Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooks recalls telling Keaton, " 'Look, there's going to be some tricky lighting in this movie, and I've got to start thinking about how to photograph your body. And, well, Diane, I'm going to have to see what you look like.' She just stared at me. She was shocked. And then, after a few moments, she said, 'O.K., Brooks...
...Keaton worried, talked with her parents, talked with her analyst. (She has seen a psychiatrist several days a week, most weeks, for five years. She began on the advice of Allen, who has been in analysis, he says, for 20 years.) She decided to go ahead...
...Keaton was on the set for 76 days, playing in every scene of the film except one. Halfway through she cracked a rib when Actor Richard Gere, who plays a stud named Tony, threw her to the floor. "It was my fault," she said. "I knew how to take the fall, but I blew it. Besides, it's fun to do that wild, physical stuff. And it's nice to get really angry and scream, and then walk away from the responsibility for all that when the shooting is over...
...Keaton regularly does acting exercises, one of which involves finding a way to key her concentration so that she feels completely alone. If she has kept herself fit with the exercises, she finds she can program and hold an emotion through the endless technical annoyances of film making. Most of the time this worked in Goodbar, but not always. Once, Brooks remembers, he wanted a look of pleasurable anticipation to cross her face as she came out of a bathroom and approached a man who lay in bed. Keaton tried it a couple of times, but came up empty...
Brooks told her to go back and try it again. Then he pulled off his shirt, and as Keaton opened the bathroom door, was busy removing his pants. She came apart in shrieks of laughter. Pulling herself together, she did the scene again, says Brooks, and "it was perfect. When she opened that door, she really didn't know what she was going...