She's a survivor who's happy even though she has sacrificed her life for others. Playing her taught me to be less selfish and self-centred. I lived a long time solely for myself, so there are areas of my life that are less evolved than they are in most people my age. To play a woman stricken with leukemia, Keaton was made to look every year of her 50 years and possibly more. I don't think that people who try to look younger ever really do.
Plastic surgery gives people a strange unnatural look.
I find it terribly eerie to look at them. Keaton says she has remained friends with Allen, Beatty and Pacino and she looks forward to working with each of them again. The ladies have it. Despite the facade of political correctness, family stories and scripts with female lead characters are a tough sell in Hollywood, with many agents refusing to even consider pitching them to the studios. Waiting to Exhale, of course, was the only all-female hit of the past year, counting heavily on the appeal of pop singer Whitney Houston and the popularity of white male bashing in urban America.