Keanu Reeves is sharing his fond reminiscences of working with the late Diane Keaton.
“Whole professional,” Reeves described the Oscar winner to E! Information on Monday, October 13, at a New York Metropolis screening of his new movie, Good Fortune.
The Matrix star added, “She was very good to me. Beneficiant, beneficiant artist and a really particular, distinctive individual.”
Information of Keaton’s loss of life at age 79 broke on Saturday, October 11. A reason for loss of life has but to be revealed. The actress’ household “requested for privateness” in an announcement to Individuals.
Reeves, 61, starred alongside Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Nancy Meyers’ hit rom-com One thing’s Gotta Give, launched in 2003, and instructed E! Information that it was a pleasure to look at the veteran actors on set.
“It was cool to have the ability to see her and Jack Nicholson collectively. Simply with the historical past they shared and the best way the fondness and love they’d for one another. It’s actually cool,” he mentioned.
Earlier on Monday, Meyers, who directed and wrote One thing’s Gotta Give, shared her personal tribute to Keaton in an Instagram publish. Meyers and Keaton additionally collaborated on 1987’s Child Increase, 1991’s Father of the Bride and its 1995 sequel.
“These previous 48 hours haven’t been straightforward,” Meyers, 75, wrote. “Seeing your entire tributes to Diane has been a consolation. As a film lover, I’m with you all — we’ve misplaced an enormous. An excellent actress who repeatedly laid herself naked to inform our tales. As a girl, I misplaced a buddy of virtually 40 years — at instances over these years, she felt like a sister as a result of we shared so many really memorable experiences.”
Diane Keaton’s well-known associates are opening up about her public appearances within the months earlier than her loss of life. Keaton’s longtime pal and E-book Membership costar Ed Begley Jr. recalled one among their closing interactions, which occurred to contain Jack Nicholson. “I noticed her pretty just lately at Jack Nicholson’s birthday celebration, and it was good to see […]
Meyers continued, “As a filmmaker, I’ve misplaced a reference to an actress that one can solely dream of. All of us seek for that somebody who actually will get us, proper? Properly, with Diane, I imagine we mutually had that. I all the time felt she actually received me, so writing for her made me higher as a result of I felt so safe in her fingers. I knew how weak she might be. And I knew how hilarious she might be, not solely with dialogue (which she mentioned phrase for phrase as written however managed to all the time make it sound improvised) however she might be humorous sitting at a dinner desk or simply strolling right into a room.”
Meyers went on to reward Keaton’s spectacular physique of labor, which noticed her win the Oscar for Finest Actress for her function in Annie Corridor.
“I’ve watched all of her groundbreaking spectacular work with Woody Allen one million instances and I watch her efficiency in Warren Beatty’s REDS with awe,” she wrote. “Diane did precisely the identical for them as a result of that’s what she does. She goes deep. And I do know those that have labored together with her know what I do know… she made all the things higher. Each arrange, daily, in each film, I watched her give it her all.”
Meyers added of working with Keaton, “After I wanted her to cry in scene after scene in One thing’s Gotta Give, she went at it laborious after which in some way made it humorous. And I keep in mind she would generally spin in a sort of goofy circle earlier than a take to purposely get herself off steadiness or no matter she wanted to shed so she might be within the second.”
“She was fearless, she was like no one ever, she was born to be a film star, her snicker might make your day and for me, realizing her and dealing together with her modified my life. Thanks, Di. I’ll miss you eternally,” Meyers concluded.
