Overview
- This week Michelle Pfeiffer told Entertainment Weekly she left her Grease 2 audition “feeling so humiliated” after a chaotic, crowded casting session.
- She described the audition as a cattle call with thin walls, saying she was not a singer or dancer and that she “stumbled” through the dance portion.
- As she walked away across the Paramount lot, an assistant—believed to be director Pat Birch’s—ran after her to say she had been called back.
- That callback led to Pfeiffer winning the role of Stephanie Zinone in the 1982 film, a part that critics and fans now view as her breakout.
- The anecdote is used to underline how unpredictable casting can be, to humanize early career struggles, and to draw attention to her later successes and current projects.