Jane Fonda Remembers the ‘Limitlessly Creative’ Diane Keaton

Shortly after the news of Diane Keaton’s death broke, tributes from across Hollywood came pouring in, including from her former co-stars. Jane Fonda, Keaton’s Book Club co-star, shared a statement with Vulture. Fonda wrote, “It’s hard to believe…or accept…that Diane has passed. She was always a spark of life and light, constantly giggling at her own foibles, being limitlessly creative…in her acting, her wardrobe, her books, her friends, her homes, her library. Unique is what she was. And, though she didn’t know it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a fine actress!” Bette Midler, who starred alongside Keaton in The First Wives Club, shared a photo of Keaton on Instagram, remembering her “brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary” friend. “I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star,” Midler wrote on October 11. Director Paul Feig remembered Keaton in a statement on X: “I was so honored to call Diane Keaton a friend. She was an amazingly kind and creative person who also just happened to be a Hollywood legend. She has been taken from us far too soon. We will miss you, Diane.”

Below, more tributes to the late Diane Keaton.

“It’s hard to believe…or accept…that Diane has passed. She was always a spark of life and light, constantly giggling at her own foibles, being limitlessly creative…in her acting, her wardrobe, her books, her friends, her homes, her library. Unique is what she was. And, though she didn’t know it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a fine actress!”

In an interview shortly before Keaton’s death, Paulson calls her the “most generous, just playful, fun, alive, performer and really taught me the power of being in a scene.”