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Batman star Michael Keaton has told about the time he asked a drunk local for directions during a visit to Glasgow.

During a 2017 appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden, the 66-year-old actor recalled his bizarre encounter with a "hammered" Glaswegian he came across in the "great city" while trying to get to his hotel.

It is understood Keaton was shooting scenes for the cult Scottish football movie A Shot At Glory at the time, which was released in 2000 – and he heaps praise on the "genuinely funny and really nice" people from the city.

Keaton said: "I was staying in a hotel and I was really lost. I didn't know how to get there and there was a guy walking along the road – he wasn't hitch-hiking, exactly.

"I pulled over and asked him for directions... He could have been speaking anything. He was hammered, with a hardcore Glaswegian accent. At this point I'm, like *this* far from his face, trying to understand what he's saying.

"He says to me, 'let me in the car and I'll show you.' I thought, 'Perfect.' So he gets in the car."

Corden laughed as he turned to the camera: "I cannot stress enough, don't do this at home!"

As Keaton mimics the incoherent Glaswegian directing the driver through the city, he tells how he slowly began to realise just how sleekit this good samaritan truly was...

He added: "He was so smart – as drunk as he was, he gets me in the car. I finally make out where he takes me because he takes me to his house, gets out the car and he goes 'Thank you!'"

Just as well we have Google Maps nowadays...