Sarah Paulson was overwhelmed with emotion remembering her “dear friend” Diane Keaton.
Paulson, 50, joined Kim Kardashian and other stars of their new Hulu legal drama, Everything is fairat its world premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday, October 16, and made brief comments about Keaton’s death on the red carpet.
“I was incredibly close to her and this is a deeply sad time for me,” Paulson said. The Hollywood Reporter. “I can’t speak about it in any articulate way except to say that for all you knew and loved about her as a performer, she was even more so as a friend.”
In an interview with Access HollywoodPaulson cried when asked about his late friend and The other sister costar.
“She was a dear friend of mine. Um, so it’s not something I can talk about yet,” Paulson responded when asked about Keaton’s lasting legacy.
“I can’t talk about it,” she reiterated. “All I can say, and I said it tonight, and what’s important for me to communicate is that whatever you thought she was as a performer, she was even more spectacular as a human being.”
Paulson’s voice then cracked as she said she was “the luckiest person in the world to have had her in my life the way I had her.”
Paulson and Keaton formed a close bond while playing together in The other sisterreleased in 1999, and remained friends for decades.
THE American Horror Story the actress praised her longtime friend last month in an interview with In style which resurfaced after Keaton’s death.
“She played my mother in a movie that was my first kind of studio movie,” Paulson said. “It was a really exciting experience and she was the most generous performer, just upbeat and fun and lively and she really taught me the power of rhythms in a scene. And I was so scared, and she really took me under her wing and we’ve become really good friends ever since. She’s also a filmmaker. She’s a fashion icon. She’s an absolute iconoclast. And I feel very lucky to call her a dear friend.”
Keaton died at age 79 on Saturday, October 11, from pneumonia.
Diane Keaton lived her life to the fullest until her death. On October 11, news broke that the actress had died in California at the age of 79. A spokesperson for his family confirmed his death to People and added that Keaton’s loved ones had “asked for privacy.” While the Oscar-winning actress has had a remarkable career […]
“The Keaton family is so grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received over the past few days from their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11,” the Oscar winner’s family said in a statement to People on Wednesday October 15. “She loved her animals and she strongly supported the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute.”
A death certificate obtained by People reported that Keaton’s cause of death was primary bacterial pneumonia. The document states that the actress was cremated on Tuesday, October 14.
