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Michelle Pfeiffer<\/a> has a serious claim to being one of the coolest actors of all time. Something about her screen presence just screams \u2018icon\u2019, the way she carries herself is something that you simply cannot teach. She\u2019s seldom in a bad film and almost never gives a bad performance; a rare feat even among the most elite Hollywood names.\u00a0<\/p>\n Moviegoers of a certain age will have a hard time forgetting her spin as Selina Kyle\/Catwoman in Batman Returns, in which she stole the show opposite Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito. She showed everybody how to properly use a piano in The Fabulous Baker Boys and played the perfect mob wife in Brian De Palma\u2019s Scarface. Grease 2 might not be everyone\u2019s cup of tea, but Pfeiffer\u2019s portrayal of cool chick Stephanie Zinone is a highlight. As it turns out, she doesn\u2019t even need to be in a movie to have an impact on it. <\/p>\n Thelma & Louise is widely regarded as a feminist classic. The tale of two women, one a repressed housewife, one a free spirit, going on a road trip and finding themselves in the process is just as resonant now as it was when it first hit cinemas in 1991. Some of you might be surprised to learn that a film like this was directed by a man \u2013 Sir Ridley Scott, to be precise. However, he very nearly wasn\u2019t the one behind the camera.<\/p>\n \u201cI was going to be the producer,\u201d Scott confessed to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cI offered it to four people. They all turned it down. And while I was doing that, I was interviewing actors, actresses, and one of them said to me, \u2018Listen, I can\u2019t do this, I\u2019m not going to be available. I wanted to meet, good script and everything. So why don\u2019t you come to your senses and you direct it?\u2019 So, that was Michelle Pfeiffer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Pfeiffer was originally going to co-star in the film alongside Jodie Foster, although it\u2019s not clear who would have played who. Foster would drop out to play Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, arguably her most famous role. Conversely, Pfeiffer left to take a part in the film Love Field. She was nominated for an Oscar for it, but the film has had far less of a cultural impact than Thelma & Louise. After both Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn couldn\u2019t do it, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were cast instead, and the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n The trio of Scott, Davis, and Sarandon were perfect for this tale of action, adventure, and female friendship. The acclaim it received at the time it was released \u2013 it was nominated six times at the Oscars, winning \u2018Best Original Screenplay\u2019 \u2013 is nothing compared to how it is held up over three decades later. Pfeiffer herself has admitted she cannot watch the film<\/a>, as she finds it too painful to think about what might have been.<\/p>\n