Can Michael Keaton Talk to You for a Minute, Batman to Man?

You mentioned making a video for Biden during the last election, but you only recently started posting more about Kamala Harris. Did you feel any hesitation about weighing in, given how divided everything is?

I run the risk of being another annoying celebrity, but it’s worth it to me. And I think it’s important to walk the line and thread that needle of not being annoying, I guess. Just having people use common sense and listen to you and not do a knee-jerk reaction, which I’m certainly guilty of, instead of screaming and yelling and ridiculing.

What I found moving about your videos is you’re reaching out to people’s better nature. Compassion for people who disagree is something missing from the discourse.

If I’m going out, I want to go out on the upside. I don’t want to go dark and negative. I just don’t want to.

You’re not saying, “You’re a dummy, you’re a bigot.” You’re saying, “Just think about it. You’re better than this.”

Well, I’m sure you have friends, and in my own family that are Trump supporters, but we have too much love in my family to risk throwing that out. So we’re very, very careful. To be honest with you, mostly 99% of the time, we just don’t bring up politics. By and large, it’s not worth risking relationships like that. It’s just not.

But you have a relationship with your audience too. In your Biden video, you said: “You may not want to hear from me, and I understand that, but come on … I’m freakin’ Batman.”

Oh, of course.

It’s almost like, “Hey, if I made you laugh or I made you cheer for me over the years, can that buy me a minute of your time?”

Thank you. You hit it on the head right there. And you have to keep a sense of humor. It’s important. We could go down the list of reasons to vote for one person or not to vote for another person. But if you had to break it down to one thing [about Trump], the man has a total and a 100% inability to laugh at himself. And the great thing about her is she’s the exact opposite. She has an extreme ability and openness to laugh at herself. She just does. You know why? She’s funny. She has a great sense of humor.

That brings us to our last question, and I saved the absolute hardest for the end... Who would Beetlejuice endorse?

Oh man, you know what? I’m afraid to turn him loose.

He’s not a good guy, so he wouldn’t necessarily do the right thing. But maybe he’s not that bad either.

He may not be a good guy, but he’s also not a dumb guy. He’s not a gullible guy. He’s essentially an anarchist, which is worrisome.

He’d go third party on us.

That’s right. [Laughs.] He’s got a tattoo of Robert Kennedy Jr. on his back, probably.

This Q&A has been edited for context and clarity.