The season finale of Margo’s Got Money Troubles airs tonight on Apple TV, and series star Michelle Pfeiffer has revealed the most demanding and difficult part of her role on the show.
“How to get my boobs to look big,” Pfeiffer says. “It's just the truth. I didn't want to go through three hours of prosthetics because I only had this to work with. And so literally the cleavage that you see is my entire boob. And I built around that and that is just the God's honest truth.”
I spoke to Pfeiffer and her on-screen husband Greg Kinnear exclusively in the run-up to tonight’s episode and Pfeiffer says that, beyond the heavy subject matter and performing in some pretty gut-wrenching scenes, her biggest challenge was of a more, well, pressing nature.
But Pfeiffer wasn’t totally without resources in her struggle. It seems another celebrity’s well-known product came to the rescue in Pfeiffer’s hour of need.
“The Kim Kardashian nipple bra was great,” Pfeiffer says. “I found that right before our love scene. I said, ‘Nipples. I need nipples.’”
“I had no idea I was going to hear Michelle Pfeiffer say this today in an interview,” Kinnear adds. “But you wake up every day and showbiz and you never know.”
Margo’s Got Money Troubles follows the titular Margo (Elle Fanning) who finds herself out of work and with a baby, trying to make ends meet by starting an OnlyFans. Pfeiffer plays her mother, Shyanne, and Kinnear portrays Shyanne’s goody goody fiancé, Kenny.
Despite the physical and wardrobe challenges of the show, both Kinnear and Pfeiffer are looking forward to Season 2, which was recently confirmed by Apple TV.
“I can't spoil anything because I know nothing,” Pfeiffer says. “I have no idea and I wouldn't even begin to guess what these writers have planned. They're going to cook something up we never would've thought of.”
For his part, Kinnear hopes that he gets more screentime with co-star Nick Offerman, who plays Margo’s ex-professional-wrestler father Jinx, when the new season arrives.
“[In Season 1] I wish we had done more than stare each other down in a few scenes,” Kinnear says. "We joke a lot about — if we ever get another shot at this, Nick's got this idea that Kenny and the Jinx are in a safe room.”
“You could get stuck in an elevator,” Pfeiffer adds.
“It was great fun to work with him,” Kinnear says. "He's such a gentleman and lovely in the show. But there is this underlying sense of distrust. I have it with Kurt Russell too, who's on an entirely different show [The Madison, also starring Pfeiffer] and sent Michelle a photograph from a couple days ago when he and I were together. I said, ‘Michelle, there's a lot of questions about which is your favorite husband.’ And she wrote back, ‘Why do I have to choose?’”
From the physical transformation she endured to the realistic relationships she portrays with both Kinnear and Offerman on screen, Pfeiffer said that getting the chance to play Shyanne was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. When I asked her if she thought the character deserved a spot on her career Hall of Fame — which also includes such notable characters as Scarface’s Elvira Hancock and Batman Returns' Catwoman / Selina Kyle, Pfeiffer got introspective.
“What I love about all these characters is it's so easy to judge someone by the way they look, the makeup they wear, the clothes they wear, the job they have, the community they live in, the choices they've made in life,” Pfeiffer says. “It's really easy to judge a character like Shyanne and I didn't. I admire her grit. I admire how bold she is, her sass. I really love her.”
Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment at IGN, leading entertainment content and coverage of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years working in the games and entertainment industry, and his adventures have taken him everywhere from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him on Bluesky @MichaelPeyton
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