Michelle Pfeiffer didn’t set out to be one of this year’s Emmy contender overachievers. It was simply a bit of serendipity — and unexpected timing — that led her Paramount+ drama “The Madison” and Apple TV comedic hour-long “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” to come out around the same time.
Add in the recent Prime Video original holiday movie “Oh. What. Fun,” also eligible this Emmy season, and that puts Pfeiffer in the unique position of having projects on three different streamers simultaneously eligible in the drama, comedy and limited series/anthology/TV movie acting categories.
“Oh wow,” she tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast, still surprised at the coincidence. “What happened?”
Here’s how it played out: At first, Pfeiffer was in discussions with Taylor Sheridan about joining his new family drama “The Madison,” about a New York socialite who drops everything and moves to her late husband’s Montana cabin when he dies in a plane accident.
“But that hadn’t gone very far in any sort of negotiations when I read this book that David had given me, and I fell in love with the character of Shyanne,” Pfeiffer says. The book was Rufi Thorpe’s “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” and “David” is Pfeiffer’s husband, TV producer David E. Kelley.
