Michael Keaton used to have a lot of fun with Jack Nicholson in the 90s.
The 72-year-old star met the iconic 87-year-old Hollywood actor when they co-starred in Batman in 1989 – Michael was Batman and Jack was the Joker.
The Pennsylvania native, who now appears in the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, had some wild moments with the three-time Oscar winner.
They hung out at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, California, with Playboy bunnies.
And Jack flew Michael to Paris on a private jet where they started partying after 10pm.
But Keaton has now spoken out. People that the The party scene wasn’t for him, and he actually preferred the intellectual conversations the two had together.
Michael Keaton used to party with Jack Nicholson in the ’90s, he told People; seen in 2002
The 72-year-old star met the iconic 87-year-old Hollywood actor when they co-starred in Batman in 1989 – Michael was Batman and Jack was the Joker.
Instead of hitting the clubs and drinking Cristal from Louis Roederer’s champagne house, Michael just wanted to chat with The Shining actor.
“I really liked it,” Keaton said.
“He’s very, very smart. Really. A real reader. He has an innate intelligence and a self-taught intelligence… Because he devours books.”
And Jack was a shrewd conversationalist: “There’s always something to talk about. You have a lot of opinions about things when you’re in a conversation.”
But most of the time Nicholson – who used to date Anjelica Huston and Lara Flynn Boyle – wanted to live a life of luxury.
“He flew me to Paris on a jet,” Keaton shared.
“I was like a boy scout. I was ready to go out like a normal person. Jack didn’t come out of his room until 10 or 10:30 at night.”
That means they would hit Parisian clubs like Club Castel at midnight. “Jack was having a great time. He had a huge smile on his face,” the actor said.
But Keaton didn’t like staying out all night and having fun.
They hung out at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion in Holmby Hills, California.
(From left to right) Playboy Playmate Sheila Levell, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and Playboy Playmate Holly Madison in 2003
And Jack flew Michael to Paris on a private jet, where they started partying after 10pm. Jack was seen in Paris in 1990.
Roman Polanski, Nicholson and Anjelica Huston in Paris in 1984
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“I got back to the hotel before him and I remember thinking, ‘This is fun, but it’s kind of a waste for me,'” the star shared.
Keaton is also best known for his lead role in 1988’s Beetlejuice and admitted that he almost didn’t take the role when it was offered to him by director Tim Burton because he “didn’t understand the character” and couldn’t understand the quirky filmmaker.
She told the magazine: “I just said, ‘I don’t know what it is and I’d probably be better off getting someone else because I don’t understand it.'”
“It’s not like, ‘I don’t understand it. I thought it was bad.’ I literally didn’t know what it was.”
However, they quickly hit it off and he went on to reprise the role for the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
She continued: “My gut was like, ‘This guy is something special. He’s definitely something special. ‘ Plus, I liked him. I liked him as a person. I got along with him, and he seemed like the eccentric artist I was looking for.”