{"id":2085976,"date":"2025-10-12T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2085976"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:58:17","slug":"steve-martin-more-father-of-the-bride-stars-react-to-diane-keaton-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steve-martin-more-father-of-the-bride-stars-react-to-diane-keaton-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Martin, More Father of the Bride Stars React to Diane Keaton Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stars of the iconic <i>Father of the Bride <\/i>franchise will forever remember their matriarch, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/diane-keaton\/\"><strong>Diane Keaton<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">News broke on Saturday, October 11, that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/diane-keaton-dead-annie-hall-father-of-the-bride-star-was-79\/\">Keaton died at the age of 79<\/a>. A cause of death was not immediately revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Oscar-winning actress, who is survived by her two children, starred as Nina Banks in 1991\u2019s <i>Father of the Bride <\/i>opposite <strong>Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Martin Short<\/strong> and <strong>Kieran Culkin<\/strong>. The film, directed by<strong> Charles Shyer<\/strong>, followed parents Nina and George (Martin) as they help daughter Annie (Williams-Paisley) plan her whirlwind wedding to Bryan McKenzie (<strong>George Newbern<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Father of the Bride <\/i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/diane-keatons-most-memorable-roles-the-godfather-more\/\">spurned a sequel<\/a>, <i>Father of the Bride Part II, <\/i>in 1995 as both Annie and Nina discovered they were expecting babies at the same time. The entire cast, with the addition of newcomers<strong> Florence Pugh, Ben Platt<\/strong> and <strong>Alexandra Shipp<\/strong>, later reunited for a virtual sequel on YouTube amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/steve-martin-reacts-to-father-of-the-bride-costar-diane-keatons-death\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gettyimages-105794496-diane-keaton-steve-martin.jpg?crop=0px%2C23px%2C1350px%2C762px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"gettyimages-105794496-diane-keaton-steve-martin\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gettyimages-105794496-diane-keaton-steve-martin.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/steve-martin-reacts-to-father-of-the-bride-costar-diane-keatons-death\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Steve Martin Reacts to &#8216;Father of the Bride&#8217; Costar Diane Keaton&#8217;s Death<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tSteve Martin has reacted to Father of the Bride costar Diane Keaton\u2019s death. \u201cLoved!\u201d Martin, 80, wrote via X on Saturday, October 11, alongside a black and white throwback photo of a young Keaton, whose death at age 79 was announced earlier that day. Martin also shared one of Keaton\u2019s famous quotes from her 1977 [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Two years later, Keaton <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/diane-keaton-hasnt-watched-father-of-the-bride-remake-details\/\">exclusively told <i>Us Weekly <\/i><\/a>that she would \u201cof course\u201d be open to returning for another iteration of <i>Father of the Bride.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201c<\/i>Steven, Marty, I mean, they\u2019ve got their television show [<i>Only Murders in the Building<\/i>] now,\u201d Keaton told <i>Us <\/i>in 2022. \u201cI mean, they\u2019re giants and they\u2019re just incredibly great actors and funny and smart and all that. We all know that, and it works. How they\u2019re doing it on TV is pretty remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Keep scrolling to see how Keaton\u2019s <i>Father of the Bride <\/i>costars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/celebrities-react-to-the-death-of-diane-keaton-at-age-79\/\">have honored her legacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Steve Martin<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Martin reposted Keaton\u2019s throwback <i>Interview<\/i> magazine profile, where Short asked her which comedian was sexier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI mean, you\u2019re both idiots,\u201d Keaton said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a Saturday <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPrw2Zjkq76\/?igsh=NGZnN2d5enM4NDE2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> note, Martin said that her remarks \u201csum up [their] delightful relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Williams-Paisley responded, writing in the comments section, \u201cI can absolutely hear her saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.3%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium credit-added wp-image-4130091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-Cast-MSDFAOF_BV013.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Buena Vista Pictures\/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Kimberly Williams-Paisley<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDiane, working with you will always be one of the highlights of my life. You are one of a kind, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time,\u201d she wrote in her own <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPrmRhLie79\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> tribute, sharing throwback movie photos. \u201cThank you for your kindness, your generosity, your talent, and above all, your laughter. <span class=\"s1\">\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83d\udc94\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>George Newbern<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Newbern appeared in the films as Bryan McKenzie, Annie\u2019s fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDiane Keaton was a brilliant light in every project and in every way. She was elegant, charming, witty and searingly funny,\u201d the <i>Scandal <\/i>alum wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPr0XwHkmcV\/?hl=en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cI was so, so lucky to have spent time with her during the<i> Father of the Bride<\/i> films. She had a powerful ease about her, and had the ability to make a person feel like they were the only one in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Newbern continued, \u201cShe will be dearly missed. To my eye, she was an absolute artist. Unfailingly interesting and interested in all things Beautiful. Rest in peace, sweet Diane.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:65.9%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium credit-added wp-image-4130092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036\" width=\"1000\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Father-of-the-Bride-George-Newbern-MCDFAOF_EC036.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">Buena Vista Pictures\/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><b>Jazz Charton<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">While Charton did not appear in the films, her husband, Culkin, played Nina and George\u2019s son, Matty. (Culkin does not have public social media profiles.) Charton reposted several tributes to Keaton via her Instagram Stories, including Martin\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars of the iconic Father of the Bride franchise will forever remember their matriarch, Diane Keaton. News broke on Saturday, October 11, that Keaton died at the age of 79. A cause of death was not immediately revealed. The Oscar-winning actress, who is survived by her two children, starred as Nina Banks in 1991\u2019s Father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2085977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22062,24003,25601,100241],"class_list":["post-2085976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-deaths","tag-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Steve-Martin-More-Father-of-the-Bride-Stars-React-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085978,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085976\/revisions\/2085978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}