Michelle Pfeiffer on Coming Full Circle With Dakota Fanning in 'The First Lady' (Exclusive)
etonline.comMichelle Pfeiffer is in awe of Dakota Fanning. The 63-year-old actress met the budding actress when she was just 6 years old as co-stars on , and some two decades later they've come full circle on .While at the red carpet premiere for the Showtime scripted anthology series, Pfeiffer recalled to ET's Nischelle Turner about meeting Fanning as a little girl when they teamed up for the 2001 melodrama film, which also starred Sean Penn.«She turned seven on and I bought her a Barbie Winnebago,» Pfeiffer recalled. «And I remember playing Barbies in her camper with she and Elle.
And she turned 27 on the set of .» was Dakota's first film, and she'd go on to earn more acclaim just a few years later, starring opposite Denzel Washington in.
All these years later, Pfeiffer wondered about Dakota's journey in Hollywood and her coming of age.«I was so curious to see the kind of grownup that she had become,» Pfeiffer said, «and was oh so pleasantly surprised in a way.», premiering Sunday on Showtime, is a 10-episode series created by Aaron Cooley.
The star-studded cast includes Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Dakota as Ford's daughter, Susan Elizabeth.
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