James Lipton, the late legendary host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio’, was a declared Michelle Pfeiffer admirer. Since the show first aired in 1994, he never missed an opportunity to ask actors or directors from her filmography: “What was it like to work with Michelle Pfeiffer?”. Here we can see: Matthew Broderick (“Ladyhawke”); Alec Baldwin (“Married to the Mob”); Mike Nichols (“Wolf”); Martin Scorsese (“The Age of Innocence”); Jeff Bridges (“The Fabulous Baker Boys”); and Jodie Foster (on the casting of “The Silence of the Lambs”). Later on, in 2007, he had the opportunity to receive Pfeiffer as a guest on the show.

00:00 Matthew Broderick (S2E3, 1995)
03:17 Alec Baldwin (S1E2, 1994)
04:14 Martin Scorsese (S9E6, 2002)
05:02 Jeff Bridges (S9E17, 2003)
07:44 Jodie Foster (S11E21, 2005)

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*Mike Nichols segment (S3E8, 1995) was cut due to copyright.
Here is the transcription:
James Lipton: I will ask you about a fascinating movie, in which two great actors appear, that is called “Wolf”. I will ask you only, please, to talk to me for one minute about someone who fascinates me. That’s Michelle Pfeiffer! She is perhaps the most beautiful woman in film. She’s also an amazingly good actor!
Mike Nichols: Very good actor! She is just the thing that you dream of. She is somebody who is there on time, friendly and kind to everyone. She knows what she’s going to do. I mean, she knows her lines and she’s open to whatever is happening. She is a true actress.
James Lipton: She is somebody who could do, I think, nearly anything.
Mike Nichols: You know, it’s very hard nowadays to photograph people the way they used to be photographed. Cause nobody has the time. And because nobody has the time there are very few DPs left who can do what the great DPs (directors of photography) could do before with light. And it would take hours and hours and hours to make Rita Hayworth look like that, and Dietrich, and so forth. The startling thing about Michelle is she looks like that when nobody’s done it.

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