It just doesnt. He was a huge sports fan and, like, knew every Steelers statistic inside and out starting in the Sixties, says his sister, 43. I do realize what you noticed because I remember being on a movie with someone Im not going to say who, theyre friends of mine now and I found out years later they assumed I was on something, and they got worried. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Cocreators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, plus star Dominique Fishback, get candid about the wild new series that is a sister to, increasingly popular prestige television crutch, a year after he oversaw the approval of OxyContin. To be totally honest, its not like everybody was knocking on my door. Explain what fentanyl is and that it can be found in pills bought online or from friends. (A spokeswoman for the now-dissolved Purdue Pharma, Michele Sharp, declined to comment for this article; Paul Holmes and Davidson Goldin, spokesmen for the two branches of the Sackler family with a history of ownership in Purdue Pharma, also declined to comment. You have that tone: I know you like to talk in sport metaphors. Not only do the roles get a little different, but your interpretation of them might be more interesting too.. He has zigzagged Whats your function in life? Im probably overanalyzing it. Im developing this thing with Jay Roach and Owen Burke and Adam McKay. [48] In 2015, Keaton appeared as Walter V. Robinson in Tom McCarthy's Academy Award-winning film Spotlight, and in 2016, he starred as businessman Ray Kroc in the biopic The Founder. Michael Stuhlbarg, center, as Richard Sackler. Thats a really good question. That takes up a fair amount of my time. Honestly, Im probably too frightened to phone anything in. The thought can sometimes lighten the reality, she says. He was such a sports guy.. In Dopesick, Michael Keaton Plays a Doctor Duped by Oxycontin The Hulu limited series offers an on-the-ground view of how Purdue Pharmas drug created the Thats the goal of the foundation set up in his nephews memory, too, the late sports fans sister tells The Independent. [5] He was raised between McKees Rocks,[6] Coraopolis and Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. You know, Im just so lazy. Im blessed to do something that might improve someones life.. Drug overdose deaths, largely caused by the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, reached record highs in the United States in 2021. You know, so a couple occasions where, you know, people were kinda-- not just, maybe did more than doubt you. But could you stop?. The new series, which counts Barry Levinson (Diner, Rain Man) among its directors, picks up, in a sense, where that documentary leaves off; using the freedom of scripted television, it ventures inside the four-year investigation behind that report as led by a group of federal prosecutors (played by John Hoogenakker, Jake McDorman and Peter Sarsgaard) and a frustrated Drug Enforcement Administration agent (Rosario Dawson). [44] He announced in June 2010 his interest in returning for a Beetlejuice sequel. [43] Keaton provided the voice of Ken in Toy Story 3 (2010). He starred in The Paper and Multiplicity, and twice in the same role, that of Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in the films Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. Its not even funny. Simon & Schuster. Then youll have to keep asking yourself, Yeah, but what is that? Prescription drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealersmarketed as OxyContin, Vicodin and Xanax are often laced with fentanyl. 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Keaton described his nephew as a loyal and great [19] (In 2003, after Fred Rogers' death, Keaton hosted a PBS memorial tribute, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor;[20] in 2018, he hosted a 50th anniversary special of the series for PBS, Mister Rogers: It's You I Like. And when the drug is too hard to come by, heroin becomes an easy substitute. The 34-year-old was lost to fentanyl and heroin, Mr Keaton said in a previous interview. say they bear no responsibility for the crisis, sweeping protections built into a bankruptcy settlement, a 120-page Justice Department report from 2006, reached record highs in the United States in 2021, drugs sold online or by unlicensed dealers, a uniquely misleading F.D.A.-approved label, safe to sell over the counter without a prescription, By far the largest factor is drug overdoses, mostly from fentanyl, expand the use of medication to treat substance use disorders in pregnant women. Dopesick, an eight-episode limited series based on the book by journalist Beth Macy, turns this story into a personal one centered on West Virginia doctor Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton), a fixture of his community who starts prescribing Oxycontin after a Purdue Pharma rep assures him its a nonaddictive treatment for the pain his patients are experiencing. [42], Keaton starred in the 2007 TV miniseries The Company, set during the Cold War, in which he portrayed the real-life CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton. Dude, dude, dude. Batman: The Complete History. You know, the imagery does seem weird. [68] The film was cancelled in August 2022. I dont think print serves that question, to be really honest with you. Maybe its that nothing was coming around that made me interested. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, In Dopesick, Keaton plays a rural doctor sucked into the opioid epidemic. Mom was different. [46], Keaton starred alongside Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts in Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), playing Riggan Thomson, a screen actor, famous for playing the iconic titular superhero, who puts on a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story to regain his former glory. But I was living. A small quantity goes a long way, so its easy to suffer an overdose. I cant explain it. Then you get onstage, and theyre there to see Cher. How fortunate am I that good can come from something that I do just because I wanted to become an actor?, Theres massive inequity in the world. You know, probably. [56] He also briefly reprised his role as Vulture in the SSU film Morbius,[57] which released on April 1, 2022. The Sacklers say they bear no responsibility for the crisis and are likely never to face trial, owing to the sweeping protections built into a bankruptcy settlement that dissolved Purdue Pharma last month. Keaton later portrayed Stan Hurley in American Assassin. Nancy Griffin; Kim Masters (1997). Michael Keaton stars in Dopesick as a doctor who watches as the OxyContin he was manipulated into prescribing ravages his small Appalachian town. I was going to ask if you could use one to describe where you are in your career now. We didnt do this to ourselves, said Hampton, who was injured while hiking in 2003 and prescribed opioids. So I say, OK, lets do it. Then everybody was saying, Oh, my God, the worlds going to end. I thought, Really? After a while you kind of go: I got some ammunition left. [3], Michael John Douglas, the youngest of seven children, was born at Ohio Valley Hospital in Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania,[4] on September 5, 1951. My attitude was make em throw you your pitch. Michael Keaton has been a star for long enough to have gone through multiple and distinctly different cycles of fame and artistic expression. No. Frankly the reason a reason that a person can be more effective as an actor boy I hate acting talk. Im just saying. Sheila Flynn reports, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Michael Keatons nephew, Michael Douglas Scichilone, poses with the his mother - the actors sister, Pam - and two sisters, Meghan and Emily. There is no time, he said. Dopesick would be better if the story did not jump around so much in time; the timeline-shifting is an increasingly popular prestige television crutch that replaces more thorough storytelling. What Dopesick does best is slowly unfold the breathtaking scope of the drugs impacttying together the story of growing addiction and Purdue Pharmas rapacious marketing. 158174; Alison McMahan (2005). Why is he bothering us? I remember starting with some kind of architecture-related joke. Good fortune. [Laughs.] Thats real good. Pharmacies keep reporting break-ins where the thieves only want the pill. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity from two conversations. Srpskohrvatski / , 19891999: Breakthrough as a dramatic lead. So somebody said, You gotta go see this guy me. Mom (1983), Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice (1988), the DC Comics superhero Batman / Bruce Wayne in Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992) and the upcoming film The Flash (2023), and the Marvel She also brought numerous sources into the writers room, including former Purdue employees and a doctor who discussed the pressure he felt from sales reps and his own addiction to the drug. Earlier in his speech, which began comically but quickly turned serious, Mr Keaton said he felt honoured to have a profession capable of sparking thought, conversation and actual change. When I get involved like that creatively, I get excited again. We do it to raise awareness and to make sure that Michaels name and legacy live on and that something positive comes from something terrible, she says. I know you like to talk in sports metaphors so [Laughs.] Better roles will come around. Maybe Ill tell ya another time. Hell take it well, hes a good guy. That was not it. I take pride in holding those people accountable for the victims of this opioid crisis, he added. As a society, it appears we have learned nothing from that experience, he said about the story of Purdue and OxyContin. (His character, like several others, is an amalgam of several real-life people.) The pills dosage size keeps doubling; the excuses for how to mitigate so-called breakthrough pain keep coming; and at one point, faced with rising cases of drug abuse, Purdue brings in an expert who describes the phenomenon as pseudo-addiction.. A guy like you probably said, I understand all of this. [Laughs.] I mean, Thomas McGuane, hes an old friend. Macy said she had persuaded Strong to hire the Kentucky novelist Robert Gipe (Trampoline) to ensure that the series depicted small-town Appalachia without stereotypes. But I think works real important. [16] He graduated with the Class of 1969, and studied Speech for two years at Kent State University, where he appeared in plays, and returned to Pennsylvania to pursue his career. Im really not bragging: What little act I had, I knew that some parts of it worked. I read some old magazine profile of you where you made passing mention about bombing as a young comedian onstage in Las Vegas. They just did. Then, that wasnt it. Shes Cher. Meanwhile, in the Appalachian community where Finnix and Betsy live, Oxy has taken over. Heres the deal: Everything comes down to the question of what do you want? Anyway, go ahead. The King, voiced by Richard Petty. And then if you can live in that without sounding like Im saying something that makes me want to go outside and vomit you kind of raise your consciousness. He later appeared in a variety of films ranging from dramas and romantic comedies to thriller and action films, such as Clean and Sober (1988), Pacific Heights (1990), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), The Paper (1994), Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), The Other Guys (2010), RoboCop (2014), Need for Speed (2015), Spotlight (2015), The Founder (2016), Dumbo (2019), Worth (2020), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). Yeah. When the series isnt huddling with the investigators and victims of the crisis, it is wandering the board rooms and mansions of its beneficiaries, the Sackler family, whose fortune was estimated in April to be around $11 billion. OK. I hope people will understand that many people were addicted through no fault of their own but because of Purdue pushing the message that opioids were now safe. We do not have time. Hed hate it, she says. For us, I think that Michael self-medicated in some capacity and so I think its so important for people to get the health care, the mental health [care] they need and deserve. The actors niece and Mr Scichilones sister tells The Independent that she hasnt seen Dopesick, though the Pennsylvania-based family is in frequent contact with her famous uncle. Chronicle Books. Mr Scichilone, of Mt Lebonan, Pennsylvania, was a victim of the opioid epidemic who died in 2016; he was known for being great with children, especially his nephew, Cash, who is pictured, To support such families, in her brothers memory, Meghan and her family started the Michael Douglas Scichilone Foundation just months after his untimely death. [17], Keaton first appeared on TV in the Pittsburgh public television programs Where the Heart Is and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1975). Keaton was married to Caroline McWilliams from 198290. Its crazy. You dont mean Huey Lewis? Thats a whole other conversation. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. I dont know. He had a cameo in the Tenacious D short film Time Fixers, an iTunes exclusive. You go: Uh-uh. Protesters in 2019 outside a courthouse in Boston, Mass., where a judge heard arguments in a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. Im a news junkie. But the bigger distinction is that Dopesick, while a scripted drama, is about a real-life familys alleged role in creating one of the biggest public health catastrophes in American history: the opioid crisis. Probably you were already angry about the Oxycontin grift, wherein the company Purdue Pharmarun by the extremely wealthy Sackler familypeddled the opioid as a nonaddictive painkiller when it was, in fact, highly addictive. James Gunn Unveils Revamped DC Studios Universe Featuring, Elizabeth Olsen Becomes Killer Candy Montgomery in, The NBCUniversal streamer was an afterthought when it launched in 2020. I could never describe it. Burton exited the third film, replaced by Joel Schumacher, who had a very different take on the material, prompting I think there was a little overall boredom but not with the business bored with me. Was it cathartic to work on Dopesick? After becoming known for his hyper-comedic performances in the early 80s, Keaton switched to dramatic roles first as a recovering drug addict in Clean And Sober Seriously? he asked. The doctor in Dopesick or Ken Feinberg in Worth are both sort of authority figures, which can be said of a lot of the characters youve played since Birdman. But earlier in your career sorry for using that word pretty much from Night Shift to The Paper you tended to play anti-authority types. I thought I would write early on, and I quit because Im lazy. He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles, including Jack Butler in Mr. This is a piece of art, with actors saying dialogue, Strong said. Its doable. If youre concerned that a loved one could be exposed to fentanyl, you may want to buy naloxone. 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