that her first name is really Emily, and would like to be called that instead of Emma.

“I freaked out a couple of years ago. For some reason, I was like, ‘I can’t do it anymore. Just call me Emily,'” she said.