Diane Keaton Identified With Her Character's Fear
For her latest film Hampstead, 71-year-old actress Diane Keaton plays Emily, an American widow living in the leafy London village.
In the film Hampstead, Diane Keaton plays a woman struggling with debts left by her late husband as she befriends Donald (Brendan Gleeson), a homeless man living in a shack nearby. "It's a really good story," Keaton says, "about that certain point in your life when you feel that nothing will ever change for you, that you're stuck forever, that you're older and you don't really have any use in this world. But then you address those issues you didn't want to address and stop being afraid."
Diane with her onscreen son James Norton
She feels that these themes helped her sympathise with her character. "I do identify with Emily in a sense of being a coward," Keaton says. "She's kind of a coward in the beginning. She doesn't tell the truth. It's easy for me to identify with her problems because they're the problems that I feel I also have. She's a modified version of me!"
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