Michelle Pfeiffer Was Asked to Reveal Her Weight and Fans Quickly Came to Her Defense

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Eventually, Pfeiffer got a chance to open up about other aspects of the film, too. She addressed the criticism of her character Elvira and the film’s implicit message to women, telling the crowd, “I remember at the time, even then—I got a lot of questions about, ‘You’re playing someone who’s subservient. What message is that sending to women?’ And I was also in my early 20s; I hadn’t actually thought about it a lot of the time. Being an artist, it’s really presenting to people what is the truth and not sugarcoated, and I felt that by allowing people to observe who this character is and the sacrifices that she’s made said more than getting up on any soapbox and preaching to people.”