Michael Keaton Breaks Down Playing Batman at the Oscars
For DC movie dorks and ’90s kids, one of the biggest highlights of last weekend’s Oscars was the presentation of the Best Visual Effects award, which became an extended gag about Batman featuring the presenters, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, and their shared onscreen nemesis: Batman — as played in the Tim Burton Batman movies by Michael Keaton. After joking about their common onscreen history as Batman villains (DeVito as Penguin, Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze) they started taunting Keaton, seated in the audience, while he played along, sneering at them and even giving them a “come ge...