Part III “A dream come true”

Diane Keaton said looking at the cropped version of Sponsor: Part III was “one of the best times of my life.”

The actress, who plays Kay Corleone in the 1990 Francis Ford Coppola film, said the newly christened Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Helped her see the film, which received poor reviews, in a whole new light.

“It was one of the best times of my life watching it,” Keaton said. Variety, after Coppola invited the cast to watch his new cut during a private screening on the Paramount lot.

She added: “For me it was a dream come true. I saw the film in a completely different light. When I saw him a long time ago it was like ‘Oh I don’t know’. It didn’t seem to be doing well and the reviews weren’t great. But Francis restructured the beginning and the end and man, I’m telling you it worked.

Keaton also said that she was not fully convinced by the film when it was first released. “I don’t know why people didn’t like him, but I was one of them,” she explained. “What’s wrong with me? Why didn’t I like it before? But I didn’t. I kind of pushed it aside and thought, ‘Well. ‘

Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone releases on VOD and Blu-Ray on December 8 – although Keaton is hoping moviegoers can see it in theaters one day as well.

“I just hope people can see it in a theater with great music and great sound, so that it takes you away,” she said. “I like films on a large scale. I love them on my face. You get absorbed in them that way. It takes you out of your mundane, silly life. I speak for myself, of course.