He fell in love with her immediately but it took him a week to talk to her. Woody Allen published this Monday a vibrant tribute to his favorite actress and ex-partner Diane Keaton, whose death was announced on Saturday.
“The planet has never known and will probably know again a face and a laugh that thus illuminated the spaces it crossed,” wrote the director, who shared his life for several years, in a column on The Free Press site.
True to his taste for self-deprecation, he recounts his torments in front of the young blonde in her extravagant clothes.
while getting up Fall girls and shut up (1972), explains that “during the first week of rehearsal, we did not speak to each other even once. (…) With two shy people, things can become quite boring.”
Then came a brief meal “at a restaurant on Eighth Avenue. (…). She was so charming, so beautiful, so magical that I questioned my sanity. I said to myself: could I fall in love so quickly?”
Later, they moved in together. “I saw the world through his eyes,” recalls the 89-year-old director, who even claims to have subsequently taken into account only his tastes, abandoning the media and other professionals.
“She looked Take the sorrel and get out. and said that the film was very funny and very original. His words. His success proved him right and I never doubted his judgment again,” he wrote.
“I ended up only worrying about their evaluations,” he adds. “If she liked it, she considered the film an artistic success. If she was less enthusiastic, I tried to use her criticism to edit it differently and achieve something she found better.”
Together they will appear in eight films, including manhattan, Interiors AND Mysterious murder in Manhattan.
“Woody Allen is my friend and I still believe him”
The actress has provided unwavering support to the New York director until the end, to whom almost the entire profession has turned its back in the United States. Amid the #MeToo movement in January 2018, he tweeted: “Woody Allen is my friend and I still believe him.”
The director once again faced accusations of sexual assault, launched in 1992 by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow. Charges against him were dropped after two separate investigations.
Woody Allen describes Diane Keaton’s obsessive relationship with food in his hagiography.
“I’d gobble down steak, hash browns, marble cheesecake and coffee. Then we’d come home and… I’d make waffles or stuff a huge taco with pork. I’d stand there, amazed.”
And he added: “It was only years later, when he wrote his memoirs, that he described his eating disorder. But (…) I had never seen anyone eat that way outside of a documentary about whales.”
In a confession in the form of eternal regret, he evokes their separation. “Why we separated, perhaps only God and Freud could understand.” And he concludes, full of emotion: “A few days ago, Diane Keaton was part of the world. Today she is no longer part of the world. Therefore, it is a more boring world.”
Source: BFM TV
