{"id":47460,"date":"2026-04-26T05:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47460"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:56:36","slug":"qa-elle-fanning-michelle-pfeiffer-talk-motherhood-in-apple-tvs-margos-got-money-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47460","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A | Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer talk motherhood in Apple TV\u2019s Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/24\/9db8d379-6ace-4bda-8494-37bb4e78cb88_b869929d.jpg?itok=_nHrvVUQ&amp;v=1777007262\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Michelle Pfeiffer and a toddler named Elle Fanning first crossed paths as screen partners in the early 2000s, in a story that explored matters of adulthood, parenthood, and the value of love and family amid the chaos of life.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fanning was playing a younger version of her sister Dakota, then seven years old, who was making her major feature-film debut. The role was that of the daughter of a man with an intellectual disability, played by Sean Penn, fighting to secure custody of her in <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">I Am Sam<\/em>. Pfeiffer portrayed the father\u2019s sharp-tongued lawyer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A quarter of a century later, Pfeiffer and Fanning are starring in the new TV series <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles<\/em>, an adaptation of Rufi Thorpe\u2019s 2024 novel that has them revisiting many of the themes that first brought them together.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The series, which is now streaming on Apple TV, was developed for television by prolific producer David E. Kelley, Pfeiffer\u2019s husband. It stars Fanning as the titular character, Margo Millet, a recent college dropout and aspiring writer from a working-class background who, after becoming pregnant with her professor\u2019s baby and being left to parent solo, is forced to figure out how to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">She finds a financial lifeline as a creator for <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">OnlyFans<\/span>, the subscription-based platform made famous by adult content.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3351234\/elle-fanning-michelle-pfeiffer-talk-motherhood-apple-tvs-margos-got-money-troubles?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Pfeiffer and a toddler named Elle Fanning first crossed paths as screen partners in the early 2000s, in a story that explored matters of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[156,21364,21365,21367,2862,4342,21231,21366,3983,18598,1587],"class_list":["post-47460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-apple","tag-elle","tag-fanning","tag-margos","tag-michelle","tag-money","tag-motherhood","tag-pfeiffer","tag-talk","tag-troubles","tag-tvs","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}