Nancy Meyers’ Touching Tribute To The “Fearless” Diane Keaton Is Gonna Make You Cry

Filmmaker Nancy Meyers shared a heartbreaking post on social media remembering her frequent collaborator and friend of many years, the late Diane Keaton.

Meyers did not hold back in memorializing the Oscar-winning actress. “These past 48 hours have not been easy,” she wrote on Instagram. “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.”

Meyers added, “At times over those years, she felt like a sister because we shared so many truly memorable experiences.”

Keaton passed away Oct. 11 at the age of 79 from unknown causes after a decades-long career in film that included several collaborations with Meyers including Something’s Gotta Give, Father of the Bride and its sequel, and Baby Boom.

Meyers wrote that she felt she and Keaton truly understood each other, making collaboration easy.

“As a filmmaker, I’ve lost a connection with an actress that one can only dream of,” Meyers wrote. “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).”

Meyers said she watched Keaton “give it her all” in every project they did together, specifically pointing to Something’s Gotta Give, in which Keaton stars as a single divorcée who finds love in her daughter’s much older, womanizing boyfriend (played by Jack Nicholson).

“When I needed her to cry in scene after scene in Something’s Gotta Give she went at it hard and then somehow made it funny. And I remember she would sometimes spin in a kind of goofy circle before a take to purposely get herself off balance or whatever she needed to shed so she could be in the moment,” Meyers continued.

She concluded her message with a touching farewell that many fans of the late actress can relate to. “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,” Meyers wrote. “Thank you Di. I’ll miss you forever.”

With several hits under her belt including Annie Hall, Reds, and The Family Stone, Keaton had continued acting until her final days, with her last role being in the 2024 comedy Summer Camp.

The late actress reportedly had at least three movies in pre-production when she passed away.