{"id":217661,"date":"2025-10-16T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:09:13","slug":"elliott-gould-remembers-diane-keaton-we-snuck-into-a-bush-and-she-said-this-is-called-making-out-diane-keaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217661\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Gould remembers Diane Keaton \u2013 \u2018We snuck into a bush and she said: \u2018This is called making out\u2019\u2019 | Diane Keaton"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was shocked when I heard about Diane\u2019s passing. I loved her. There was nobody like her. Bright, talented, generous, and very smart and witty. She had more than just a sense of humour; she was hysterical. Whatever it was, she just had it.<\/p>\n

The first time I saw her was in a deodorant commercial where she bit somebody\u2019s ear<\/a>. Everything about her was original. I\u2019d be interested in anything she was involved in because she was so keen and so smart and so witty. And anybody who got to work with her was in for a treat \u2013 as I later found.<\/p>\n

Diane Keaton and Elliott Gould in The Lemon Sisters. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

We first met when she came in to audition for a picture that I was preparing called A Glimpse of Tiger<\/a>. She didn\u2019t get the part, and I wound up not doing the picture, but I remember even back then how unique she seemed, as well as very down to earth and extremely normal.<\/p>\n

I then did three pictures with her \u2013 I Will, I Will \u2026 For Now; Harry and Walter Go to New York and The Lemon Sisters \u2013 and we became friends. She sang and danced in that final one and was fabulous at both. She was perfect to work with: always prepared, always present.<\/p>\n

Keaton and Gould in I Will, I Will \u2026 For Now. Photograph: Brut Productions\/Allstar<\/p>\n

She was beautiful, she was sexy, and she was nice! What more can you ask for? She became a legitimate superstar class American artist, yet she stayed exactly the same person regardless of her fame.<\/p>\n

She was such a complete professional. Even when the pictures didn\u2019t all quite work, she always worked. I\u2019d always remember when we were making our first picture together, in a little town called Ojai in California. After dinner, we snuck away into the bush together and she said to me: \u201cThis is called making out.\u201d She was brilliantly talented and funny, but she was also plain-speaking and really nice.<\/p>\n

James Caan, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton in Harry and Walter Go to New York. Photograph: THA\/Alamy<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a beautiful thing in a way, that all of us come and all of us must go. But I didn\u2019t expect Diane to go, even though I knew she wasn\u2019t well. I\u2019m so happy to have known her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was shocked when I heard about Diane\u2019s passing. I loved her. There was nobody like her. Bright,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-217661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}