Richard Gere is mourning the death of Diane Keaton .

Gere co-starred with the late Oscar winner, who died of pneumonia at the age of 79, early in his career in 1977’s “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”

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“It was the second film I made,” he said Oct. 16 on TODAY.

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Gere and Keaton would team up again more than four decades later in 2023’s “Maybe I Do.”

“Obviously, I think about her now. We made a film a few years ago, too. I hadn’t seen her in a long time,” he said.

Gere went on to say he and Keaton leaned on each other while making “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”

“That was a difficult film, this very kind of raw, sexual film. And she’s pretty shy and skittish. And I was,

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