Street Roots • May 19-25, 2017
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Keaton changed his last name early in his
career, as there was already another Michael
Douglas registered with the Screen Actors
Guild.
S.M.: Around the world, McDonald’s
represents America more than anything else.
M.K.: In some ways, yeah.
S.M.: Given where we are today, doesn’t it
seem a bit ironic?
M.K.: And you’re the only single person
besides myself who’s said
that. It’s the truth.
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S.M.: Essentially, the story
o f America is the story of
immigrants. B u t Ray Kroc
thinks his fam ily was the
wrong kind o f immigrant. He
says: “Who’d want to eat at a
place called Kroc’s ?”
M.K.: There is no wrong
kind of immigrant. If you’re
an immigrant who wants to
enter the country and kill
M IC H A E L K E A T O N
people - that’s the wrong
O F 'T H E F O U N D E R '
kind of immigrant. Other
than that, this country is buil
on immigrants. While it has
to be monitored certainly,
because the world’s a
dangerous place, this is a movie about
consumption and consumerism and
capitalism and the American Dream - and
immigration is an integral part to all that.
S.M.: You could have played Ray Kroc as a
hero or a villain. Does it matter i f we like
him? Does it matter i f we like the methods he
used to achieve what he did?
M.K.: It depends on who you are. It
doesn’t matter to me; that’s not my job. I
couldn’t have played him as one or the
other. I played the character, the story that
had to be told. He was what he was. I’m not
remotely interested in trying to make it any
sweeter.
S.M.: What values do we prize more in
society - is it better to be the good guy or the
successful guy?
M.K.: Yeah, where do you take leave of
your ethics and your values? I hope you
P H O T O C O U R T E S Y O F S T U D IO C A N A L
Michael Keaton stars in “The Founder. ”
become a billionaire - I hope everyone in
the world gets to be a billionaire! But it’s
not going to happen. It’s not a question
about being successful; it’s a question of
what you do with it, to what end and what
you do in order to get that.
S.M.: So Ray may not have founded
McDonald’s, but he did invent the power o f the
brand. Today, our world seems to be ruled by
brands, whether it’s Google or Apple or
Trump.
M.K.: I agree wholeheartedly. The
world’s a big, giant strip mall. The irony of
the people who support (Trump), he is so
not one of them and yet they claim him as
one of their own. It’s astounding. It’s logic-
defying. One of my small heroes is the little
farmer with the little farm next to Trump’s
golf course in Scotland.
S.M.: Michael Forbes.
M.K.: This guy, I love this guy. I like what
he said: “‘I don’t really care what you want
S.M.: I think Trump did whatever he
wanted to do.
M.K.: He totally beat the fuck out of it.
S.M.: B u t he’s not happy about the offshore
wind farm we’re planning to build next to it.
M.K.: Please do. How much do you want?
You know, I invested in wind farms in the
’70s and lost every cent. Back then, I really
believed in that technology; still do. I’ll
come over and help put them up.
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landscape, what God left and play that. Play
the game with nature and not try to beat
the fuck out of it.
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