OMG! OMG! Have you seen Michelle Pfeiffer with so high heels ever?

Michelle Pfeiffer attended also The View alongside Rupert Friend to promote Chéri. I think I don’t remember I have seen ever another entry of Michelle so spectacular!… that great black dress and those very high heels to die! I agree with many pfans, Michelle was one of her better appearances in my opinion. Sadly it was too short!

Detail: the salute between Michelle and Whoopie Goldberb, so cute!. Remember that both worked together in The Deep End Of The Ocean in 1998.

You can watch here the video:

Interview Transcription

by Courtney Bissonette

Barbra Walters: In the new movie that is just coming out, Cheri, Michelle Pfeiffer stars as a woman who has made a career out of seducing the rich and powerful, good for her, until she meets her match, the young Rupert Friend, watch, and take a look!

[Clip plays]

BW:  Oh! I had such a good time! [Audience laughs] Let me tell you. Oh, sorry. Well this is such a gorgeous, fun movie.

Whoopie Goldberg: This is a Barbra movie. This is really.

Joy Behar: She would like to be that courtesan.

BW: Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend.

[Michelle and Rupert walk on]

BW: Hello, shame on you the mother of teenagers, a happily married woman

[Michelle laughs]

BW: So you heard us talking about the term cougar, the older women, so how do you feel about it?

Michelle Pfeiffer: I’m not fond of that term.

BW: Because?

MP: I mean, you know, I mean I don’t get terribly upset about it. I just think it is kind of irritating. Well I mean I know Joy disagrees but it does seem as if, it’s just part of the double standard. You know it just seems to me that men are sugar daddies. I think there is a difference between sugar daddies and a leach. And uhm…

JB: Well the sugar daddy pays.

MP: Yeah

BW: Well in this movie so do you.

MP: And you know I think cougar has a this sort of predatory connotation to it. It’s like our talons come out or something.

BW: Instead you are what in this movie? Instead of a cougar?

MP: Uhm… I look at it as a finishing school. [laughs] I mean she does kind of save his life really. You know he’s incredibly self destructive and she sort of takes him in, under her wing…

WG: And other parts of her.

[Laughs]

MP: … and sort of ushers him into adulthood takes him off of his mothers hands because he’s making her crazy and spending all of her money.

WG:  It’s the way it used to be, remember we talked about this ages ago. Women, fathers would bring their sons to women…

MP: She gets him off drugs and she gets him to stop drinking. And…

JB: She’s like a one women rehab center.

MP: That’s right. It was the original rehab.

BW: Rupert, I want to ask you something. Is it true you don’t own a television set?

Rupert Friend: It’s true yeah.

BW: You miss debates and you miss footage of Katrina, and of Iran. You’re a young actor why don’t you own a television set?

RF: News from the internet really.

BW: Oh all from the internet. So it’s just that it’s a different generation. Did you ever own a television?

RF: Not in my adult life no.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Do you Hulu?

BW: I may kill myself. [laughs]

EH:  Is it Hulu that the….?:

RF: No, no

MP: OK…… What is that?

EH: Hulu, It’s where you watch television online.

MP: Oh. interesting.JB: You and your girlfriend Keira Knightly are constantly being perused by the paparazzi, I see that a lot and I read somewhere that you would like to take them on  and you give credit to anyone who would smack them down.

RF: I got in a lot of trouble for that actually?

JB: But there very aggressive….

RF: yeah I think you know particularly young women are being followed by strange aggressive men its frightening you know. I think we should try look at the controls about that.

JB: So that’s it it’s the aggressive men like the Princess Diana Syndrome?

RF: Yes it’s stalking.

MP: Well the only difference between a stalker and paparazzi is you put a camera around your neck and all the sudden it’s legal.

Sherri Shepard: Michelle, I wanted to ask you about this movie Cheri and you play this breath taken beauty. Who is a courtesan and you see your career coming to an slowly coming to an end because you are getting older.

MP: Of a certain age.

SS: Of a certain?

MP: I think that’s how they describe it.

SS: Oh, ok of a certain age, I got it girl.

[Applause]

SS: Of a certain age.

EH: And a fantastic wardrobe might I say.

SS: and Hollywood does when they get to a certain age and they tries to discard. Was there anything that was relatable in taking on this character?

JB: You got this gig so apparently you’re still hot.

MP: Well I think over all its sort of hard to tell because overall there are fewer movies being made I don’t know really what the numbers are but its some astounding, I think 30 % of the movies being made of the movies being made 10 or 15 years ago. So I think all actors are really feeling it I think there are fewer roles.

BW: Fewer romances and fewer roles for women

MP: And fewer dramas but fewer for men too, my point is there are fewer. You know with reality TV. And there’s just

BW: Do you think men of a certain age have the same problem of women of a certain age?

MP: No, for sure not, for sure not

WG: But there are only five of them I mean when you really think about it there are only five guys of a certain age that are working most actors are scratching to get something.

JB: Well, there’s television. A lot of actors are going into television. And I think the Brits really do television great.

EH: He doesn’t watch it. But I want to ask Rupert, you said there were some thing that were lost in translation while you were filming? Like the American English somehow?

RF: Yeah the, the scene where Michelle is having a massage and I wanted to hit her on the, the butt. And… uhm I asked her if I could and Michelle said yeah you can smack my fanny all you like.

[Michelle Makes and embarrassed face]

JB: Look at her

RF: And in England a fanny is a very different thing.

[Audience Laughs]

JB: What’s the Fanny in England? Wait a minute we’ve got to find out what the fanny is in England?

RF: In America the fanny is the middle of a woman at the back and in England the fanny is the middle of a woman at the front.

JB: That has got to hurt.

BW: Did you know that?

MP: No, No I didn’t but when I said it and I saw the look on his face I realized I said something terribly wrong.

EH: So which fanny did you smack?

MP: And that would be over sharing.

BW to RF: Did you like the sex scenes by the way? Very lurid sex scenes…

RF: Did I like them?

BW: Yeah you know very lurid sex scenes you know

[Michelle and Rupert share an embarrassed laugh]

RF: Ahh

BW: It’s a simple yes or know?

WG to MP: How you doing? You looking good.

JB: The guy played a Nazi in his last movie, This is a step up.

BW: Well listen if you want to see sex scenes… if you wanna see the fanny… If you wanna see Rupert and michelle, We want to tell you that Cheri….

MP: His fanny not mine

RF: Well his fanny, not hers, but she’s got a cute fanny nevertheless. Cherie is in theatres June 26^th.

Thanks a lot the fan who uploaded it! and od course thanks a lot my dear Adelutza for the discovery and Courtney Bissonette for the transcription!

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