{"id":219378,"date":"2025-10-12T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219378\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:49:08","slug":"meryl-streeps-beautiful-speech-about-diane-keaton-goes-viral-after-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219378\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep\u2019s \u2018beautiful\u2019 speech about Diane Keaton goes viral after her death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meryl Streep<\/a>\u2019s heartwarming speech about Diane Keaton<\/a> has gone viral in the wake of the Annie Hall star\u2019s death<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning actor<\/a>, whose wit, warmth and individuality made her one of Hollywood\u2019s most cherished figures, died on Saturday (12 October) in California. She was 79 years old. <\/p>\n

Follow along with live updates concerning Keaton here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Tributes have poured in from her Hollywood peers, honouring Keaton\u2019s life and career on screen. Leonardo DiCaprio, Bette Midler, Robert DeNiro, and Reese Witherspoon are among those to share messages of love for the actor. <\/p>\n

Fans have likewise flooded the internet with their favourite moments from Keaton\u2019s oeuvre, including scenes from Annie Hall (1977), Something\u2019s Gotta Give (2003), and First Wives Club (1996). <\/p>\n

One video in particular has gone viral on social media. It which shows Streep giving a speech honouring Keaton at her 45th American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Ceremony in 2017. <\/p>\n

Streep \u2013 who played the sister of Keaton\u2019s character in the 1996 film Marvin\u2019s Room \u2013 begins her speech by recalling her own childhood trips to the museum where she and her siblings would rush upstairs to see a giant model of a \u201ctransparent\u201d woman made of lucite. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou could see her guts and her heart and her brain and she was breathtaking,\u201d says Streep, going on to compare the figure to her co-star and friend Keaton who is seen sitting in the crowd next to Steve Martin, grinning from ear to ear. <\/p>\n

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Nodding to the actor\u2019s penchant for layering her clothes, Streep says: \u201cDiane Keaton, arguably the most covered up person in the history of clothes, is also a transparent woman. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nobody who stands more exposed, more undefended, and just willing to show herself inside and out than Diane.\u201d <\/p>\n

She continues: \u201cI fell for her pretty much the same time everybody did with Annie Hall because she had the stream of consciousness of a hummingbird. And she\u2019s just so hard to capture, she\u2019s in flight. When she lights down, she stops your heart. She\u2019s given us all so much happiness.\u201d <\/p>\n

Streep goes on to thank Keaton\u2019s mother for bringing her into the world, adding: \u201cI can\u2019t imagine the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, or 2000s without you. Love you, Diane. So does everybody.\u201d <\/p>\n

The moment has been shared thousands of times on social media platforms with fans commenting on how happy Keaton looks, and how heartwarming Streep\u2019s speech is. <\/p>\n

Speaking to The Guardian after Keaton\u2019s death, Streep called the actor \u201cour American treasure: indelible singular girl and brilliant artist. Crushing news that she is gone, but her smile and her style and antic spirit will live on film and in our hearts forever\u201d. <\/p>\n

Keaton\u2019s death came as a shock given that while she had not made any public appearances for some time, there were no reports of illness. A cause of death is yet to be disclosed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-219378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}