Patricia Arquette is the newest star to share her recollections of the late Diane Keaton.
“She was simply so quick, and so alive and so beneficiant,” the Severance actress advised People on Monday, October 13.
Keaton directed Arquette, 57, in a 1991 tv film, Wildflower, which costarred Beau Bridges and Reese Witherspoon and aired on Lifetime. Keaton additionally directed Arquette in a 1990 episode of CBS Schoolbreak Particular titled “The Woman With the Loopy Brother,” per Folks.
“She was simply so effervescent and so alive,” Arquette continued to explain her fellow Oscar winner, who died at age 79 on Saturday, October 11, noting that Keaton “had no pretenses” and had “such an unimaginable imaginative and prescient for magnificence and design and images and artwork.”
The Boyhood actress went on to reward Keaton's exceptional of physique of labor, together with her Oscar-winning position in Annie Corridor.
“What an actress. In case you watch Reds or On the lookout for Mr. Goodbar, you understand?” Arquette mentioned. “All of the comedies, but in addition after all Annie Corridor and The Godfather, I imply her performing is unimaginable.”
“I used to ditch college so I may see Reds,” she added.
Additionally on Monday, Keaton's One thing's Gotta Give costar Keanu Reeves and director Nancy Meyers remembered the star two days after her demise.
“She was very good to me. Beneficiant, beneficiant artist and a really particular, distinctive particular person,” Reeves, 61, advised E! Information.
Longtime collaborator Meyers, 75, shared a prolonged tribute to her buddy on Instagram.
“These previous 48 hours haven't been straightforward,” wrote the director. “Seeing your whole tributes to Diane has been a consolation. As a film lover, I'm with you all — we've misplaced a large. A superb actress who again and again laid herself naked to inform our tales. As a girl, I misplaced a buddy of just about 40 years — at instances over these years, she felt like a sister as a result of we shared so many really memorable experiences.”
“As a filmmaker, I've misplaced a reference to an actress that one can solely dream of,” she went on. “All of us seek for that somebody who actually will get us, proper? Properly, with Diane, I imagine we mutually had that. I at all times felt she actually received me, so writing for her made me higher as a result of I felt so safe in her palms. I knew how weak she may very well be. And I knew how hilarious she may very well be, not solely with dialogue (which she mentioned phrase for phrase as written however managed to at all times make it sound improvised) however she may very well be humorous sitting at a dinner desk or simply strolling right into a room.”
Like Arquette, Meyers praised Keaton's work in Annie Corridor (1979), for which Keaton gained the Oscar for Finest Actress, and Reds (1981), directed by Warren Beatty.
“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 along with her know what I do know… she made every part higher. Each arrange, day-after-day, in each film, I watched her give it her all,” Meyers mentioned.
“She was fearless, she was like no one ever, she was born to be a film star, her chuckle may make your day and for me, realizing her and dealing along with her modified my life. Thanks, Di. I'll miss you ceaselessly,” the director concluded her put up.
 
 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 