New interesting interview with our Michelle Pfeiffer who talks about wearing enormous hats in Cheri, as well as her own fashion mishaps!… from Glamour.

Sweet Cheri

Michelle Pfeiffer describes her personal style as schizophrenic – explaining that “for a while I’ll decide to be hippy chic and then for a while I’ll decide I need to grow up and wear Chanel!”

Admitting that she finds the resurgence of Eighties dressing “horrifying”, the Hollywood beauty tells VogueTV about the style trials of her latest role – as an irresistible seductress in the Stephen Frears-directed Chéri, in which she stars alongside Kathy Bates and Rupert Friend.

“The challenge was to wear those enormous hats without pulling your hair out,” she admits. “And the next challenge was to fit both Kathy and myself onto the screen at the sametime – they really were huge.”

Interview Transcript

Reporter: So Michelle, what attracted you to this role?

Michelle Pfeiffer: I was very surprised by the interpretation of a courtesan of that time, and she’s a woman of integrity, and a woman who’s fiercely independent and very shrewd business woman and incredibly ahead of her time during a period of time when, I mean not only is not your stereotypical view of a courtesan but it was also during a period of time when women didn’t really have any freedom to speak of, so, um , and she was also really, not only she was ahead of her time, she was also ahead of her piers so, um, and of course, the idea of working with Stephen Frears again was really, really exciting

Rep: So you play a beautiful retired courtesan, grappling with the aging process. Do you think women at the turn of the 20th century dealt with aging differently to today , in Hollywood specifically?

MP: No, we probably have just more creams available

Rep: So you’ve acted in films for what, 30 years?

MP: Ahem

Rep: What advice would you give Rupert Friend about coping with celebrity ?

MP: He just doesn’t need any advice, he’s really grounded and really smart, and he already gets it

Rep: The costumes in the film are amazing.

MP: Ahem

Rep: How were they to wear and were there any wardrobe mishaps?

MP: The only challenge was the hats – there were, you know, that was a bit of a challenge, they weight a lot …

Rep: Really…?

MP: … so how do you get them to stay on without sort of pulling your hair out, and then the challenge was always hot to fit Kathy (Bates) and I in the same frame (laughs) we were both wearing hats!

Rep: The characters style are sort of immaculate and uncomplicated. How would you define your style?

MP: Schizophrenic

Rep: Really?

MP: Ahem

Rep: In what way?

MP: Um, you know, I just sort of for a while I’ll decide I’ll be hippy chic and then I’ll decide I need to grow up and I need to wear Channel

Rep: Can you admit of making any sort of fashion mistakes?

MP: when I first started out, some of the things, I look back, you know, and , um, with the shoulder pads and the rolled up sleeves – and that’s coming back!! I saw that in a fashion magazine, I was horrified!

Source: Glamour
Thanks a lot to Nicediva for the video and Adelutza for the transcription

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