Michelle Pfeiffer recalls humiliation at 'Grease 2' audition that launched her career

There is a particular kind of courage that looks, in the moment, like failure — the courage of showing up underprepared, stumbling through the steps, and walking away certain you have embarrassed yourself beyond recovery. At sixty-eight, Michelle Pfeiffer looked back on the audition for 'Grease 2' that she nearly fled, and recognized it as the threshold through which everything else passed. The humiliation she carried across the Paramount lot in the early 1980s was not the end of the story; it was, as it turns out, the beginning of one of Hollywood's most enduring careers.