Cherish your idols—and meet them if you can.
Kane once lived in an apartment next to Bette
Davis. Despite her fiery reputation, the Golden
Age legend “was very kind to me, very sup-
portive,” Kane remembers. Davis even invited
her over for a drink before Kane attended the
Emmys, where she was nominated for Taxi.
“She watched the show, and she was rooting for
me, and it was unbelievable,” says Kane. “Jack
[Nicholson] was my idol, and she was my idol.
So far meeting my idols has not disappointed
me. I lucked out.”
Put the work in for your friendships.
Kane, who dated Woody Harrelson in the
’80s but has never been married, keeps the
best friendships in her life close to her heart.
She met one of her closest confidants, Diane
Keaton, on the 1976 set of Harry and Wal-
ter Go to New York. They later costarred in
Annie Hall and 1989’s The Lemon Sisters.
“We always have managed to take care of our
friendship and make sure that nothing harms
it,” says Kane, who is also close with Bette
Midler and Anjelica Huston. “I have made
some new friends accidentally as I’ve got-
ten older—but I don’t feel I need any more.”
Take a chance. You might make history.
As an early “worshipper” of Woody Allen’s films,
Kane was excited to be cast in Annie Hall. Still,
she had no idea it would be so successful, win-
ning four Oscars in 1978, including Best Picture.
“You never know,” she muses. “I’ve been in a
bunch of them now, classics like The Princess
Bride. But you don’t know that going in, and you
can’t think about that at all, because you can’t
work like, ‘Wait until you see this! I’m going to
do a classic thing here.’ You’d be an idiot!”•
‘When I was
young... I thought
I wasn’t pretty
enough. Boy,
I wasted those
15 years’
Scrooged
Kane starred with Bill Murray
as the Ghost of Christmas
Present in the 1988 holiday
classic, a reimagining of
Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
“People assume I’m a comedic actor
now, but I’m a character actor,” she
says of playing Lillian Kaushtupper,
Kimmy’s tough-talking New York-
proud landlady on the Netflix sitcom.
The Princess Bride
Kane played Valerie,
wife to Billy Crystal’s
healer Miracle Max,
in the beloved
1987 fantasy-comedy.
Hunters
“I worked with Al Pacino [not
pictured] on Dog Day Afternoon, so
it was fun to work together again,”
she says of her costar on the new
Amazon drama about Nazi hunters.
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