Michelle Pfeiffer has scored a Cool Rider, been the Bat's meow, and been sprinkled with Stardust — but nothing prepared her for portraying Betty Ford in Showtime's new drama The First Lady.

Not to say she wasn't prepared.

"I had three scripts running," the actress says in EW's latest Around the Table video, which she filmed with costars Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson, Kiefer Sutherland, and Dakota Fanning. "I had my one script that had all of my notes. And then I had my other script that I would constantly revise with the new changes that came along. And then I had another one for something.... I don't remember what it was for."