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Michelle Williams

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Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

Same, same. The consideration of one's own pleasure was not in the conversation when I was coming of age. It was, listen, first of all, you shouldn't do it. Yeah, right. If you have to, you'll probably suffer a tragedy, get sick, or die. Right, right. So it seemed pretty scary and loaded. And it's certainly taken me a long time to unpack.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

And I just, I do believe that things will be different for my daughter. Oh, say more. What do you mean? I see her generation and their radical acceptance of each other and themselves. And I see, I see them working together with more equality than certainly what I was raised with. Look, I hope I'm not just talking about Brooklyn.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

And I just, I do believe that things will be different for my daughter. Oh, say more. What do you mean? I see her generation and their radical acceptance of each other and themselves. And I see, I see them working together with more equality than certainly what I was raised with. Look, I hope I'm not just talking about Brooklyn.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

And I just, I do believe that things will be different for my daughter. Oh, say more. What do you mean? I see her generation and their radical acceptance of each other and themselves. And I see, I see them working together with more equality than certainly what I was raised with. Look, I hope I'm not just talking about Brooklyn.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

That's what I think. I just think, oh, she's just light years ahead of where I maybe even am. She teaches me.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

That's what I think. I just think, oh, she's just light years ahead of where I maybe even am. She teaches me.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

That's what I think. I just think, oh, she's just light years ahead of where I maybe even am. She teaches me.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

she is proud of me and accepting of me and even this show she's like you go mom or like I did a magazine cover that was racy and she said you look amazing and so I don't know if it's cultural I don't know if it's familial I don't know if it's title I don't know if it's but I'm seeing a rapid push and developmental readiness as it relates to my daughter

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

she is proud of me and accepting of me and even this show she's like you go mom or like I did a magazine cover that was racy and she said you look amazing and so I don't know if it's cultural I don't know if it's familial I don't know if it's title I don't know if it's but I'm seeing a rapid push and developmental readiness as it relates to my daughter

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

she is proud of me and accepting of me and even this show she's like you go mom or like I did a magazine cover that was racy and she said you look amazing and so I don't know if it's cultural I don't know if it's familial I don't know if it's title I don't know if it's but I'm seeing a rapid push and developmental readiness as it relates to my daughter

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I think maybe the first time that it happened was when I was on Blue Valentine, and it was meant to be set in California, and I'd been attached to it for so many years, and it was my heart and my passion and my everything, my reason for being. And they said, guess what? We are ready to go. Come on to California.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I think maybe the first time that it happened was when I was on Blue Valentine, and it was meant to be set in California, and I'd been attached to it for so many years, and it was my heart and my passion and my everything, my reason for being. And they said, guess what? We are ready to go. Come on to California.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

I think maybe the first time that it happened was when I was on Blue Valentine, and it was meant to be set in California, and I'd been attached to it for so many years, and it was my heart and my passion and my everything, my reason for being. And they said, guess what? We are ready to go. Come on to California.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

And it totally broke my heart, but I didn't feel like I was in a position in that moment to relocate my daughter and myself. And they said, I have to let this go. This is not going to be good for the health of her family. And so I was lucky enough to meet a collaborator, Derek C. in France, who said, OK, then we'll take what was set by the ocean and set it by the mountains.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

And it totally broke my heart, but I didn't feel like I was in a position in that moment to relocate my daughter and myself. And they said, I have to let this go. This is not going to be good for the health of her family. And so I was lucky enough to meet a collaborator, Derek C. in France, who said, OK, then we'll take what was set by the ocean and set it by the mountains.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

And it totally broke my heart, but I didn't feel like I was in a position in that moment to relocate my daughter and myself. And they said, I have to let this go. This is not going to be good for the health of her family. And so I was lucky enough to meet a collaborator, Derek C. in France, who said, OK, then we'll take what was set by the ocean and set it by the mountains.

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So I've been lucky enough to come across collaborators who would make that accommodation and then also just find other ways to accommodate. Can we do it during the summer so that it's not disruptive of her school pattern or whatever? Is it a place that will allow for some incredible opportunity for her?

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So I've been lucky enough to come across collaborators who would make that accommodation and then also just find other ways to accommodate. Can we do it during the summer so that it's not disruptive of her school pattern or whatever? Is it a place that will allow for some incredible opportunity for her?

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So I've been lucky enough to come across collaborators who would make that accommodation and then also just find other ways to accommodate. Can we do it during the summer so that it's not disruptive of her school pattern or whatever? Is it a place that will allow for some incredible opportunity for her?

Fresh Air
Michelle Williams Insists On Finding Pleasure & Humor Alongside Pain

So it's sort of a give and a take and just always kind of checking in with that maternal instinct.