'Inside the Actors Studio' Mentions Michelle Pfeiffer (1994-2005)
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- James Lipton, the late legendary host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio’, was a declared Michelle Pfeiffer admirer. Since the show first aired in 1994, he never missed an opportunity to ask actors or directors from her filmography: “What was it like to work with Michelle Pfeiffer?”. Here we can see: Matthew Broderick (“Ladyhawke”); Alec Baldwin (“Married to the Mob”); Mike Nichols (“Wolf”); Martin Scorsese (“The Age of Innocence”); Jeff Bridges (“The Fabulous Baker Boys”); and Jodie Foster (on the casting of “The Silence of the Lambs”). Later on, in 2007, he had the opportunity to receive Pfeiffer as a guest on the show.
00:00 Matthew Broderick (S2E3, 1995)
03:17 Alec Baldwin (S1E2, 1994)
04:14 Martin Scorsese (S9E6, 2002)
05:02 Jeff Bridges (S9E17, 2003)
07:44 Jodie Foster (S11E21, 2005)
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*Mike Nichols segment (S3E8, 1995) was cut due to copyright.
Here is the transcription:
James Lipton: I will ask you about a fascinating movie, in which two great actors appear, that is called “Wolf”. I will ask you only, please, to talk to me for one minute about someone who fascinates me. That’s Michelle Pfeiffer! She is perhaps the most beautiful woman in film. She’s also an amazingly good actor!
Mike Nichols: Very good actor! She is just the thing that you dream of. She is somebody who is there on time, friendly and kind to everyone. She knows what she’s going to do. I mean, she knows her lines and she’s open to whatever is happening. She is a true actress.
James Lipton: She is somebody who could do, I think, nearly anything.
Mike Nichols: You know, it’s very hard nowadays to photograph people the way they used to be photographed. Cause nobody has the time. And because nobody has the time there are very few DPs left who can do what the great DPs (directors of photography) could do before with light. And it would take hours and hours and hours to make Rita Hayworth look like that, and Dietrich, and so forth. The startling thing about Michelle is she looks like that when nobody’s done it.
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Yes, she is beautiful, we all know that, but she is TALENTED.
Thanks, no one else caught the multiple mentions of that, even though they focused primarily on that aspect...dolt.
@@malcolmdrake6137 I think you’re the dolt here. Dolt.
Yep and she has no formal training
It's a shame she wasn't considered for the Oscar for her role as Madame Olenska in "The Age of Innocence".
A great shame of the Oscars. Pfeiffer should have been nominated and won for Age of Innocence. Ellen Olenska was the role of a lifetime and Pfeiffer took it in a direction that few others could. The scene where she and Day-Lewis are together in her home and she struggles to express about not knowing the society is an utter tour de force. She is trying to figure him out, trying to say it humorously so she does not offend, but also expressing her true thoughts. Just a tremendous performance.
Michele Pfeiffer is a beautiful woman today's.
Not to mention tomorrow’s
@@perseus9428 yes, she will always be beautiful's
Michelle tried out for 4th year replacement in tv series Charlie's Angels. (So did Kim Basinger) Thank God, she didn't get it because they said she was too exotic. It would have torpedoed her career. Farrah Fawcett was a great actress but she was always remembered for her 1 year on CA. Most of the TV angels were good actresses
you're probably right
She used to live in Woodside, CA. When I was in pest control, I treated her neighbor
I love Ladyhawke ❤ Rutger never looked better. The music is a bit of a jolt though 😂
Thanks for the post. Unfortunately, they did not go into _why_ Jodie Foster (who is very *good* of course) ended up with the part. Rumor has it that Pfeiffer turned it down...
According to director Jonathan Demme, there were 300 applicants for the role of Clarice Starling. Michelle Pfeiffer and Meg Ryan turned the role down because of the disturbing subject matter. Brooke Smith (who ended up playing Catherine Martin) and Nicole Kidman read for the part.
@@pfeifferpedia Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn’t aware that Meg Ryan was also in the mix-although, I can’t see any of the others (other than Pfeiffer, of course) pulling off the role as well as Foster.
I’m surprised that Michelle Pfeiffer would have let “disturbing subject matter” come between her and the Starling role. Based upon her past movies, I would have thought that she was game for *anything*! Also, according to interviews I’ve seen, she gravitates to eclectic parts. [Back to “disturbing,” I felt that “Scarface” was so gratuitously violent, it made “The Godfather” look like a Disney film.]
@@philmenges9887 good point
@@philmenges9887 In this interview with Barbara Walters, she answers your question: ua-cam.com/video/VBAmNJPaBYs/v-deo.html
Adding to your point, ‘Scarface’ is a violent movie, but if you notice, Michelle’s character is not involved on any violent scene. Until 1990 she didn’t have any genre film or dark character on her filmography (except 'Scarface', but unfortunately Elvira's storyline is not developed enough). That changed later on with ‘Batman Returns’, ‘What Lies Beneath’, ‘White Oleander’, ‘Mother!’. Now it’s very clear to see her as Clarice Starling. I think Jodie was wonderful, Michelle would be just as good.
@@pfeifferpedia Yes, I had seen that Walters interview, some time back. I had also read an article that indicated Pfeiffer had turned down the role of Starling (and for the same reason). [By the way, I used the phrase, “rumor has it,” solely because we have only _her_ words for why she didn’t end up with the role. This is not to imply she is a _liar_ … quite to the contrary, I believe her to be a straight shooter … not to mention, a -_good_ and upstanding human being.]
As for Michelle being “just as good” at playing Clarice, I wholeheartedly agree-even though Jodie Foster had racked up quite a resume of gritty roles, even playing a prostitute in “Taxi Driver,” at the tender age of 12.
I also agree, that the character development of Elvira, in “Scarface,” was as skimpy as her sexy attire. Pfeiffer was cast as a drop-dead gorgeous “set piece,” (and she _knew_ it). [I think she, later, snapped up the plain-Jane role of “Frankie” (in “Frankie and Johnny”) to show the moviegoing audience (as well as herself) that there was a lot more depth to Michelle Pfeiffer than just a pretty face.
And yes, “Michelle’s character is not [directly] involved in any violent scene” in Scarface (other than shattering a tableful of dishes at the end). So, I just chalk this up to “guilt by association.” She was young, looking for something bigger than “Grease 2”; and “Scarface” really put her on the map.
As a sidenote, I was surprised that Michelle Pfeiffer was even _offered_ the role of Eva Peron, in “Evita.” I was even _more_ surprised with her softly melodic demo recording: ua-cam.com/video/l-Pw604VFK8/v-deo.html. But, as I’m sure you know, this was another role that Pfeiffer turned down-not that she didn’t want the part, but because, for family reasons, was not willing to go on location, to Argentina.
So, of course, the role of Eva Peron went to Madonna…which was probably best for all involved. While I’m not a Madonna fan, she _does_ more resemble the figure which she was to portray-plus, being a professional singer, she had the _pipes_ to belt out some of the more powerhouse vocals.
Grease 2 is on YT right now 😂
Who cares if people are beautiful!
Some people do. And who are you to judge them?
It's relative to the broader conversation of beautiful women historically not being taken seriously as actresses in Hollywood, which is fact.
Who cares if a chocolate eclair is more *alluring* to the taste buds than a Granola bar?
So, the Reason so many people "mention" is the host is INFATUATED with her...HE keeps bringing her up. 😂
Obviously, you have quite a fixation on Michelle Pfeiffer, and are probably not an objective judge of her films. Of course I have the same problem and feel exactly the same way. Since I first saw her many years ago, I thought she was one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever laid eyes on, and also one of the best actresses of our times.
Unfortunately, your message was truncated, after "...I thought she was one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever laid eyes on, and also one..."
I am curious as to where you were going, beyond your interesting lead-in...
@@philmenges9887 "of the best actresses of our times." Don't know why you couldn't see the end of the sentence.
@@brinsonopinion Beats the hell outta _me_ ... the entire comment shows up fine now!?
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