Bette Midler Recalls Her Favorite Memory with Diane Keaton and Why There Never Was a ‘First Wives Club’ Sequel

Bette Midler has some fond memories with the late Diane Keaton.

The Hocus Pocus star, 79, revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that while she had met the Annie Hall actress prior to working together, her most memorable moment with Keaton, who died on Oct. 11, didn’t come until they finally shared the screen together. 

“I have to say my favorite was [shooting] First Wives Club with [Keaton and Goldie Hawn], and we had so much fun on that [movie],” Midler shared. 

“I think that was the most fun I ever had because, those two girls between them, I was on the floor every single day,” she explained. “I mean, I was crying with laughter.” 

Midler went on to say that she has “always adored” Keaton, and noted that the actress’ uniqueness and her being “so completely who she was” made her so “special.” 

“I used to go home and try to do that style that she had of like, [the] giddy style,” she said while emulating Keaton’s iconic side to side head movement. “I couldn’t do it.”

“Nobody could do it,” she continued. “And I’ve seen a lot of people come close but nobody has ever done the true spirit that she used. It was just— she’s an extraordinary, extraordinary personality.”

Host Andy Cohen, 57, then asked Midler about her previously saying there was no First Wives Club sequel due to “political reasons.”

“We tried and tried and tried. All of us tried,” Midler said. “We got together, we tried, singly, doubly, triply. What I’m saying is we really tried. We got all sorts of producers involved, but there was something that was going on at Paramount … They just dug in their heels. They just didn’t feel like it. And we were really insulted. But you know Hocus Pocus took 30 years…”

Keaton died of pneumonia at the age of 79 on Saturday, Oct. 11, her family said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE. “There are no further details available at this time, and her family has asked for privacy in this moment of great sadness,” a spokesperson said.

A source told PEOPLE on Oct. 11 that the Oscar winner’s health “declined very suddenly, which was heartbreaking for everyone who loved her.” Her death “was so unexpected,” added the source, “especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”

Midler was one of the stars who paid tribute to Keaton after her death. In an Instagram post, the Bette star shared a black-and-white photo of her former costar and longtime friend, posing in a suit and hat.

“The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died,” she wrote. “I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”

Her The First Wives Club costar Hawn, 79, also shared a sentimental tribute to the Poms star on Instagram, which began with the words, “Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you.”

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“… How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can’t tell me to ‘shut up’ honey,” Hawn continued, adding of Keaton, “There was, and will be, no one like you.”

She went on to further reflect on her friendship with Keaton, which grew during the making of The First Wives Club. Recalling how the pair would start their day together “with coffee in the makeup trailer, laughing and joking, right through to the very last day of filming,” she said, “It was a roller coaster of love.”

“We agreed to grow old together, and one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends. Well, we never got to live together, but we did grow older together,” Hawn continued. “Who knows … maybe in the next life. Shine your fairy dust up there, girlfriend. I’m going to miss the hell out of you.”