“About six in the morning I’ll have a Lillet, or a chardonnay.” It’s now 11am how many bottles down is she? “Oh God, maybe 25?” I was impressed by the drinking, I say is it accurate? “Oh yeah,” says Keaton gamely. Cue big dinners, long montages (frocks, shops, naked statues), endless double entendre and a remarkably large part for Holby City’s Hugh Quarshie. In the sequel, the four friends go to Italy for Fonda’s bachelorette party. In the first film, the widowed Diane hooks up with Andy García. With Andy García in Book Club: The Next Chapter. But it was already the second day of shooting.” Keaton did suggest they change her character’s name, says Simms. “We stole a bunch of ideas from her life,” says director Bill Holderman, who co-wrote with his wife, Erin Simms, who speak to me over Zoom a few days later. “I mean, don’t do much more.” Not for the last time, I’m not exactly sure what she meant.Īnyway, in Book Club: The Next Chapter, a sequel to the 2018 hit, Keaton once again plays Diane, a woman in her 70s, bumbling, eccentric, fond of men’s tailoring and wide-brimmed hats. “I think a little goes plenty,” she says. Yes, phone is so much better, I say, and if there’s any nicer sound than Diane Keaton laughing at your joke, I’d like to hear it.Ī pause. “It’s always better when you don’t see me,” she says, “or see them, because it becomes so strange, you know? I guess I mean: it’s not that bad or anything, but it’s a little odd.” We both talk, stop, talk over each other again, a car crash of chatter.

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