Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992)

OH MY!!!!

This one mostly for my old pal Phil who really encouraged my obsession (obsessed? Moi?) with the fine actor Michelle Pfeiffer. Here as the best Catwoman in any Batman film EVER . . . . . . . It is long been known that Pfeiffer need 18 separate suits made for her role as Catwoman and needed to be hand sown into most of them. But did you know she actually learned really rather well how to use the whip!?

Michelle Pfeiffer did her own whip stunts. She was trained in whip combat by Anthony DeLongis, famed whipper and stunt coordinator who also trained Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones. 

Explaining her training, “I trained for months with the whip master. On our first day together, I caught his face with the whip and it drew blood. It completely shattered me. I was very nervous on my first day of shooting. I’d gotten pretty good with the whip, but when you show up, you don’t anticipate all the lights everywhere.” 

She completed her iconic "mannequin head strike” attack from the 1992 blockbuster in just a single take. [x] 

BATMAN RETURNS (1992), dir. Tim Burton

 Damn!

NEW YEAR'S EVE

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a continued thank you to all my pals and everyone who stops by to look  . . . . . . . (so almost nobody then ED) - gee thanks - 

This is dedicated to my pal Phil who we know actually does stop by and he is largely responsible for my adoration of Michele Pfeiffer. Fan now and fans then, dangerously close to starting a Fan Club but hey . . . . . . we are obviously much more mature now . . . . . . . ahem

Don't think there is any Catwoman to match Pfeiffer [and thus starts an argument but hey I am allowed my own personal preference] and would watch her in anything. The suit she donned in Batman Returns (1992) was allegedly not the easiest costume to work in and the rumours abounded that she had to be hand stitched into it. Not quite so but they made over 40 versions and getting her in required a lot of talcum powder!

"It was the most uncomfortable costume I've ever been in. They had to powder me down, help me inside and then vacuum-pack the suit. They'd paint it with a silicon-based finish to give it its trademark shine. I had those claws, and I was always catching them in things. The face mask was smashing my face and choking me... we had a lot of bugs to work out." Michelle Pfeiffer 

Top three Pfeiffer Films (today) Batman Returns,  Frankie and Johnny, Scarface . . . . . it changes un rotation but Catwoman role is usually up there being funny, witty, charged with a self possessed athleticism and defies categorisation