Oh What Fun Michelle Pfeiffer interview

It wasn't exactly Christmas weather, but uh it was wonderful. I I've I just love doing these ensemble movies and, you know, working with ensemble casts. It's so much more fun. Um and such not only are they all so smart and hilarious but great great humans. 

It's um wacky and um sentimental and um entertaining. I have uh a lot of uh Claire in me. I overdo every holiday. Uh try a little too hard. Um and then, you know, complain about why I'm so exhausted. You know, you know, complain that you're not getting the help, but then if anybody offers, you're like, "No, no, I'm fine. I got it." So, um I I'm I'm I'm a lot like Claire. 

This is a film about um you know, the unsung heroes and that and that is moms, and um particularly around the holiday, but it's really all year round. It's they really are the glue in every family. It's not that, you know, other people don't do anything, but um uh but speaking generally, um moms are. And so it's really a love letter to them. And um maybe um open open the eyes of some family members and um maybe look at your mom in a different way. 

You know, just hold each other close and it's really um um and I think honestly, that is uh the most important thing in life is is family and and the people in your life. Amazing. He's um he's so talented and so funny himself. So collaborative. I think he's the most collaborative director that I've ever worked with. Uh and you know, he's he's so gifted at doing so many different kinds of genres, you know? And I read this and I thought, "Ooh, this in the wrong hands could could go like south." But I knew that it was in the right hands with him, and that gave me the freedom to just kind of take all sorts of chances that that I wouldn't have otherwise taken. 

We always open um a present on um Christmas Eve, and um uh I think that's probably the thing that we do every year that everybody gets excited about. And, you know, we get together with family, and usually we spend Christmas Day at my sister's house, we spend Thanksgiving at my house. Sometimes we uh shake it up a little bit.