Director Nancy Meyers has paid tribute to her longtime friend and frequent collaborator Diane Keaton , the Oscar-winning star who died on Saturday at age 79. Meyers described Keaton as “fearless” and “born to be a movie star.”
“These past 48 hours have not been easy. Seeing all of your tributes to Diane has been a comfort. As a movie lover, I’m with you all – we have lost a giant. A brilliant actress who time and again laid herself bare to tell our stories,” Meyers wrote on Instagram. “As a woman, I lost a friend of almost 40 years – at times over those years, she felt like a sister because we shared so many truly memorable experiences. As a filmmaker, I’ve lost a connection with an actress that one can only dream of.”
Meyers and Keaton first worked together in 1987 on “Baby Boom” an