Maxwell Caulfield Opens Up About Grease 2 and Why He Never Fell for Michelle Pfeiffer
Of course this happened. Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t get any more tragically ironic, Maxwell Caulfield—yes, that guy from Grease 2—decides to spill the beans on why he didn’t fall for Michelle Pfeiffer during filming. And no, it wasn’t because she wasn’t magnetic, sultry, or a walking masterclass in 80s glamour. It was because, surprise, they were both freshly married at the time.
Welcome back to another episode of “Stars Are Just Like Us (Except More Famous and Slightly Less Grounded).” I’m Sage Matthews, your reluctant narrator through the wreckage of nostalgia cinema, where every sequel is cursed, every soundtrack underperforms, and every actor ends up wondering if they should’ve just stayed in theater.
In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Caulfield, now 65, reflected on his role as Michael Carrington opposite Pfeiffer’s Stephanie Zinone in the ill-fated follow-up to one of the most iconic musicals ever made. You know, the film that tried to take on E.T., Rocky III, and Poltergeist and got absolutely steamrolled by them? Yeah, that one.
But here’s the kicker: despite playing a couple who shared enough sparks to light up an entire high school auditorium, there was zero off-screen chemistry. Not because they weren’t attractive or charming—because let’s be real, Michelle Pfeiffer could make a tax audit sound seductive—but because, as Caulfield put it, “We both just got married.” So much for romance.
“We did not have the kind of relationship that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John did,” he explained. “They were so symbiotic, they absolutely loved each other. Michelle and I only had to play being in love.”
And yet somehow, we’re supposed to believe that two people pretending to be madly in love didn’t actually fall for each other? In Hollywood? Sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Pfeiffer, meanwhile, took her post-Grease 2 momentum and ran straight into Scarface, becoming cinematic royalty while Caulfield watched from the sidelines as his ship sank. “When the film… didn’t take off, I went down with the ship,” he admitted. “But she rose like a fabulous phoenix.”
Because nothing says success like watching your co-star become Al Pacino’s leading lady while you ponder whether your career peaked in a movie nobody saw. But hey, Caulfield found solace in theater and later scored cult status thanks to Empire Records, which flopped hard but gained a second life thanks to Gen X and early millennials who apparently missed all the good movies the first time around.
Still, he holds no grudges. “I hope one day to work with her again,” he said of Pfeiffer. “She’s a wonderfully generous actress.” Which is sweet, if slightly tragic. Because while he’s hoping for a reunion, Pfeiffer is probably busy aging backwards and maintaining her eternal glow while Caulfield jokes about hair loss being the cardinal sin of Hollywood.
So what’s the takeaway here? That even when given the chance to star in a blockbuster sequel, timing, luck, and marital status can derail everything. And also that sometimes, the universe decides that some people are destined for stardom while others are just background noise in a failed franchise reboot.
Anyway, can’t wait to see how this gets worse.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and Fox News Digital, NY Post
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