ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Star Michelle Pfeiffer Reveals Biggest Challenge Of Working With Marvel Studios

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Star Michelle Pfeiffer Reveals Biggest Challenge Of Working With Marvel Studios

Ant-Man and The Wasp star Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns) has shared some insights into the main challenge of working with Marvel Studios and what it's like to have the script change during shooting.

By JoshWilding - Apr 08, 2022 08:04 AM EST

It's no secret that Marvel Studios often makes it up as they go along when it comes to their movies and TV shows, with the script potentially in flux right until the moment shooting finishes. It's an approach to storytelling we've seen pay off for the MCU on countless occasions at this stage, but it's fair to say that it doesn't always prove the easiest environment to adapt to for actors. 

During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, Ant-Man and The Wasp star Michelle Pfeiffer shared some of the biggest challenges she's been presented with since joining the MCU.

"[Marvel Studios is] very mysterious, and they’re very secretive, of course, with their storylines. It’s a little hard because I met with [director] Peyton [Reed], and I knew a little bit about the character, but there was no script. You have to commit without actually having read anything."

"It wouldn’t have mattered because it all changes anyway," Pfeiffer continued. "You don’t really know what you’re getting into, and then you get a script right before you start shooting, and then it changes every day. And then you shoot the movie, and you wrap, and then it changes again."

The actress would go on to admit that this was particularly difficult for her, as she struggles with improvisation and having to go off the shooting script she's given (we know of at least a few MCU movies where cameras started rolling when there was no third act in place at that time). 

Pfeiffer didn't share any new intel on Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, but it's still interesting to hear these insights from someone who's been thrown into the thick of Marvel Studios' way of filmmaking.

Check out the full interview in the player below:
 

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GirshwinDavies
GirshwinDavies - 4/8/2022, 4:43 PM
@TheWalkingCuban - A million times forever yes. Ughhhh she so fine.
Whaley87
Whaley87 - 4/8/2022, 9:14 AM
She is still a walking goddess! Stunning. Can't wait to see more of her as Janet.
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 4/8/2022, 9:14 AM
This is honestly one of the biggest problems not just with Marvel, but with the big studios in general these days. This was always a present problem, but the era of uber-digitalization has made it even easier for studios to aggressively tinker and change the movies all the way up to the release date.

That's how you get ridiculous things like the CGI time travel suits from Endgame or the box from NWH. New tech is letting CGI micro-manage things like never before. At best it results in work that feels weightless and insincere, at worse you have actors and directors seeing a movie on screen that's completely different from what they thought they were in.
CinemaJackXCI
CinemaJackXCI - 4/8/2022, 9:16 AM
caring
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 4/8/2022, 10:02 AM
It’s a security measure they have to take due to loose lips.



TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 4/8/2022, 11:06 AM
@slickrickdesigns - l can’t wait for Armor Wars, and the one with Riri, Armor Wives
CyberBishop
CyberBishop - 4/8/2022, 11:53 AM
@slickrickdesigns - Exactly
Deadinside
Deadinside - 4/8/2022, 12:47 PM
@slickrickdesigns - lol...I love Ruffalo's reaction when Cheadle says, "Dude..."!
GirshwinDavies
GirshwinDavies - 4/8/2022, 4:45 PM
@slickrickdesigns - I still cannot believe that he did that
TheSuperMex
TheSuperMex - 4/8/2022, 10:21 AM
I hope they make Janet a villain. Spending decades in the microverse and she doesn’t have consequences for it? All she gets is superpowers and nothing negative from that is a shame.
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 4/8/2022, 10:27 AM
I would still do just about anything to her...with her consent of course!
Vanillain
Vanillain - 4/8/2022, 10:33 AM
She a fine wine
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 4/8/2022, 10:33 AM
Based on the specifics of his tweets, I'm pretty sure this is why Derrickson left Strange 2. Marvel has become highly accustomed to starting productions without a finalized script, and some people don't have as easy a time with that. I'm sure their approach to that has been a big part of why their universe works so well, but I imagine some movies have suffered from being too reliant on a highly fluid production process
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 4/8/2022, 11:48 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - Yeah, compromises definitely have to be made to do what they do. You can't have that frequency of output if you aren't moving at a pretty intense speed. Plus they're coordinating between different writers and directors on different projects that overlap while setting up for future stories that are also being figured out as they go. The fact that they achieve the standard of quality they do is pretty remarkable. They're definitely not perfect and drop the ball sometimes, but they produce better movies under these circumstances than many franchises do without the same challenges.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 4/8/2022, 1:31 PM
@BIGBMH - yea, the fact that they are this chaotic and somehow also consistently producing good/great movies is crazy, bit my hope is that they are able find some projects that can have that extra touch of inflexibility that produces equally good results
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 4/9/2022, 12:00 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - I think Derrickson left because of Scarlet Witch and The Multiverse. And Marvel would send him documents with what they demanded included in the film as more projects came to light and he just got fed up with the changes consistently altering his vision.
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 4/11/2022, 7:42 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - I agree. It'd be cool to see what they could do. Right now, just about everything pretty much has to come out at a certain time to introduce someone or cue something up. It'd be nice to see occasional projects that aren't necessarily set in the present and don't need to fit perfectly as a puzzle piece in some grand arc. Just in-canon stories that expand on the world. Sort of like how Star Wars does stories at various points in time.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 4/8/2022, 11:02 AM
So nothing new here
CasualAF
CasualAF - 4/8/2022, 11:10 AM
Must have been hard to improvise the 4 lines she had in the whole movie. The struggle is real.
Blergh
Blergh - 4/8/2022, 1:08 PM
If this was any other studio we'd call their movies utter messes and terrible trife. But somehow Marvel has managed to make these constant changes work (seemingly) for the better.
Can't put my finger on it but they just do SOMETHING behind the scenes that works

LukeCage2155
LukeCage2155 - 4/8/2022, 11:19 PM
Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 4/9/2022, 6:58 AM
I think that's dumb.

They are only superhero movies not a Masonic Lodge.
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