As Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer faced new on-screen challenges in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”. But they didn’t have any trouble falling into step off-screen, according to Douglas. In a joint interview with Extra, Douglas compared his working relationship with Pfeiffer to those of on-screen pairings during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

“It’s a comfort factor,” he said of working with Pfeiffer. “You understand the old days, why actors and actresses did a lot of movies together. The comfort factor of you know that person, you don’t have to go through those formal introductions and then try to understand how each other works, or this or that. You just kind of settle in like an old couple that have been together.”

Technically, the two are a couple in the movie, so it’s an apt simile. But Douglas also noted that Pfeiffer’s talent and positive attitude contributed to his good experience during filming. “As you get older and older … you only want to work with pleasant people that are talented,” he explained.  Surely, that’s not a knock against any of his former co-stars, but it’s certainly high praise for Pfeiffer. Hopefully, that synergy will pay off — again — in their latest movie.