Patricia Arquette is praising the late Diane Keaton as a “total artist.”
“They just are never going to have another person on earth like her,” Arquette, 57, exclusively told The Post.
Arquette starred in the 1991 TV movie “Wildflower,” which Keaton directed. Beau Bridges and Reese Witherspoon co-starred.
The Oscar-winning actress spoke fondly of the late star while promoting her new Hulu show “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” which is now streaming.
Keaton died on Oct. 11 at age 79. The Hollywood legend left behind a long career and two adopted kids, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25. Her family later disclosed that she died of pneumonia.
Arquette remembered Keaton as being an “artist” from everything including her, “visuals, design, writing, directing.” She also noted the way that Keaton “perceived the world” and “her generosity of spirit.”
Arquette recalled that the “Annie Hall” star directed her in both the 1991 movie “Wildflower” and the 1990 after-school special, “Girl with the Crazy Brother.”
“And I was very young and starting out, and I’d be nervous” she said.
The “Severance” actress remembered having “this big crying scene” at the time.
“And I have to do it in front of Diane Keaton! I mean, that was probably the scariest thing on Earth,” she recalled.
The “True Romance” actress said that Keaton, “would come up to me before a take, and just put her hand on my back, and I just felt infused by her support. She just was so in [the moment] with me.”
Arquette said that when she’d do something funny in a take, Keaton would laugh and Arquette worried “the sound guy” would pick it up, “because during a take, she’s cracking up so loud.”
Keaton never married, and adopted her children as a single mom when she was in her 50s.
“[Diane] loved being a mom. She really, really love that,” Arquette told The Post.
“She just was immediate and she was authentic,” the “Boyhood” star added. “And she was generous and kind to everybody. And she was a great thinker….an incredible artist.”
In 2017, Keaton opened up about motherhood during an interview with People.
“They have no interest in what I do, which I think is very healthy. We live a relatively normal — well, sort of normal — life,” she said at the time.
“Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist, it was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in,” she once said to Ladies Home Journal, per People. “I didn’t think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother.”
