I liked sort of poking fun at searching for eternal youth and the lengths to which women will go to get it and the sort of desperate need to hold onto it. Looking for the comedy in it was a big selling point for me. But I admit, the makeup process was not fun.

I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects! To be honest, it was upsetting, but I got over it pretty quickly. I never really got used to the half-age sort of, you know, my face and then the other half was the aged face. That was freaky to me—even more freakish than the oldest makeup.

–Michelle Pfeiffer opens up to Parade on the trials and tribulations of playing evil and ugly.