Michelle Pfeiffer covers the latest issue of Interview magazine. She sat down for a conversation with director Darren Aronofsky and the two discuss her career, her fears, and her big return.
Pfeiffer broke out, thanks to her stunning performance in the revered classic, “Scarface”. While the film went on to become a cinematic masterpiece, the role of Elvira Hancock was a trying one.
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“I’m very willful, you know. I’m a survivor. It’s in my nature. I don’t look so tough, but I am. And I think I was able to hide behind the tough exterior of that character, who was just sort of tuned out and tuned off, drugged,” she told Aronofsky of her performance in the film alongside Al Pacino.
She continued and admitted that she was terrified while filming. “It was a six-month shoot I think. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and I were really the only females. It was a boys’ club,” she revealed. “It was also the nature of the relationship, for Tony Montana to be very dismissive of my character. So I would go to sleep some nights crying.”
Pfeiffer has been relatively quiet over the years. Her last major role was in 2013’s “The Family”, but she is set for a splashy return this year. With upcoming roles in Aronofsky’s “Mother!”, Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express” and HBO’s upcoming “The Wizard of Lies,” she’s got a big year ahead.
She’s aware she’s been away for a while, but according to the actress, when she’s ready, she’s ready. “I don’t know, time just went on,” she said. “And now, you know, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I’m more open now, my frame of mind, because I really want to work now, because I can,” she admitted.
