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 Diane Keaton
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime
While she has undoubtedly proven herself an accomplished actress of tremendous range throughout her long career, there isn’t a more venerated and beloved staple of the traditional Hollywood modern romantic comedy than Diane Keaton. Keaton first made her mark in the romantic comedy genre in many of famed director Woody Allen’s early successes, including his 1977 classic Annie Hall, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar. Since the previous decade, she has spent much of her career in the genre that started her off with numerous successes, such as the Father Of The Bride movies, The First Wives’ Club, and Something’s Gotta Give. Her latest romantic comedy outing, Because I Said So, has her starring opposite Mandy Moore as an overbearing mother who tries to protect her daughter from ending up with the wrong man. The opportunity to do romantic comedy again was one Diane could not resist the urge to pass up. “I said yes right away,” gushed Keaton, “I thought it’d be fun.” When asked about how she felt about the idea of playing such a domineering mother character in the movie, Diane says it was a fun character to undertake, although she says she’s had no similar experiences like that personally. “I never imagined in my life that this would be something that I would be playing,” she claims, “My mother wasn’t like that at all, but I do remember some friends having meddling mothers and thinking, ‘God, how weird is that?!’ So now I’ve played one and it was fun because she was more wacky.” She adds that playing the role made her realize the immense gaps that can potentially emerge in the dialogue of parents and children trying to understand one another, even with Diane herself as a mother of two adopted children. “When I was playing it, I thought, ‘I’m sure I’m not like this as a mother,’” she recollects, “But then, the more you think about it, the more you realize that it’s really hard for you to look at yourself and see who you are to your daughter or from your daughter’s point of view or from your son’s point of view from that matter. And then, I started to think, maybe I am, but just in a different way.” Keaton felt that the experience of playing an overprotective mother gave much added dimension to things she’s personally learned as a parent herself. “I think being a parent is really a humbling experience if you’re willing to see who you really are in that relationship,” she explains, “You know, to really be honest about your own performance and I don’t think any of us come out of it like, ‘Eh, fabulous.’ I think we try, but, I think, hey, it’s hard to guide a person’s life and somehow, the concern and the worry…I worry all the time about my kids. I’m consumed by them. And so, when you do that, you have the tendency to want ... |
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