When she signed on to share the screen with Dakota Fanning again after two decades, Michelle Pfeiffer was curious how things would go.

The two actresses — currently starring as first lady Betty Ford and her daughter Susan — first worked together on 2001's I Am Sam, when Fanning was just six years old.

"I was so excited, just selfishly, to see her. She was such a marvel at six," Pfeiffer says while filming the latest installment of EW's Around the Table video series with her First Lady castmates Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson, Kiefer Sutherland, and Fanning. "She was just a marvel ... I would watch her work and I would think, 'What planet is this little actress from?' Because she would just channel things," Pfeiffer continues. "And I was curious to see if she could still do that. And she can. And she can and I'm so jealous. And we just had so much fun."