Another magazine transcript added into PMAGAZINE: Would You Dump This Woman? by Entertainment Weekly, February 8, 2008 — it tells the story behind “I Could Never Be Your Woman“, the Amy Heckerling directed but also direct-to-DVD movie. Which was supposed to be the first Gig of her return at year 2007, after her 4 years break since “White Oleander“.
“In 2005, Michelle pfeiffer shot the Amy Heckerling comedy I Could Never Be Your Woman. Haven’t heard of it? Therelin lies a cautionary tale involving contracts, finger-pointing, an enigmatic Frenchman, hope, despair–and then more despair.
Amy Heckerling sounds demoralized. She’s up against a deadline on her new movie, and she just can’t ”find” the scene she’s working on. She doesn’t mean that in some airy, artsy way. She’s not trying to locate the scene’s heartbeat or distill its essence. No, when Heckerling says she can’t find the scene, she means it literally: She doesn’t know where it is. More than two years ago, she wrote and directed I Could Never Be Your Woman, a romantic comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd. The movie is finally set for a Feb. 12 release, and Heckerling has spent the past few weeks hunting for a previously deleted sequence that, apparently, no longer exists. ”I had to go through all my old dailies until I found the crappy, unmixed, undigitized version,” she says. ”I don’t even know why I bother. The missing elements? Who the f— knows where they are? The company lost them. BY MISSY SCHWARTZ…” Read More after the JUMP!
Alan
I had dismissed this movie as a less than a best effort the first time that I saw it (I was influenced by the fact that it went straight to DVD)and was multi-tasking at the time. I saw it a second time last night and was taken with it. Michelle, dressed in jeans and wearing very casual clothing and with tousled hair was devastatingly beautiful. The bright lighting of the movie might have been unforgiving to other actresses but Michelle offered nothing to forgive. Michelle showed her love of children in this movie. She and Paul Rudd had great on screen chemistry and appeared to have much fun with their teasing good humor. No wonder Rudd along with Jeff Bridges (unforgettable chemistry)showed up to honor Michelle when her star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of fame. I agree with Richard Roeper that this movie is ,”…much better than a lot of stuff playing in theaters.” Michelle never gives less than a best effort.
MorrisseyBond
Although it’s not any masterpiece at all, I’m happy that Michelle chose the project she really likes and connected with, as you said the mother/daughter love and…aging issue, and that’s what make it meaningful to her as a person and an actress, there are much more so called “famous” actress making tons of commercial silly movies out there.