10 Actors Who Improved At Something They Were Terrible At

While Matthew McConaughey struggled to turn down generic rom-com paydays, Michelle Pfeiffer had quite the opposite "problem," in that she's a famously picky actress who, by her own admission, is awful at committing to parts.

By the early 2000s, Pfeiffer's career entered something of a downturn, and between 2003 and 2013, she averaged just a single role per year, many of them as small supporting parts or voiceovers. Hell, between 2003 and 2007 she didn't appear in a single film.

And while doing press for 2017's mother!, Pfeiffer admitted that she's been extremely selective about the roles she accepts, and that this pickiness caused her career to stall:

"I was pretty careful about where I shot, how long I was away, whether or not it worked out with the kids' schedule. And I got so picky that I was unhirable. And then... I don't know, time just went on."

But since mother!, Pfeiffer has enjoyed something of a mainstream career comeback, starring in Murder on the Orient Express, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, French Exit (for which she received a Golden Globe nod), and the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Pfeiffer stated that in recent years she's become more open-minded to parts that she would've turned down in the past:

"I'm more open now, my frame of mind, because I really want to work now, because I can. And these last few years I've had some really interesting opportunities."

No lies detected, Michelle.