Michelle Pfeiffer Says Al Pacino Had Her ‘Terrified’ While Filming ‘Scarface'
Tony Montana’s little friend left Michelle Pfeiffer terrified.
The actress recalled her time making the popular flick “Scarface” and told Interview Magazine that she would come home crying after filming.
“I can tell you that I was terrified. And it was a six-month shoot I think. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and I were really the only females. It was a boys’ club,” she told the mag.
“And it was also the nature of the relationship, for Tony Montana (Al Pacino) to be very dismissive of my character. So I would go to sleep some nights crying.”
Pfeiffer, 58, found her breakout role in “Scarface” as Tony Montana’s trophy wife — but it certainly wasn’t easy.
“How’d it happen?” she questioned. “I’m very willful, you know. I’m a survivor. It’s in my nature. I don’t look so tough, but I am. And I think I was able to hide behind the tough exterior of that character, who was just sort of tuned out and tuned off, drugged.”
Since then, she’s been taking it slow and been pretty picky with her roles as she put her two children first.
But now she’s making a comeback.
The “Dangerous Minds” actress is set to star in Darron Aronofsky’s “Mother!,” Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, and HBO’s “The Wizard of Lies.”
Universal Pictures just announced it is planning a “Scarface” reboot due out in 2018, but casting has yet to be completed.