The Borneo Post

Danny DeVito: ‘History with Tim Burton makes time on set a breeze’

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DANNY DeVito says his longstandi­ng working relationsh­ip with Tim Burton made ‘Dumbo’ “even better”.

The 74-year- old Hollywood legend portrays circus ringmaster Max Medici in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of the classic tale about a flying elephant, and he says his history with the iconic filmmaker, having been under his helm in movies such as ‘Mars Attacks’ and Batman Returns’, made their time on set a breeze because they have so much “trust” for one another.

Trust each other

Speaking to ‘Entertainm­ent Tonight’, DeVito said: “Because of the fact that you can come onto the set and talk about things like remember ‘Batman Returns’ and things that we did together, ‘ Big Fish’ and ‘ Mars Attacks’, him visiting my set, me visiting his set.

“All this kind of stuff that you do in the movie business, those things are adding to the fact that you trust each other and you are able to move forward, and maybe contribute and make it even better.”

The ‘ Matilda’ actor’s co- star Michael Keaton - who plays entreprene­ur V. A. Vandevere in the movie - added that whenever he gets a call from Burton to star in one of his films, he never turns him down.

Keaton added: “When I personally get a call, and I bet Danny would say the same, you pretty much say, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna be there.’

“So you just kind of show up and it’s never disappoint­ing.”

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