A "Cool Rider" Never Forgets
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 6:07PM 
Don't know if you Pfans out there caught PopWrap's interview with Maxwell Caulfield of Grease 2 fame. He's doing Cactus Flower on stage now (yep the property that won Goldie Hawn that early Oscar -- though I personally didn't realize that Adam Sandler's Just Go With It was a reworking???) so he's making the press rounds. He's still an extremely handsome bloke at 51. I've noticed him billed on a couple of stage things here in New York over the years but haven't managed to catch him doing his thing.
PopWrap asks him about Grease 2 (1982) of course and I love his humble appreciative response despite the film career never really working out.
PW: Do you remember it fondly?
Maxwell: I haven’t hit enough home runs in the film world to say, “oh yea, ‘Grease 2,’ isn’t that a cute movie?” For me, it is a very major part of my filmography. I still have my great friends from the experience and when it pops up on TV, I stick with it – it brings back so many happy memories.PW: It was filmed almost 30 years ago and some actors can't remember projects they made 3 years ago -- do you recall shooting it?
Maxwell: Oh yes! You’re never going to forget a liplock with Michelle Pfeiffer! [laughs] I remember being in the bowling alley and the school. I have very distinct memories from making that movie ... But I do look at it and think, “damn, why didn’t they give me a second picture?” [laughs] But them is the breaks.
He's never forgotten his liplock with Michelle Pfeiffer? Well neither have we.
Yum!
Grease 2, Kissing, Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer
Reader Comments (4)
She loves like a real live Barbie doll in that shot.
fuck
*looks like
There's something so refreshing about his attitude. He doesn't have that desperate cloying quality that would send him straight to humiliating stints on The Surreal Life.
I saw him play Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in a production of "A Little Night Music" that came through Baltimore about three years ago, and one does get the sense that he enjoys what he does without taking it too seriously. Too bad his singing voice isn't particularly strong, especially live and especially singing Sondheim.