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Volume 652
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
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Page 7 of 7
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Keaton has traveled a lot in the past few months, shooting Dopesick in Virginia in the spring and The Flash in the U.K. in early summer. "I've been gone for a long time, which is one of my least favorite
things," he says. "I'm like an old lady. I am. I like my little house, I like my bed, I like my dogs."
Wary of shooting during COVID, he began production of Dopesick just as the vaccines were becoming available to people in his age group. "I was desperate," he says of wanting to get vaccinated as soon as he
could. "I was literally driving around, looking for a place, thinking I might luck out and somebody would go, Sure, Mike, come on in. We have some. I literally went into some drugstore, saying, Is there
any plan here that I can sign up for? Because I just believed in it. I didn't want to get sick, but also, I didn't want to get people sick." (He eventually was vaccinated while in Virginia.)
One of the strongest lures from acting for Keaton was the equestrian sport of cutting, in which horse and rider work together to demonstrate the horse's athleticism and ability to handle cattle. "That's
the thing that took me away," Keaton says. "There have always been these things I did where I drifted off, and then I thought, I've got to go back and make some money.' And that was one of them. And that's
a dangerous one. That'll take all your money and you can't win anything. You can't win enough to keep going. But it's so addicting. It's a great combination of being totally focused on what you have to
do... and at
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the same time, let it go. Let her cut. It's that great thing of trying to do it really gracefully on a 1,000-pound animal that is like a little f**king rocket ship, and it's really exciting. Just talking
about it now, I think, Man, I'd like to go do that again and lose all my money."
Asked whether there are parallels between cutting, with its moments of intense focus and flow, and acting, Keaton says, "A hundred percent, and I'm glad you said it, not me, so I don't have to sound
pretentious.... That's why you keep doing it [acting]," he says. "But you only get moments of it. You go, Oh yeah, I got that one,' a scene or a moment or something. Sometimes you just go, boom!"
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