Michael Keaton always fits in his Batman costume: I’m “slim”

Michael Keaton is back as Batman – but only for a short time.

Keaton, 70, will reprise his role as the hero of Gotham City in the upcoming “Flash” movie and he revealed that his Batman costume still fits him 32 years later.

The “Birdman” actor played Bruce Wayne / Batman in Tim Burton’s 1989 film “Batman” and its 1992 sequel “Batman Returns”.

Keaton stopped by Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” on Tuesday and discussed returning to the DC role decades later.

Colbert, 57, asked if the costume should be “out”.

“Slender as always,” Keaton said jokingly of her body. “Same dimensions. Same assembly.

He added that it was ‘cool’ to return to the superhero role, saying, “I don’t know how many there are, like 77 Batman. They think they should form their own union.

In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel published in October 2020, the star of “Beetlejuice” also raised the idea of ​​playing the Caped Crusader again.

“If I don’t feel safe enough, I’ll slip into the suit. It just makes me feel a lot better, ”he told the late night talk show host. “I’m going to walk around the neighborhood a bit. By the way, when things here get a little nervous, I just put on the costume, and boy, things straighten out.

In a separate interview with the other Jimmy – Jimmy Fallon – Keaton said wearing the costume again was “like riding a bike.”

“I don’t know why I didn’t think about it the first time. It’s easier to be really skinny and not work out because you have more room to work, ”he said.

The Oscar-nominated actor then recalled co-star Jack Nicholson, who played the villainous Joker in “Batman,” asked why he was pumping iron on the film set.

“I get ready, I work on the bag and I do it all. Jack Nicholson walks past the one playing the Joker and he looks at me and he says, “What are you doing? And I say, ‘Hey, you know how to exercise.’ He said: ‘Why?’ I stopped, sweaty, and I was like ‘I don’t know,’ ”Keaton said.

“He just walked away. I thought, ‘He’s right.’ Absolutely right, because you have a costume. What do I have to do? The costume makes me look good, ”Keaton added.

“The Flash” hits theaters on November 4, 2022.