Michelle Pfeiffer opens up about struggles, fears during early career

Washington: American actor Michelle Pfeiffer has had her fair share of ups and downs and recently admitted that she once struggled to gain confidence as a young star in the industry.
The 61-year-old actor revealed that she once feared getting fired from movie roles in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, reported People. “I think it comes from not having a background of formal training, you know, in the beginning,” Pfeiffer said.
“And I think when I started out, a lot of actors were coming out of Juilliard and I was just this young person from Orange County, kind of just getting by on my instincts purely and I think, for the longest time, I felt like it wasn’t really enough and maybe didn’t give me the credibility and maybe because I had to find my technique as I went along,” she added.
She noted that her lack of confidence stemmed from the fact “that I didn’t sort of start from a real secure place.” In 2017, Pfeiffer told director Darren Aronofsky that she felt like “a fraud” while working on movies.
“I have this constant fear that I’m a fraud and that I’m going to be found out. I think that’s because I started working fairly quickly and I wasn’t ready,” she told Aronofsky for Interview magazine.