Michael Douglas, count your days. Michael Keaton is coming before your name.

The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star, whose birth name is actually Michael Douglas, recently told PEOPLE that he plans to use the name professionally. Sort of. “I said, ‘Hey, just as a heads up, my credits go to Michael Keaton Douglas,'” Keaton said of his work on Knox is leavingwhich he recently directed. But “it completely slipped my mind. And I forgot to give them enough time to put it in and create it. But that will happen,” he promised.

There is of course the matter of Michael Douglas, the extremely famous star of films like Fatal attraction And Wall Streetand son of Hollywood king Kirk Douglas.

Citing SAG mandates (the Screen Actors Guild prohibits actors from signing certain contracts if their stage name is the same as that of another registered member), Keaton recalled how he came up with the surname now commonly associated with him. “I was flipping through — I can’t remember if it was a phone book,” he said, “and I must have thought, ‘I don’t know, let me come up with something here.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.'”

Entertainment weekly has contacted both Michael Keaton and Michael Douglas for comment.

This isn’t the first time Keaton has expressed a desire to return to his roots. He’s been talking about it since the early 1990s. During a 1992 stopover at the Batman Returns At a press conference, Keaton told Terry Wogan that he had been forced to make the name change after signing one of his first major roles: “Because there were already two people in the union with the name Michael Douglas, I got a job and contractually you couldn’t have people with the same name.”

SAG’s other Michael Douglas went by the name Mike and hosted the daytime interview and entertainment program The Mike Douglas Show from 1961 to 1981.

“I finally met Michael Douglas,” Keaton told Wogan, referring to the Basic instinct star, “he’s actually a good guy.” But, Keaton noted, “that’s not even his real name! I’m the only one who had that name. That’s the irony here.”

Well, sort of. The Michael Douglas we know as Michael Douglas was actually born Michael Douglas. But his father, Kirk, was the subject of one of the studio era’s most rigorous Americanization regimes, born Issur Danielovitch. “There’s a talk show host named Mike Douglas. Michael Douglas’ father’s real name was something else, mine is Michael Douglas, but they made me change it. I think something needs to be done about that,” he joked.

Keaton—Keaton Douglas, to be exact—isn’t the only A-lister to express her desire for a name change. Emma Stone recently revealed that her real name is Emily, a name “that would be so fun” to be called by fans. She also opted for a name change early in her career due to official SAG credit rules. The same rules forced another Keaton, Diane, to change her name from Diane Hall in the ’60s.

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Keaton does not plan to change his name to the confusingly repetitive Michael Douglas, but to the somewhat confusing Michael Keaton Douglas.