Sarah Paulson, currently starring in Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair, paid tribute to her good friend Diane Keaton last night, telling Access Hollywood, “She was a very dear friend of mine, so it’s not something I’m able to talk about yet.”
Paulson’s emotional comment came while she was on the red carpet for Murphy’s new series (which also stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor and Glenn Close and debuts on Hulu November 4). Paulson and Keaton first met while shooting the 1999 drama The Other Sister, and remained friends ever since.
“What you thought she was as a performer,” an emotional Paulson said of Keaton, “she was even more spectacular as a human being. And I was the luckiest person in the world to have had her in my life they way that I did.”
Keaton, the iconic star of Annie Hall, Baby Boom and many, many others, died of pneumonia last Saturday, October 11, at the age of 79. Her death prompted an outpouring of tributes and commemorations from many of her closest friends and peers, including Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Nancy Meyers.
On the red carpet for All’s Fair, Paulson told Deadline’s sister publication The Hollywood Reporter that she was “incredibly close” to Keaton and “this is a profoundly sad time for me.”
She continued, “I can’t talk about it in any way that’s articulate other than to say that for all you knew and loved about her as a performer, she was even more as a friend.”
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