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Beetle juice star Michael Keaton is going back to using his real name, which coincidentally is the same as that of another Hollywood actor.

The 73-year-old has reprised his role as the troublesome ghost and bio-exorcist for his upcoming film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton.

The film, which hits theaters September 6, is the sequel to Burton’s beloved 1988 horror comedy Beetle juice. Several of the original cast will return, including Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Schitt’s Creek starring Catherine O’Hara as her mother Delia Deetz.

Keaton said People that he had picked his name out of a phone book when he was starting out in Hollywood in the 1970s. The Screen Actors Guild prohibits members from using the same name as another professional actor, and Keaton was forced to drop his birth name as a result.

Now, decades later, he wants to return to his origins.

“I said, ‘Hey, as a warning, my credit will be Michael Keaton Douglas,’” Keaton said of his new film, Knox is leavingwhich he directed.

But he said, “It completely slipped my mind. And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create that.”

He promised, “But it will happen.”

Michael Douglas, 79, is the son of three-time Academy Award nominee Kirk Douglas and is married to Best Supporting Actress winner Catherine Zeta-Jones. He is known for his roles in Wall Street (1987)Fatal attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic instinct (1992), and Traffic (2000).

Keaton explained how he chose the name that eventually made him famous: “I was looking through – I can’t remember if it was a phone book.”

He continued: “I must have thought, ‘I don’t know, let me think of something.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.'”

Keaton has previously said that he had the same name as Douglas, telling Terry Wogan in a 1992 interview: “There were already two people in the union called Michael Douglas, I got a job and contractually you couldn’t have people with the same name.”

He said, “I finally met Michael Douglas, he’s actually a good guy.”

But, he added, “that’s not even his real name! I’m the only one who had that name. That’s the irony here.”

Douglas’ father, Issur Danielovitch, was forced to Americanize his surname in an attempt to conform.