Diane Keaton

I really literally couldn't say that because it's dead on, flat on, the truth, the feeling of the moment, the depth of that moment.

And I remember the director saying, no, Diane, you have to say that.

You have to say those lines.

And I was going, no, because listen, let me tell you something.

As far as I'm concerned, if somebody called me up, if somebody doctor called me up and said, guess what?

Nothing's working.

And yeah, you are going to die.

I couldn't sit there and get down on the floor and pick up those pills and say to my sister, I'm so lucky to have loved so much.

I'm so lucky.

I said, I would be terrified.

No, no, no.

That's not the intention.

And because really the heart of the piece is in that, you know, it's right there in those lines at the end there.

And.

I was fighting it, and Meryl Streep came up into my room, and she told me also, in a very kind way, that this is someplace I have to try and go and imagine.

Of course, I can't imagine it, but on the other hand, you have to kind of get swept away.

And one of the reasons I think that I was helped was, of course, because of Meryl, because somehow being and looking into Meryl's face, she just kind of lifted me up and helped me go there.

But frankly, it's not easy for me.

It's just not easy.

It's hard to imagine being that kind of a person.