Interview with Michelle Pfeiffer
In an interview with PARADE Michelle Pfeiffer talked about her participation in a project of Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows", a career, family and relationships with men.
- This year, you and your husband are celebrating the 19th anniversary of living together. How do you determine whether a person become a mainstay in your life and whether he deserves a chance?
"Actually, I'm not often in my life met people that meet those criteria. (Laughs) It takes years to fully trust someone, I know myself. This is mainly due to the fact that I hide my private life and literally forcing myself to open when communicating. To really get close to someone, you have to be sensitive and vulnerable. With some people it turns and my husband, David, of course, among them".
- Where does this fear of being vulnerable?
"This is one of the negative aspects of fame. No one does not consciously decide to be cautious and be alert at all times. When I was young, I was very open person, but fame teaches you to be cautious every second."
- How do you know whether a man likes you?
"Sometimes you know it, and sometimes - not. All people are susceptible to self-denial. All vulnerable, being in relationship where they are being deceived. I am no exception. It's just in human nature."
- But you are different - the rich and famous.
"Yes. My father used to say:"Trust people, but take off the deck by yourself".
- Before you came to David, you had a different relationships
"Something out of this can be considered relationship, something - just an acquaintance."
- Why are these relationships do not have resulted in something more?
"After numerous "experiments" I learned about the following: we must put the red flags. You need to look at these flags and then you stop repeating your own mistakes, when you meet another person. However, look back and ask yourself the question:" Why was I so stupid? Why am I doing? From the outset it is important to make the right decision. If you make a mistake, no matter what you do - all the same things go awry, and you'll be unhappy. In many ways, all about luck. I made the right choice for David. I was lucky. "
- In 1993 when you were still not married, you have adopted a baby?
“I like children very much and I think my desperate desire to have them spoiled all my relationships with men. It made me biased, causing to judge my companions too harshly, or to attribute them extra value. Finally, I thought, "Wait a minute! That I became a mother, not necessarily to have a man close." It was a complete surprise. And when I met David, all the tension disappeared. Thoughts were just how we will succeed with him. And as a bonus, I watched what will the father of David, until he built relationships with Claudia. "
- How did you become an actress?
"I always wanted to make a career. I fell in love with the work as soon as started to work at the age of 14. I remember how my mother insisted that I made a career. Herself she would never work, engaged in the house, and it was important to her child has developed a career. I worked a cashier in a supermarket. It was a good place, but one day a man gave a tantrum about the cost of melons, pierced in his receipt. For me it was a turning point - I looked at the sky and asked myself: "If you could choose, what would it be?" It was acting. Amazing."
- Let's talk about the "Dark shadows." What do you like about this project?
"I remember how I loved this TV show, I literally rushed home from school, so as not to miss, and seconds. So, I really wanted to get into this project, again to appear in Tim Burton and Johnny Depp work with. Once I called Tim and said, "Look, I do not know, do you have for me the role, but I would like it to be." A year, maybe more, and I thought, “That will never happen. But it happened”.
- In the film "Personal things" with Ashton Kutcher in "Cheri" with Rupert Friend your partners are younger than you ...
"Mere children (laughs). They are all younger and younger. From Ashton and Rupert I came down to Zac Efron in "Old New Year". If it goes on, I can finish the movie for adults!"
- What led you to success?
"I do not know it was naive, or narcissism, but I started with the confidence that I could do anything. And I was sure of it, until you realized what got involved, and only then did everything possible so as not to embarrass yourself. I think this is the secret of my success. "