Michelle Pfeiffer was 'pleasantly surprised' to work with Dakota Fanning after a 20-year break

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She stars opposite Dakota Fanning in the upcoming Showtime historical drama series The First Lady.And Michelle Pfeiffer shared that she was 'pleasantly surprised' to be reunited with the 28-year-old actress after first working together 20 years earlier.The 63-year-old Academy Award nominee spoke to ET on Thursday about working with Dakota again after helping the actress make her feature debut in 2001's I Am Sam.

Reunited: Michelle Pfeiffer, 63, told ET on Thursday that she was 'pleasantly surprised' to reunite with Dakota Fanning, 28, on the set of The First Lady after they worked together on 2001's I Am Sam; seen Thursday in LAMichelle appeared in that film as a hotshot lawyer, but she and Dakota are now playing the mother and daughter duo of Betty and Susan Ford in the political drama series.Michelle admitted on the red carpet of the First Lady premiere in Los Angeles that she was 'curious' to see how the now-adult Dakota had matured since they last worked together. 'She turned seven on I Am Sam and I bought her a Barbie Winnebago,' Michelle recalled. 'I remember playing Barbies in her camper with she and [her sister] Elle.

And she turned 27 on the set of First Lady. I was so curious to see the kind of grownup that she had become and was oh-so-pleasantly surprised in a way.'I Am Sam stars Sean Penn as the title character, an intellectually disabled man who is forced to take over parenting duties of his daughter (Dakota) after her mother — a homeless woman that he had a brief relationship with — abandons her.