Michelle Pfeiffer Wants ‘Downtime’ After Back-to-Back Premieres of “The Madison ”and “Margo’s Got Money Troubles ”(Exclusive)

NEED TO KNOW

• Margo’s Got Money Troubles, on Apple TV April 15, marks the second major TV series Michelle Pfeiffer has starred in over the last month

• The premiere of Margo comes a month after The Madison debuted, and Pfeiffer tells PEOPLE she’s “loving” the response to the two shows, which are “so radically different”

• Pfeiffer stars alongside Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman, Greg Kinnear and Nicole Kidman in Margo’s Got Money Troubles

Michelle Pfeiffer has had a busy few months.

The actress leads not one but two of the biggest TV shows of the year, The Madison and Margo’s Got Money Troubles. The two series couldn’t be more different — the former sees Pfeiffer as a grieving widow who uproots her Manhattan life for Montana; in the other, she plays a former Hooters waitress helping her daughter raise a baby — and Pfeiffer, 67, puts on uniquely impressive performances in both.

As she takes in the whirlwind of it all, Pfeiffer tells PEOPLE she’s “both” enjoying the chaos and ready for a bit of a break.

“I’m loving that both shows have been so well received, and they’re so radically different,” she says. “They’ve just brought a lot of joy in different ways to people.”

That said, Pfeiffer admits, “I am looking forward to some downtime. It’s been a while.”

Pfeiffer has said she feels like it’s her “time” right now as she’s experiencing career highs in new ways.

“I just can do whatever I want, and I have a husband who is able to travel with me because he can write anywhere,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the New York City premiere of The Madison in March. “I think we both know that I’ve put in my time, and now it’s my time.”

“The landscape has changed so much,” she continued. “There’s so many more opportunities for women my age — especially in television — which didn’t used to be the case, even 10 years ago. So it’s a very exciting time.”

Margo’s Got Money Troubles sees Pfeiffer reunite with Elle Fanning, whom she’s worked with previously and has known since Fanning was young.

“I’d seen her in The Great, and I was just blown away by her, and I saw her become a woman,” Pfeiffer tells PEOPLE of her costar. “I thought — okay, she’s not a little girl anymore.”

Fanning, 28, is also an executive producer on the series with Pfeiffer, who praises her costar as a “strong producer.”

“[She’s] just the consummate professional and she’s able to just wholeheartedly slip into character, do this emotional scene, do three takes, come out of it, and handle issues as a producer,” Pfeiffer says. “And then sidebar, you’re off [camera]. She’s chewing bubblegum, and we’re laughing — [she’s] the easiest person on the planet to make laugh.”

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In the show, which was adapted from Rufi Thorpe’s novel, Pfeiffer and Fanning play mother-daughter duo Margo and Shyanne, alongside Nick Offerman as Jinx, Margo’s dad. Greg Kinnear and Nicole Kidman also star in the series, which Pfeiffer’s husband, David E. Kelley, wrote.

The series is described as a “bold, heartwarming and comedic family drama following recent college dropout and aspiring writer, Margo, the daughter of an ex-Hooters waitress and ex-pro wrestler, as she’s forced to make her way with a new baby, a mounting pile of bills and a dwindling amount of ways to pay them.”

Margo’s Got Money Troubles premieres April 15 on Apple TV.

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