With almost 60 years of professional acting experience, veteran actress Diane Keaton is a master of many aspects of the movie industry.
Off camera, however, the “it girl” in Hollywood was a “master at hiding,” keeping sinister secrets from her younger self that she now considers to be “creepy.”. ”.
An icon with a nearly six-decade career, Diane Keaton, 77, is a LA native and one of Hollywood’s most accomplished leading ladies.
In the counterculture musical Hair, where she made her stage debut in 1968 as a main role understudy, Woody Allen got his first impression of her. She was subsequently cast as his love interest in the 1969 Broadway production of Play it Again, Sam.
For the part of Linda Christie, which she later reprised in the 1972 film adaptation of the same name, the then 23-year-old received her first and only Tony nomination.
Her real-life relationship with Woody Allen only lasted a few years, mirroring the fleeting stage romance her character enjoyed with Allen, even though they worked together on numerous films over the next two decades.
Before getting her big break in The Godfather, the award-winning actor made a few unremarkable cameos in films, TV shows, and commercials.
Keaton played the girlfriend and ultimately the wife of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in the Academy Award–winning film with unprecedented box office and critical success, greatly enhancing her acting career.
In 1974, she returned to The Godfather Part II and starred opposite Al Pacino as the boss’s estranged wife. She and Pacino had an on-and-off relationship.
For him, I went completely crazy. Keaton admitted to having a crush on Pacino before she and the actor started dating. Keaton described her as “charming, hilarious, and a nonstop talker” to People. He possessed a part of himself that resembled a wandering orphan or a genius idiot. Also, how lovely!”.
She and Allen collaborated once more on Annie Hall (1977), which earned her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.
A passionate love affair existed between Keaton and Warren Beatty, who was the co-star and director of several popular movies with Keaton, including Manhattan, Looking for Mr. Doolittle, and Reds from 1981. In 1961’s Splendor in the Grass, Warren made his film debut. Come on, the man was truly amazing. a dream. Come on, maybe it’s Bonnie and Clyde,” she exclaimed in a Variety interview.
He was not only a brilliant movie star, but also a stunningly attractive, seductive, sexy, alluring, and mysterious man. He was also a fantastic producer and director. Actually, he still is, to be more precise. All of this is extremely unusual.
The Baby Boomer actress grew more prolific as she got older. She then co-starred with Steve Martin in Father of the Bride as the mother in 1991, made her first appearance with Allen in Manhattan Murder Mystery since Annie Hall, and played the divorced wife of the mafia boss in The Godfather Part III in 2000.
For her part in the comedy, she was nominated for an Academy Award.
2003: Something Has to Give.
Since 1996’s First Wives Club, which starred Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn, it was her first significant box office triumph.
Her co-stars were raving about her performances because she is a true professional. Keaton and Jack Nicholson both acted alongside each other in the film Something’s Gotta Give. She’s nothing if not fascinating, and working with her, she’s very unpredictable, which I like, Jack Nicholson said of Keaton. She has everything in this very well planned out. She approaches a screenplay somewhat like a play in that, in contrast to other performers I’ve seen, she memorizes the entire script prior to filming.
In contrast to her character in the film, who falls in love with her daughter’s much older boyfriend (Nicholson), Keaton was particularly fond of Keanu Reeves, her much younger co-star.
Keaton admitted to the Sydney Morning Herald that Keanu found her on-screen kisses with Reeves, who is 20 years younger than she is, to be “quite embarrassing.”. It has to do with how time moves on. “And Keanu was saying, ‘Not!'” the endearing actor said. “While kissing him, you automatically think, ‘Uh, probably not!'”. He attempted to be polite. However, he is breathtakingly attractive.
That’s a bad habit.
Definitely a guilty pleasure.
Neither actor has confirmed rumors of their extramarital relationship.
Keaton is a proponent of natural aging and is proud of her silvery mane and appearance as a woman in her late 70s. She takes her position as leader very seriously.
“I tell myself that my body belongs to me to use however I please. I’m still wearing wide-belted plaid coats, horn-rimmed glasses, and turtlenecks in the summer; I might as well be a caricature of myself. She went on to say in an interview with the Daily Beast that nobody saves for me is worried. “Botox, fillers, and facelifts don’t seem to be doing anyone any harm. Combat scars are only partially healed. I suppose I’ll wear mine.
Despite having a solid reputation in Hollywood as an actor, playwright, director, and singer, she is still subject to unjustified criticism from the general public.
She was the target of the following Tweet in 2014 after she attended the Golden Globes: “Wow. Diane Keaton put on weight.
Recently, a different critic remarked, “Well, Diane Keaton isn’t nice, she’s ugly inside and out!” with no apparent justification.
It’s critical to understand that the gorgeous actress with the astonishingly thin frame is healing from her unhealthy relationship with food.
Keaton said, “It was terrible,” while appearing on the Dr. Oz Show. Naturally, that was the worst time in my life. I was an obese person who had managed to trick himself or herself into thinking I wasn’t fat. ”.
She said, “In light of this, after you’ve been living a lie for four years… All I did was feed my hunger, so I am an addict,” as she discussed her battle with bulimia. “It’s true. I am and always will be an addict in recovery. I’m prone to addiction. ”.
Her insecurities were immediately sparked when she was teased into taking the lead in Hair in exchange for losing 10 pounds. The players who consented to strip off after Act 1 would also receive $50 from the production. Keaton reacted negatively.
To deal with the stress, she ate a lot. She then vomited to empty her stomach of everything she had eaten.
She ate 20,000 calories at dinner, which included “a bucket of fried chicken, several orders of fries with blue cheese and ketchup, a few TV dinners, a quart of soda, pounds of candy, a whole cake, and three banana cream pies. ”.
Once she realized she was having trouble managing her binge eating disorder, she began seeing a therapist five times per week for a year.
When speaking of her adopted children, Keaton said, “Now it’s (addiction) work oriented or trying to raise my children as best I can, even though they’re…not children anymore. ”.
At the 2017 American Film Awards dinner, where Keaton received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Woody Allen made fun of his multi-talented friend by making jokes about the eating disorder she hid while they were dating.
Allen jokingly remarked, “I didn’t know a lot of stuff until I read her novels. “I was planning to take her to these upscale restaurants, but I had no idea she was bulimic.
Dinner costs $400.
If I’d known she was throwing them up, I could have taken her to Pizza Hut.
Even though the A-list audience laughed, Keaton’s bulimia was a very serious problem to her.
Keaton insisted that she did not lose weight in order to appease the Hair producers; rather, she maintained her weight and “became a master at hiding.”. You live a pretty odd life, how do you make sure no one knows if you hide evidence. Your behavior is deceptive.
Although most people were friendly, she continues, “I felt like an outsider.”. It was a scary problem I had. Every day, bulimia causes you to lose a lot of time.
The never-married star of rom-com royalty enjoys being a mother. Keaton’s children are Dexter Keaton White, 27, and Duke Keaton, 23, who she adopted when she was in her forties.
I never thought I’d be prepared to have children. Being a mother wasn’t a desire I couldn’t resist; I had been thinking about it for a very long time. She remarked, “I just dove in.
She is exceptional, and we appreciate how transparent she is about her eating disorder. We wish Keaton luck as she continues her journey because the mirror can be our harshest critic.
