Maybe there’s one good screenplay in me! But I see how all-consuming it is for directors you really have to be prepared for that, and I’m not quite prepared for that yet.”Ī self-confessed “total geek” with a broad range of favourite TV shows, she takes time out to praise HBO’s Girls, written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, 25. “I am interested in writing, but I’m not a very good writer. And now that the kids are older, a lot of my creative energy went into them, they don’t need me so much anymore, so I gotta put it somewhere.”Īs she becomes more selective in the roles she chooses, I wonder aloud if there are other aspects of filmmaking that appeal to Pfeiffer.
You know, whenever we’d start building Lego, I’d get really obsessive: ‘Hey, that’s my piece! I need that piece for my house!’ I think that painting, when not acting - which is always my first choice - it really fills a gap for me. I loved it when the kids were little, because I’d get into an art project with them and of course I’d end up finishing it. I feel the need to always be creating something. I’m not good with idle time I’m not good with not being productive. I ask if she still paints in her downtime, surely a meditative activity, and she nods. A long-time analysand, in 2009 Pfeiffer described herself as “controlling” who would live like “a hermit” if given the chance. It’s the only glitch in her carefully composed public persona, one that hints at a more complicated inner-life than those blue eyes let on. Throughout our interview (shared with another journalist, who insists on asking inane questions like “What do you sing in the shower?” and “Who killed Kennedy?”), Pfeiffer fiddles with a teardrop-shaped marquesite ring, removing it and putting it back on, twisting and turning it.
So, as it turned out, there was a long stretch there where I didn’t work because I couldn’t quite get that all to work.” “And then when they became of school age and I couldn’t just uproot them - and I was unwilling to - I really tried to take jobs that either didn’t take me away for a long period of time, or that I could do during the summer. “It’s not like I said ‘Oh, I’m going to take a four-year hiatus’, it’s just that as it turned out, we made a huge move out of Los Angeles, a huge resettlement, and I think I just underestimated the needs of the family,” she recalls. Kelley, and their two children, Claudia Rose and John Henry - from Los Angeles to Northern California. From 2003 to 2007, Pfeiffer removed herself - along with her husband, writer/producer David E. If her fame has guaranteed her the luxury of choice, her personal life has ensured that those choices are carefully considered. I’m just always looking for good material.” That’s what I really love, to really lose yourself in something. “I feel like I did more of it earlier on. “I love that I’m getting back to ,” she says with a genuine enthusiasm. It’s true, Pfeiffer is still captivatingly beautiful - her wide-set eyes, the colour of Wedgewood stoneware, and feline pout even more arresting in real life than on screen - but the actress has relaxed into her features, using them as a tool of character rather than visual effect. Īt the age of 54 in an industry that prizes youth, such choices are perhaps not surprising. Recently, her work has explored what happens when beauty fades, or is no longer currency: the nightmarish stage-mother and ex-beauty-queen Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray (‘07), the youth-craving witch Lamia in Stardust (‘07), Colette’s ageing courtesan, Léa, in Chéri (‘09), and this year she peers out from behind the broom-thick false lashes of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, in Tim Burton’s big screen revival of the 1960s “gothic soap opera”, Dark Shadows. She fought hard to move beyond the “pretty face” roles that typified her early work.
CLAUDIA ROSE PFEIFFER FULL
The “character actress in a screen siren’s body”, Pfeiffer’s physical beauty is the full stop (or, maybe, question mark) that has always followed her name.
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