Michelle Williams

You were 16 years old, right, when the series started? I was, yes, 16. Yes. It just sounds like it was a big moment for you in understanding who you are and your taste. What was it about that experience that kind of was that flashpoint for you?

You were 16 years old, right, when the series started? I was, yes, 16. Yes. It just sounds like it was a big moment for you in understanding who you are and your taste. What was it about that experience that kind of was that flashpoint for you?

Because you didn't go to formal school, of course, now you've lived the school of life like 10 times over, right? But do you feel any insecurity about that? Or does that ever come up for you where you're thinking about like, this is a bit of knowledge that maybe if I had gone to school, I would have known it? Oh, all the time.

Because you didn't go to formal school, of course, now you've lived the school of life like 10 times over, right? But do you feel any insecurity about that? Or does that ever come up for you where you're thinking about like, this is a bit of knowledge that maybe if I had gone to school, I would have known it? Oh, all the time.

Because you didn't go to formal school, of course, now you've lived the school of life like 10 times over, right? But do you feel any insecurity about that? Or does that ever come up for you where you're thinking about like, this is a bit of knowledge that maybe if I had gone to school, I would have known it? Oh, all the time.

I want to ask you about a really big moment in 2019, your Emmy Award speech when you won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Fosse-Verdon. I want to play a little bit of it and then we'll talk about it briefly on the other side. Let's listen.

I want to ask you about a really big moment in 2019, your Emmy Award speech when you won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Fosse-Verdon. I want to play a little bit of it and then we'll talk about it briefly on the other side. Let's listen.

I want to ask you about a really big moment in 2019, your Emmy Award speech when you won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Fosse-Verdon. I want to play a little bit of it and then we'll talk about it briefly on the other side. Let's listen.

That was my guest, Michelle Williams, in 2019. I still get chills when I hear it. You were so profound and clear-eyed. I always wondered, do you practice the speech before you go up there? Because that's such a detailed speech. Thank you.

That was my guest, Michelle Williams, in 2019. I still get chills when I hear it. You were so profound and clear-eyed. I always wondered, do you practice the speech before you go up there? Because that's such a detailed speech. Thank you.

That was my guest, Michelle Williams, in 2019. I still get chills when I hear it. You were so profound and clear-eyed. I always wondered, do you practice the speech before you go up there? Because that's such a detailed speech. Thank you.

These years later, do you feel...

These years later, do you feel...

These years later, do you feel...

are you feeling in this moment as someone who you like spent your career really trying to show the inner like us as women like you're trying to show the totality of us as human beings and now we're in 2025 you're finding so much in your daughter matilda but then there's so much in the world that we're up against now five years later how are you six years later what are you reflecting on when you hear that speech

are you feeling in this moment as someone who you like spent your career really trying to show the inner like us as women like you're trying to show the totality of us as human beings and now we're in 2025 you're finding so much in your daughter matilda but then there's so much in the world that we're up against now five years later how are you six years later what are you reflecting on when you hear that speech

are you feeling in this moment as someone who you like spent your career really trying to show the inner like us as women like you're trying to show the totality of us as human beings and now we're in 2025 you're finding so much in your daughter matilda but then there's so much in the world that we're up against now five years later how are you six years later what are you reflecting on when you hear that speech

Are you feeling optimistic? No, are you? I'm thinking about what you said about your daughter. I feel optimism when I look at my kids.

Are you feeling optimistic? No, are you? I'm thinking about what you said about your daughter. I feel optimism when I look at my kids.

Are you feeling optimistic? No, are you? I'm thinking about what you said about your daughter. I feel optimism when I look at my kids.