She’s remembering a friend.
Sarah Paulson is a “profoundly sad” over the death of Hollywood legend Diane Keaton.
“I was incredibly close to her,” the “American Horror Story” actress, 50, told The Hollywood Reporter in a story published Friday. “And this is a profoundly sad time for me.”
She added, “I can’t talk about it in any way that’s articulate other than to say that for all you knew and loved about her as a performer, she was even more as a friend.”
Paulson told Access Hollywood that she’s “not able to talk about” Keaton’s legacy yet.
“All I can say is…..what you thought she was as a performer, she was even more spectacular as a human being.”
She added: “[I’m] the luckiest person in the world to have had her in my life the way that I did.”
Keaton died at 79 died on Oct. 11 at age 79.
The “Father of the Bride” actress is survived by two adopted kids, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25. The Post has since confirmed that her cause of death was pneumonia.
Keaton and Paulson met when they played mother and daughter in the 1999 movie “The Other Sister.”
After the “Annie Hall” star passed away, a video clip resurfaced of a previous interview that Paulson did at Chanel’s Through Her Lens luncheon.
“She played my mother in a movie in my first sort of studio movie,” Paulson said in the clip.
“It was a really thrilling experience and she was the most generous, just playful, fun, alive performer and really taught me the power of beats in a scene. And I was so scared, and she really took me under her wing and we’ve been really good friends ever since,” she said at the time. “She’s a filmmaker as well. She’s a fashion icon. She’s an absolute iconoclast. And I feel very lucky to call her a dear friend.”
Since Keaton’s passing, a slew of A-listers have paid tribute.
Keaton’s former “Something’s Gotta Give” co-star Keanu Reeves praised her to The Hollywood Reporter as a “very special artist and person”
On Thursday, Keaton’s former flame and “The Godfather” co-star Al Pacino told Deadline: “When I first heard the news, I was shaken.”
He added, “Diane was my partner, my friend, someone who brought me happiness and on more than one occasion influenced the direction of my life. Though over thirty years has past since we were together, the memories remain vivid, and with her passing, they have returned with a force that is both painful and moving.”
Particia Arquette exclusively told The Post, “They just are never going to have another person on earth like her.”
Arquette, who was in the 1991 movie “Wildflower” directed by Keaton, remembered her as a “total artist” who had a “generosity of spirit” and “loved being a mom.”
