Michelle Pfeiffer interview: the Hollywood icon on anxiety, ageing and being who she is

Michelle Pfeiffer is broken. Literally. Her wrist is bound in a black splint, which she wags in gesticulation and which looks heavy on her slim arm, as if made of concrete. She broke it stepping out of a marble bath (in my mind, Pfeiffer is endlessly stepping out of marble baths) and onto a marble floor (which we both agree is too much marble). “I wasn’t in a hurry,” she says. “It was a slippery marble floor and I was getting out of the bathtub and I looked at the floor and said, ‘Slippery floor, be careful, mental note!’ And I had one foot out and down I went.” Oh, Michelle. “And I knew immediately, of course,” she continues. “I broke my fall with my