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The Emmys censored the end of Michael Keaton’s acceptance speech for his work on “Dopesick,” a show about the start of the U.S. opioid crisis, but it wasn’t because he flew off into an angry diatribe.
After first joking with presenter Oprah Winfrey that she’d already won “90 of these [Emmys],” the “Batman” star used his speech to honor his family for supporting his acting aspirations even though they “weren’t exactly patrons of the arts.” Keaton went on to thank his family for “never making me feel foolish, because I went on to do that several times by myself.” At the end of the speech, Keaton called out his doubters, claiming they were “cool now,” before ending his speech by giving his supporters a shoutout: “But I also had those people for all these years when the times were rough who were the true believers … I f***king love you, man.” Obviously, the network had to censor Keaton’s impassioned F-bomb.
In February, Keaton took home a SAG Award for his work on “Dopesick,” and dedicated it to his nephew, who died from a drug addiction, per Deadline. Given Keaton’s tragic, personal experience with the subject matter of “Dopesick,” it makes sense that he’d deliver such a passionate acceptance speech at the Emmys.
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