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"I don't feel comfortable with improvisation, really, and I have never felt like I'm very good at it, so I was a little nervous, because [Brad and Joe] are so good at it. They're so free, they're so uninhibited. I felt like the only stiff up there. They were amazing -- they're smart, they're funny, they have a great sense of humor and they were very protective of me.
"The whole tone of making this movie was such a heart-opening experience, so we all walked around like open wounds," continues the actress. "And I think we felt really safe on the set together, and then it was a really hard transformation once the movie ended to go back into the big, bad cynical world. You wanted to retain that, you wanted to hold onto that openness, and yet when you do you just get annihilated out there."
Luckily, Pfeiffer maintains a great deal of optimism about her family, which includes adopted daughter Claudia Rose, 8; husband David E. Kelley; and their son, John Henry, 7. "Being a parent is the best thing in the world. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. It's such a gift," she exclaims. "Of course, as rewarding as it is, the flip side is it's the most challenging thing that a person can do," she adds, with a nod to Sam. "But I'm going to show [my children] this movie," she says with conviction. "I think they can see this one."