Elizabeth Berkley reflects on sharing screen with Diane Keaton

American actress and television personality Elizabeth Berkley recalled working with an all-star cast that included Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and the late Diane Keaton.

Berkley portrayed the young, gold-digging actress Phoebe LaVelle in the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club, based on Olivia Goldsmith’s novel of the same name.

Almost three decades later, at the world premiere of Hulu’s new legal drama All’s Fair, Berkley reflected on memorable moments from the set while speaking to PEOPLE.

“It was a profound time,” Berkley recalled. “To be embraced by these three most extraordinary women at the top of their game, women I had looked up to.”

For Berkley, Hawn, Midler, and Keaton proved to be everything she expected them to be, and even more.

“They say never get too close to your heroes,” Berkley said. “Well, each of those women, in their own right, not only lived up to what I hoped they would be — they went beyond, with their warmth, generosity, and encouragement at a time when I really needed it in the industry.”

Berkley also shared that it was deeply meaningful, then and now, to see women standing together at a time when such stories were rarely celebrated in the ’90s.

“And on that film — those women did,” she said. “So for me, as a 20-something, to see that, I realized what it could be and that I never wanted anything less than that.”

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