This interview originally ran on December 14, 2020. We’re republishing it today in light of Diane Keaton’s death at the age of 79.

In the process of conducting research for Vulture’s Nancy Meyers Week , I had the distinct honor of hopping on the phone with everyone from Cameron Diaz to Steve Martin to Kieran Culkin and forcing them to reach back into the depths of their memories to share stories about their contributions to Meyers’s filmography. Although all of these conversations were memorable, Diane Keaton’s interview was so unbelievably kooky and charming and delightful — at one point, she asked me if I could be fired for asking her something; at another, she lectured me in sort of poetic verse about imagined pandemic behavioral infractions — we decided to publish the full int

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