Patricia Arquette is the latest star to share her memories of the late Diane Keaton.
“She was just so immediate, and so alive and so generous,” the Severance actress told People on Monday, October 13.
Keaton directed Arquette, 57, in a 1991 television movie, Wildflower, which costarred Beau Bridges and Reese Witherspoon and aired on Lifetime. Keaton also directed Arquette in a 1990 episode of CBS Schoolbreak Special titled “The Girl With the Crazy Brother,” per People.
“She was just so effervescent and so alive,” Arquette continued to describe her fellow Oscar winner, who died at age 79 on Saturday, October 11, noting that Keaton “had no pretenses” and had “such an incredible vision for beauty and design and photography and art.”
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The Boyhood actress went on to praise Keaton’s remarkable of body of work, including her Oscar-winning role in Annie Hall.
“What an actress. If you watch Reds or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, you know?” Arquette said. “All the comedies, but also of course Annie Hall and The Godfather, I mean her acting is incredible.”
“I used to ditch school so I could see Reds,” she added.
Also on Monday, Keaton’s Something’s Gotta Give costar Keanu Reeves and director Nancy Meyers remembered the star two days after her death.
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“She was very nice to me. Generous, generous artist and a very special, unique person,” Reeves, 61, told E! News.
Longtime collaborator Meyers, 75, shared a lengthy tribute to her friend on Instagram.
“These past 48 hours have not been easy,” wrote the director. “Seeing all of your tributes to Diane has been a comfort. As a movie lover, I’m with you all — we have lost a giant. A brilliant actress who time and again laid herself bare to tell our stories. As a woman, I lost a friend of almost 40 years — at times over those years, she felt like a sister because we shared so many truly memorable experiences.”
“As a filmmaker, I’ve lost a connection with an actress that one can only dream of,” she went on. “We all search for that someone who really gets us, right? Well, with Diane, I believe we mutually had that. I always felt she really got me, so writing for her made me better because I felt so secure in her hands. I knew how vulnerable she could be. And I knew how hilarious she could be, not only with dialogue (which she said word for word as written but managed to always make it sound improvised) but she could be funny sitting at a dinner table or just walking into a room.”
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Like Arquette, Meyers praised Keaton’s work in Annie Hall (1979), for which Keaton won the Oscar for Best Actress, and Reds (1981), directed by Warren Beatty.
“Diane did exactly the same for them because that is what she does. She goes deep. And I know those who have worked with her know what I know… she made everything better. Every set up, every day, in every movie, I watched her give it her all,” Meyers said.
“She was fearless, she was like nobody ever, she was born to be a movie star, her laugh could make your day and for me, knowing her and working with her changed my life. Thank you, Di. I’ll miss you forever,” the director concluded her post.
