{"id":148307,"date":"2025-11-22T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148307\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:48:14","slug":"michelle-pfeiffer-plans-to-take-most-of-2026-off-to-be-a-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148307\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Pfeiffer plans to take most of 2026 off to be a grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/michelle-pfeiffers-resurgence-80s-icon-unhirable-most-beautiful-woman-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a> is excited about next year, so she can spend the time being a loving and attentive grandmother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">During an interview with Fox News Digital, Pfeiffer \u2013 who was joined by her &#8220;Oh. What. Fun.&#8221; co-star, Felicity Jones \u2013 discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/lifestyle\/parenting\/family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">becoming a grandma<\/a> for the first time last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She made the announcement back in September, but didn&#8217;t reveal many details about the new little one at the time. Pfeiffer told Fox News Digital that her daughter, Claudia Rose Pfeiffer, was her child that welcomed a baby in 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/michellepfeiffer.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Pfeiffer smiling while wearing a silver gown\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh. What. Fun.&#8217; star Michelle Pfeiffer is excited about next year, so she can spend the time being a loving and attentive grandmother. (Tim P. Whitby\/Getty Images\/for 21st Century Fox)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I mean, look, I am feeling very blessed for the opportunities that are presenting themselves to me and loving the work. I&#8217;ve been like working with incredible cast members in all three things that I&#8217;ve done recently. Great directors, great material. However, little did I know my daughter was planning on getting pregnant, which she did successfully,&#8221; Pfeiffer said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/michelle-pfeiffer-says-being-grandmother-made-fall-love-acting-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MICHELLE PFEIFFER SAYS BEING A GRANDMOTHER MADE HER FALL IN LOVE WITH ACTING AGAIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pfeiffer said that her priorities have shifted now that she&#8217;s a grandmother, and she plans on not working as much in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote-text\">&#8220;So I think I&#8217;m going to have probably most of next year off, which I&#8217;m really looking forward to. Look, it&#8217;s an embarrassment of riches, honestly. It&#8217;s like, \u2018wah.\u2019 I&#8217;m just really wanting my choices and the way I spend my time \u2014 whatever time I have left \u2014 to spend it meaningfully is what I&#8217;m focusing on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Michelle Pfeiffer<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And lo and behold, here I am working a lot. So I think I&#8217;m going to have probably most of next year off, which I&#8217;m really looking forward to. Look, it&#8217;s an embarrassment of riches, honestly. It&#8217;s like, \u2018wah.\u2019 I&#8217;m just really wanting my choices and the way I spend my time \u2014 whatever time I have left \u2014 to spend it meaningfully is what I&#8217;m focusing on,&#8221; Pfeiffer said.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Michelle Pfeiffer &#8216;looking forward&#8217; to having most of 2026 off to focus on being a grandmother: \u2018It&#8217;s an embarrassment of riches\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pfeiffer is a mom to two kids. She adopted her daughter, Claudia Rose, shortly before her marriage to husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/michelle-pfeiffer-makes-risky-move-marriage-husband-david-e-kelley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David E. Kelley<\/a>. The two welcomed their son, John Henry Kelley II, in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4hoietIe9A8lkvxTNCugP5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SmartLess<\/a>&#8221; podcast in September, Pfeiffer said that becoming a grandmother has been &#8220;heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/michelle-pfeiffer-leads-yellowstone-spin-off-the-madison-what-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MICHELLE PFEIFFER LEADS \u2018YELLOWSTONE&#8217; SPINOFF \u2018THE MADISON\u2019: WHAT TO KNOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/michelle-pfeiffer-family.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Pfeiffer with her husband and two kids\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Michelle Pfeiffer, daughter Claudia Rose, son John Henry, and husband writer\/producer David E. Kelley in 2007. (Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have time nor the desire to go that deep for that long and not be present. I realize I have a finite amount of time left and \u2014 I might announce on this show \u2014 that I became a grandmother last year. I&#8217;ve been very quiet about it and it is \u2014 it&#8217;s heaven. It&#8217;s ridiculous,&#8221; she said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Pfeiffer added, &#8220;And if I had known that I was going to be a grandmother, I wouldn&#8217;t have taken on so much work, but I&#8217;ve enjoyed everything and I&#8217;m really grateful. I&#8217;ve loved \u2014 I love each of these projects. And so the weird thing is that giving up that angst about the process has freed me up and I feel in some ways has made me better.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the projects she was referring to is her new Christmas movie, &#8220;Oh What Fun,&#8221; which she stars in alongside Jones. The movie stars Claire Clauster (Pfeiffer) who is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together every holiday season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OH. WHAT. FUN. will be available globally on Prime Video on December 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/michelle-pfeiffer-star-yellowstone-spinoff-madison-excited-this\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MICHELLE PFEIFFER TO STAR IN \u2018YELLOWSTONE\u2019 SPINOFF \u2018THE MADISON\u2019: EXCITED FOR THIS!&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ohwf_2025_static2x3_christmascollage_2000x3000_pre_pv_final_en-us_kaps-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Oh What Fun movie poster\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh. What. Fun&#8221; is available to stream globally on Prime Video on Dec. 3. (Amazon Studios)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Oh.\u00a0What.\u00a0Fun&#8217;.\u00a0is a spirited holiday comedy that honors and celebrates every overworked holiday host,&#8221; a synopsis of the movie said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During her interview with Fox News Digital, Pfeiffer said she didn&#8217;t plan on starring in a holiday film this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t actually foresee me being in a holiday, Christmas movie. Michael Showalter, I&#8217;m a huge fan and felt so excited and blessed that he wanted to work with me, and then I read the script. I thought, \u2018wow.\u2019 I thought it&#8217;s like really this love letter to moms,&#8221; Pfeiffer said, explaining that this movie highlights mothers who put in a lot of effort to make the holiday season memorable for their families.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/michelle-pfeiffer-ohwf.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Pfeiffer in Oh What Fun\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Claire Clauster in &#8220;Oh. What. Fun.&#8221; (Amazon Studios)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This movie is celebrating those women,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And it never even occurred to me that we weren&#8217;t getting the credit that we\u2026 because you grow up with it. You see your mother doing it, she saw her mother doing it, and you don&#8217;t really question it. You just assume that role. And I know I have, and by the way, so much joy in doing it. But it&#8217;s nice to get acknowledged for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh What Fun&#8221; is Jones&#8217; first holiday film, a step away from her usual roles like &#8220;The Brutalist&#8221; or &#8220;Inferno.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones told Fox News Digital the emotional arc in the movie immediately drew her in. &#8220;Well, the script was excellent. It had all the humor that you would want from a Christmas film but also had the emotional arc and I thought it was really interesting,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Felicity Jones discusses her first holiday movie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so rare that you see a film about a mother-daughter relationship. It felt very refreshing to see that. And then there was just something\u2026 I just really loved that family. I thought they were really endearing and quite an amazing family in the sense that they&#8217;re close enough that they can argue with each other. You know, if they didn&#8217;t have that closeness, they wouldn&#8217;t be able to be as snarky with each other, but actually, they&#8217;re an incredibly loving family. They&#8217;re just figuring it out as most families are,&#8221; Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh. What. Fun&#8221; stars Pfeiffer, Jones, Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz, Denis Leary, Dominic Sessa, Danielle Brooks, Devery Jacobs, Havana Rose Liu, Maude Apatow, Jason Schwartzman, Eva Longoria and Joan Chen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Larry Fink contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>Janelle Ash is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/mailto:janelle.ash@fox.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">janelle.ash@fox.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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