‘I have two perfect children. I am very happily married and these are things I wasn't sure I was going to have. I have a great career and I feel very lucky. The children have taught me things. I'm probably less controlling that I used to be. You have to be -- you have to take things less seriously than I used to. Kids teach you that -- they laugh in your face. ‘Physically, I'm just a wreck. I'm so tired all the time but that will pass. I always think that one day he will be in college and I'll be wishing I was feeding him at 2am . ‘Motherhood has definitely changed my outlook. You always feel you should be with your children. No matter how much time you spend with them when you are away from them you feel you should be with them.' And that's what killed ‘Evita' for her. She spent several months making ‘Up Close and Personal' -- she plays a journalist -- with Redford and her sister and the movie will open in the New Year. ‘Evita' would have involved even more commitment. ‘It was really a life choice. There are career choices and there are life choices. This was a life choice. I am very disappointed that things didn't work out. Oh, yeah, I'm very disappointed. ‘I would have had to have been out of the country for probably three or four months. Prior to that I would have spent another three or four months rehearsing, training my voice, prerecording, not seeing my children, and it just felt like it was too much for me to do on the heel of the movie I've just finished which was another four month commitment. ‘It was very difficult. I really wanted to do the film. ‘It just felt like the wrong thing to do right now.' Instead later next year she plans a film with Jessica Lange titled ‘A Thousand Anchors' and as you might expect there are a string of others on offer. She smiles:' I still think I've two or three films left in me.' One is likely to be ‘Catwoman' a role which she patented in ‘Batman Returns'. She has established herself as one of Hollywood 's major high-profile players. Suddenly, with our communications village millions more see her sister Dedee every week on ‘Cybill' which is proving a ratings winner around the globe. The big screen Vs the small screen. Which is more powerful? Had her fame changed her family dynamic? She puts on her porcelain, untouchable look:‘Off the top of my head I think no.' Then a much mellower Michelle Pfeiffer says with some pride: ‘My sister is an actress too and she's very successful. ‘ ‘I'm not the only one.' Sisters? Yes. And they don't tear their hair out anymore. That's, of course, until they find themselves in competition for the same major movie. Possibly then the fur will fly again.
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