Diane Keaton’s First Wives Club costar Bette Midler pays tribute after death

Bette Midler He gave her a sincere greeting First Wives Club com. costar Diane Keaton the next Keaton’s death At the age of 79.

“The wonderful, beautiful and extraordinary Diane Keaton has passed away,” Midler, 79, wrote. Via Instagram On Saturday 11 October. “I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me.”

Keaton’s spokesman confirmed the people Earlier on Saturday, the Oscar-winning actress died of undisclosed causes. Her family “requested privacy” as they grieve.

In her Instagram tribute, Midler remembered Keaton as a true original among dozens of legendary Hollywood stars she met throughout her career.

“She was funny, completely original, completely devoid of guile or any of the competitiveness one would expect from such a star,” Midler recalls. “What I saw is who she is… Oh, no, no, no!”

Duo – with Goldie Hawn She played former college best friends who band together against their estranged husbands in the 1996 film adaptation Olivia GoldsmithThe 1992 novel of the same name.

The blockbuster comedy grossed nearly $200 million at the box office, giving the three leading ladies their highest-grossing project of the 1990s to that point.

There has often been talk of a sequel or spinoff of sorts in the following decades – including a 2015 film with Netflix called hex It would have depicted the trio as a former popular singing group reuniting 30 years after a controversial breakup, according to Delivery time. Unfortunately, development of the project never began and was later completely abandoned.

Keaton said A source of pride She would love to work with Hawn and Midler again First Wives Club 2And I was disappointed that it never happened.

“Of course I was interested, but it never happened,” she noted. “And we tried, in a way, girls, but we never got a good script and I don’t know why and now it’s over, right? No one’s going to make us go in a movie together, the three of us. But I love this movie, and I love them.”

Keaton’s death prompted tributes from many of her co-stars and famous friends on Saturday. Kimberly Williams Paisley – Who played Keaton and Steve MartinDaughter appearing on screen in 1991 Father of the bride His 1995 sequel wrote that working with the Hollywood icon was “one of the highlights of my life.”

“You are one of a kind and it was exciting to be in your orbit for a while,” Williams-Paisley, 54, wrote via Twitter. Instagram. “Thank you for your kindness, generosity, talent and, above all, your laugh.”

Elizabeth Perkins Keaton was remembered as a “national treasure” in her own right Instagram Saturday tribute.

“Mrs. Keaton, you were a national treasure, with style, grace, intelligence, and tremendous talent. Thank you for being my modern-day hero and showing a young actress what it means to be bold, completely self-deprecating yet confident, and always open, questioning, and courageous,” Perkins wrote. “Complex, eccentric and so talented, she had it… Wow, did she set the bar. She will always be my Annie Hall. God, that’s profound.”

Keaton is survived by two children, Dexter and Duke She was baptized in her fifties. the Annie Hall The actress has never been married but has had high-profile relationships with Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty All her life.