The veteran actress Diane Keaton, who has nearly 60 years of acting experience, is a master of many aspects of the silver screen.
Off camera, though, the Hollywood “it girl” was a “master at hiding,” keeping dark secrets from her younger self that she now acknowledges as “creepy.”
The LA-born Diane Keaton, 77, is one of Hollywood’s most accomplished leading ladies and an icon with a nearly six-decade-long career.
He made his stage debut in 1968 as an extra in the lead role of the counterculture musical Hair, in which Woody Allen starred for the first time. He later cast her as his love interest in the Broadway production of Play Again, Sam (1969). The then 23-year-old received her first and only Tony Award nomination for the role of Linda Christie, a role she later reprized in the 1972 film adaptation of the same name.
Although she worked on several films over the next two decades, her real-life relationship with Woody Allen lasted only a few years, reflecting the transitional romance her character enjoyed with Allen. The award-winning actor made several cameo appearances in films, TV shows and commercials before landing the lead role in The Godfather.
An unprecedented commercial and critical success, the Oscar-winning film greatly enhanced Keaton’s reputation as an actor as the lover of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and his wife.
She returned to The Godfather Part II in 1974, playing the estranged wife of the criminal empire’s boss opposite Al Pacino, with whom she had an on-and-off romance.
I was crazy for him. Before she and Pacino started dating, Keaton confessed to having a crush on the actor. “Charming, hilarious, and a nonstop talker,” Keaton told People. He had a part of himself that resembled a lost orphan or a crazy idiot genius. And oh, lovely!”
She and Allen reunited in Annie Hall (1977), bringing her an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
Warren Beatty, Keaton’s co-star, and director in several successful films like Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Manhattan, and 1981’s Reds, was the subject of a passionate love affair between the two. Warren made his film debut in 1961’s Splendor in the Grass. Come on! He was truly, to die for. The dream. Bonnie and Clyde, perhaps? Come on,” she exclaimed in a Variety interview.
Not only was he a great movie star, incredibly attractive, seductive, sexy, charming and enigmatic, but he was also a great producer and director. Or rather, it still is. Everything is special.
As she got older, the Baby Boom actress expanded her creativity. She then appeared as a mother opposite Steve Martin in Father of the Bride in 1991, first appeared with Alan in the After Annie Hall series, Manhattan Murders, and in 2000 appeared as the divorced wife of a mob boss in The Godfather Part . III. I did. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the comedy. Something has to give in 2003. It was her first major box office hit since 1996’s The First Wives Club, which starred Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn.
Her co-stars gushed about her performances since she is a consummate professional. In the movie, Something’s Gotta Give, Keaton and Jack Nicholson co-starred. Jack Nicholson said of Keaton, “She’s nothing if not fascinating, and working with her, she’s very unpredictable, which I like.” She is highly organized in all of this. She approaches a screenplay somewhat like a play in that, unlike other performers I’ve seen, she memorizes the full script before filming begins.
Keaton was particularly fond of Keanu Reeves, her much younger co-star, in contrast to her character in the movie, who falls in love with her daughter’s much older boyfriend (Nicholson).
Keaton told the Sydney Morning Herald that her on-screen kisses with Reeves—20 years her junior—were “quite embarrassing ” for Keanu, too. It is related to the passage of time. While kissing him, you automatically think, “Uh, probably not! ” “And Keanu was saying, ‘Not!’,” the endearing actor said. He tried to be courteous. He is stunningly gorgeous, though. A guilty pleasure, that. Very much a guilty pleasure.
Either actor has not substantiated rumors of their off-screen romance.
Keaton is a champion of natural aging and is proud of her silvery mane and appearance as a woman in her late 70s. She leads with a great deal of humility.
“I tell myself that my body is mine to do with as I like. Exactly why not? I’m still wearing wide-belted plaid coats, horn-rimmed glasses, and turtlenecks in the summer; I may be a caricature of myself. Then what? She added in a Daily Beast interview that nobody saves for me is concerned. “I don’t see anything wrong with Botox, fillers, or facelifts. Just the hidden scars from combat are removed. I kind of plan to wear mine.
Even though she is a well-respected actor, playwright, director, and singer in Hollywood, she is not exempt from unwarranted criticism from the general public.
After she attended the Golden Globes in 2014, an online user targeted her with the following Tweet: “Wow. Diane Keaton gained weight.
Another critic recently stated, “Well, Diane Keaton isn’t nice, she’s ugly inside and out!” without apparent cause.
It’s important to realize that the stunning actress with an incredibly slender frame is recovering from her destructive relationship with food.
During an appearance on the Dr. Oz Show, Keaton stated, “It was awful. Of course, that was the lowest period in my life. I was an obese individual who had managed to deceive myself or herself into believing that I wasn’t fat.”
“In light of this, after you’ve been living a lie for four years…” She said, “All I did was feed my hunger, so I am an addict,” as she described her struggle with bulimia. “It is real. I’m an addict recovering, and I always will be. I tend to become addicted.”
He was teased in the hair department for losing 10 pounds, which immediately made him distrustful. Players who agree to strip after Act 1 will receive an additional $50 for production costs. Keaton protested.
I ate a lot to relieve stress. And he vomited all that he ate and drank.
She consumed 20,000 calories per supper, which included “a bucket of fried chicken, several orders of fries with blue cheese and ketchup, a couple of TV dinners, a quart of soda, pounds of candy, a whole cake, and three banana cream pies.”
She visited a therapist five times per week for a year after realizing she had a problem treating her binge eating disorder.
About 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, Keaton joked about her hidden eating disorder while hanging out with her multi-talented friend alongside Lifetime Achievement Award winner Woody Allen.
Allen jokingly said, “I didn’t know a lot of stuff until I read her novels. “I had no idea she was bulimic… I was going to take her to these fancy restaurants. $400 for a meal. I could have taken her to Pizza Hut if I had known she was throwing them up.
Even though the star-studded audience laughed, Keaton’s bulimia was a very serious issue to her.
Keaton insisted that she didn’t reduce her weight to satisfy the producers of Hair, saying instead that she kept the weight off and “became a master at hiding.” How can you ensure no one finds out if you hide evidence? You lead a pretty peculiar existence. You are acting falsely.
“People were nice enough, but I felt like an outsider,” she continues. “I had a problem, and it was spooky. You lose a lot of time to bulimia each day.
The star of rom-com royalty, who has never been married, loves being a mother. Duke Keaton, 23, and Dexter Keaton White, 27, are Keaton’s children, both of whom she adopted while in her fifties.
“I didn’t believe I would ever be ready to be a mother. Being a mother wasn’t a desire I couldn’t resist; I had been considering it for a long time. I dove right in,” she remarked.
