Originally published on E! Online

Just don’t say his name three times.

Michael Keaton is ready to go back to his roots, specifically his birth name. The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star shared that after five decades in show business, during which he has played several iconic characters such as Batman and Beetlejuice, he wants to go back to using his original moniker – Michael Douglas.

Due to Screen Actors Guild rules that state that no two members can have the same name, Keaton was forced to find a solution that benefited both “Wall Street” actor Michael Douglas and talk show host Mike Douglas.

“I was looking through it – I can’t remember if it was a phone book,” the 72-year-old recalled in an interview with People published on September 4. “I must have thought, ‘I don’t know, let me think of something here.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.'”

Keaton would like to perform professionally under the name Michael Keaton Douglas, a combination of his stage name and his real name.

The Oscar-nominated actor said he planned to use the new name for his 2023 film “Knox Goes Away,” which he directed and stars in, but noted that he simply “forgot” it in the chaos of filming.

“I said, ‘Hey, just a heads up, my name is Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it completely slipped my mind,” he said. “And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create it. But that’s what will happen.”

Keaton is not the first Hollywood star to decide to return to her birth name in a professional setting. Emma Stone, who starred alongside Keaton in 2014’s “Birdman,” had previously announced that she wanted to return to her first name, Emily.

“That would be so nice,” she told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on April 24. “I would love to be Emily.”

In fact, Stone says, several of her colleagues are already doing so.

“When I get to know them, so do the people I work with,” she explained. “I freaked out a few years ago. For some reason I thought, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Just call me Emily.'”