Dermot Mulroney breaks his silence on ‘Family Stone’ co-star Diane Keaton’s death #shorts

Dermot Mulroney breaks his silence on ‘Family Stone’ co-star Diane Keaton’s death #shorts

We just lost the great Diane Keian. Um, what was it like when you heard the news about that? Oh, well, it sure it broke us all up. I’d um had lunch with Tom Bazooka, the director of Family Stone the week before. So, we spoke so much about Diane. Um, and I was just there then I had no e even then didn’t know that she was going to go so soon. So she had just been on my lips right right then that just a few days before. So it really impacted me and I was in touch with him and a few other people around that film. Um yeah I it I’ll mention this too. The way the world works now but the Academy of all of her roles of all of her performances the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science is their Instagram for what it’s worth. put the scene up that day of of uh Everett Stone and she in that scene where I learned that she’s ill again. So that actually was really devastating to see that scene on that day. Can you imagine the combination of having worked that closely with her to perform that scene as best to best as I ever could? Yeah. I mean, she clearly seemed like she was the glue and the leader of that cast, too. Um, do you have, you know, how would you remember her? Is there a fondest memory from set? Uh, well, gosh, that is actually pretty hard. The um Diane went through a warming up process, so it’d be like a I don’t I’m kind of playing a character like that on Chicago Fire where at first the new chief, right? Yeah. First people aren’t sure how strict they’re going to be or what the vibe is. Seems pretty serious. About halfway through the movie, of course, she was goofing around. We We brought her down to our level is what I mean to say. Uh, and so by the time we got to the epic iconic foot in the mouth of the century scene at the dining room table, we were all just in awe of each other. We knew that it was such a great group, perfect for these roles. By that time, we’d absorbed into those parts. We touched on perfect casting before. That would be one that I’d throw in the in the short list for me where that actually happened. Every person in that was perfectly cast and by then she was the leader that we embraced rather than we wondered how it was going to go. So we would have um Yeah. Yeah. She could have fed us crumbs and yet she gave it her all and we really all got really close. Um um so it was quite an incredible process. The filming of Family Stone was its own had its own lifespan in that way. So many things happened um during it. Yeah. Just to see that insane ensemble, especially the scene too where you had some emotional scenes with her, but the one where she opens up the gift the Sarah Jessica Parker’s character gave everyone the photo like that is just such a moment to see that huge cast like that ensemble all together. one room for that scene. Definitely stays with audiences. I think she provided that photo. Gosh, I wish I knew the exact story. Obviously, they either added the pregnancy. I think the photo is her young mother pregnant. Um, yeah, you’d have to ask Tom, but I know Diane chose that photo of her to be used in that fashion. And then look how uh how how how deep that is now. And just lastly on the film um I know obviously we know what happens to her character but it became such a beloved holiday film. Um and like more of a recent holiday film compared to you know some of the classics from decades ago. Did that surprise everyone at some point? And did was there ever ever any talks with the director for a sequel at all? Um I will answer in brief. Um yes and yes. Yes. It came as a surprise that that it became a perennial annual mustwatch. Mhm. Couple of years ago, New York Times, two Christmas ago, New York Times did a lengthy article about how people kept putting them through why people were drawn to such a wrenching movie and watched it every year to make themselves cry and what we were as a culture that was going through that process on a routine basis every year. So, that’s to say it’s such a powerful movie and means so much to people, families. Mhm. Um and the other question is is there any discussion about u making a followup? Yes. Okay. Still is. You would that that’ll be the answer that I leave as brief. It’s very hard for me to answer things with in short. So I’m try and stick with this.

Dermot Mulroney is remembering the late Diane Keaton, who played his on-screen mom in 2005’s “The Family Stone.”

Keaton died in Los Angeles on Oct. 11 at the age of 79. Her cause of death was later revealed to be pneumonia.

“It broke us all up,” Mulroney, 62, exclusively told The Post while promoting his new Western “Long Shadows.”

Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/entertainment/dermot-mulroney-on-death-of-family-stone-star-diane-keaton/

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