by Nathaniel R
Jane Campion and Michelle Pfeiffer embracing in New Zealand
Thanks to the twitter pfan account LaPfeiffer for alerting us to this but Michelle Pfeiffer was recently spotted in New Zealand hiking with her husband David E Kelley and... (gulp) Jane Campion, only one of the greatest living filmmakers. But why was she there...?
Naturally we went straight to ultimate pfantasy: Michelle starring in a Jane Campion picture! Campion's feature films have all featured exceptionally complicated female lead roles and seeing Pfeiffer dig into one of those would be bliss.
The truth is surely less exciting.
The Daily Mail, which I hear is not exactly a bastion of fact-checking journalism, says the jaunt was merely a vacation but how do Campion and Pfeiffer even know each other?
If it was business related perhaps it was business on Kelley's end. (He and Pfeiffer do not generally work together). He works almost exclusively in television and Campion herself has been spending more time on TV (see Top of the Lake) than in film (her last picture was the exquisite Bright Star, 2009). But if this does lead to a pfuture Pfeiffer/Campion collaboration we would like to purchase tickets today very much thank you.