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The Joe Rogan Experience do you have a favorite at all the movies you've done well I like Batman because it was one that was it broke nobody had any done anything like that before right and I had a big affair with conditioner over there and we fell in love and I hired all UFC fighters to fight my stuff there's no such thing as UFC fighter but no martial arts guys yeah so hit guys from the tongue sword guys you guys went to the hospital they got cut because I pushed the limit on the damn thing and we shot it on the table with the fight sequences with the with the with the the way we shot it everything that we did it may not look like it today but in those days Tim Burton was going to use a six inch knife I said no and we got the blade and we got the guys and they did this thing so Michael Keaton was a great [ __ ] genius he was a great father the best because he's the best actor in the world he's one of the top five actress who's ever lived he's looked at his career look what he does look what he did on stair on on quite loose or whatever it is on Vicodin or whatever it is that three hour piece is you know and I'm sure he's in the program I would have guessed a guest I know he did because I hired him out of a movie called clean and sober and I saw in his eyes he could fight because as a kid I got in so many fights but I would read your eyes before I'd even make a move if I saw something I didn't like I'd probably figure a way to get out of it you know and that's how I went from Hollywood to the chairman of Sony to biotech companies to this to that to the UFC maybe it would have been great um because I have good instincts and I have I I kind of have like ordinary taste let's say did people resist they resisted Michael Keaton as Batman and nobody wanted me yeah they didn't like that idea because he was a stand-up comic yeah they wanted a six foot three guy to come in with the big muscles I said no look in his eyes he's a killer he'll stab you five times in the net before you even know what happened do your favorite Batman yeah Christian Bale's a pretty [ __ ] good Batman too bro he was really [ __ ] yeah those two those two guys that that guy is willing
to do things that most people are not willing to do like he's willing to get fat he's willing to like almost die of starvation that's how they have a career yeah it's just like if you watch that machinist which is not the best movie but what's interesting about the movie is just Christian Bale the fact that he's basically a skeleton yeah he ate like a can of tuna and an apple a day crazy it's crazy and then like six months later he was Batman yeah I know jacked I know you have to be crazy you have to be crazy as my good friend and he's crazy as a loon but it has to be it but and a brilliant guy and thank God he kind of retired like 10 years ago watch Chinatown yeah I watch time I do I love [ __ ] amazing I know like that guy of course he's crazy how else could he be that you can't I'm standing on a corner La Cienega Santa Monica and with my wife at the time Leslie on Warren she's pregnant with my son this goes back 50 years ago maybe whatever it was Four Guys spoke by in the car and they go Cinderella sucks and they flip it off now I'm from the valley so I said just wait she played Cinderella on television that was her thing so I said wait here I jumped in my car and I chased these guys down the street I caught him at a signal I came up next I was about to hit him he said no no I'm in her acting class man we're all actors that was a joke whatever it is many years later I do Witches of Eastwick and we're going to meet Jack Nicholson and as I walk in he looks at me says Hey Cinderella sucks that was him it was him that's hilarious yes holy [ __ ] yes yes yes yes oh my God that's hilarious yeah no I've got it you almost beat up Jack Nicholson yeah no but I mean that's hilarious that it's him all those years later yeah I was defending what I thought was my that's my pregnant lady how [ __ ] good is he in The Shining yeah no he's not I watched that again recently too God he's a he's a he's a genius yeah there's a few of those guys that like they if you ever seen the video I'm sure you have there's a video of him warming
up for his scene where he uh goes through the bathroom door with the hatchet yeah I saw it yeah and he's just like jumping around the room and getting himself fired up I'm like yeah he never knew how to fight but he's a tough guy yeah well he'll fight if he has to he was an extraordinary big strong leg Talent yeah there's there's people that just like Captivate a story