Michael Katon is ready to return to his roots more specifically his birth name the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star shared that after five decades in Show Business playing several iconic characters like Batman and Beetlejuice he wants to use his original moniker Michael Douglas again due to the Screen Actors Guild's rules that no to members can have the same name Katon was forced to come up with a solution due to both Wall Street actor Michael Douglas and talk show host Mike Douglas I was looking through can't remember if it was a phone book The 72-year-old recalled to people in an interview published sep 4 I must have gone I don't know let me think of something here and I went oh that sounds reasonable moving forward Katon plans to be credited professionally as Michael Katon Douglas a combination of his stage name and his real namoth Oscar nominated actor said he planned to use the new name on his 2023 film Knox goes away which he directed and stared but noted that he simply forgot amid the chaos of making the film and said hey just as a warning my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas and it totally got away from me he shared and I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that but that will happen Katon isn't the first Hollywood Alister to decide to revert back to their birth name in a professional setting Emma Stone who coincident accidentally starred alongside Katon in 2014's Birdman previously announced her intentions of returning to her first name of Emily that would be so nice she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published April 24th I would like to be Emily in fact Stone said that several of her colleagues already do when I get to know them people that I work with do she explained I freaked out a couple of years ago for some reason I was like I can't do it anymore just call me Emily