Reese Witherspoon paid tribute to her late co-worker Diane Keaton and shared a rare glimpse into what their relationship was really like.
“She just really took a chance on me,” Witherspoon, 49, told The Times of London about Keaton in an interview published on Saturday, October 25. “You never forget those people who give you your first job opportunities.”
Early on in Witherspoon's career, she was cast as Ellie Perkins in the 1991 TV movie Wildflower, which Keaton directed. The movie followed an abused, partially-deaf girl who re-enters society with the help of two resourceful children.
“She was just truly original through it all,” Witherspoon recalled of working with Keaton, adding that the Something's Gotta Give actress was like “auntie to me” during the production process.
Keaton died at the age of 79 on October 11 following a battle with bacterial pneumonia. Shortly after her shocking death was revealed, Witherspoon expressed her condolences during her Shine Away panel event in Los Angeles that ran from October 11 to October 12.
“I just wanted to talk to you for one second because, and I’m gonna try to get through this without tearing up, but I don’t know if you guys heard that Diane Keaton passed,” Witherspoon told the crowd during the event. “I had to take a second to just really think about it because when I was 15 years old. Diane was really important — she was one of my first mentors in this business.”
She continued, “I was 15 years old and I was from Nashville, Tennessee, and I didn’t know anybody and I came on, it was my second, maybe my third movie audition ever, and I auditioned for her and she looked at me after … and she goes, who are you?”
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Witherspoon then recalled introducing herself to Keaton as, “I’m Reese Witherspoon. I’m from Nashville, Tennessee.”
“She said, ‘Are you making that up? That accent that you’re doing?’” Witherspoon recalled Keaton asking her during their first interaction. “Well, you’re hired today, tomorrow [and] the next day. I don’t know who you are, but I’m excited to have you.”
Witherspoon was just one of the many celebrities to share anecdotes about Keaton after her death. Director and screenwriter Nancy Meyers, who worked with Keaton on several projects, took to Instagram on October 13 to share a personal tribute.
“These past 48 hours have not been easy,” Meyers, 75, began in the caption. “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.”
After she praised Keaton's career, Meyers said her death meant the loss of “a friend of almost 40 years.”
“At times over those years, she felt like a sister because we shared so many truly memorable experiences,” Meyers continued. “As a filmmaker, I’ve lost a connection with an actress that one can only dream of.”
The Parent Trap director wrote in part, “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. 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.”
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