Michelle Williams
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, I really burned for this one. I wanted this job so badly. I had read this script and made my case for it and my pleas to the director. And we went on walks and we exchanged books and music and other things that we related through this piece of material. And I was just on fire to make this thing for two, three, four, five, six years. It was just all I could see was making this movie.
Yeah, I really burned for this one. I wanted this job so badly. I had read this script and made my case for it and my pleas to the director. And we went on walks and we exchanged books and music and other things that we related through this piece of material. And I was just on fire to make this thing for two, three, four, five, six years. It was just all I could see was making this movie.
And then the process of making the movie was such a throwback to how I had read that people used to work and what an experience that was. You know, never before, never again. We had these immense rehearsal periods where we were not working on the specific scenes or the specific dialogue, but we were building a memory bank together. and building experiences as these characters.
And then the process of making the movie was such a throwback to how I had read that people used to work and what an experience that was. You know, never before, never again. We had these immense rehearsal periods where we were not working on the specific scenes or the specific dialogue, but we were building a memory bank together. and building experiences as these characters.
And then the process of making the movie was such a throwback to how I had read that people used to work and what an experience that was. You know, never before, never again. We had these immense rehearsal periods where we were not working on the specific scenes or the specific dialogue, but we were building a memory bank together. and building experiences as these characters.
He would have us do these family tasks like do a budget. Now decorate a Christmas tree. Okay. Now take your daughter to an amusement park. Now get into a fight about why the sink isn't fixed. So we were creating a shared experience. Because it's going into our bodies and our psyches, we're experiencing it as though it has happened to our characters.
He would have us do these family tasks like do a budget. Now decorate a Christmas tree. Okay. Now take your daughter to an amusement park. Now get into a fight about why the sink isn't fixed. So we were creating a shared experience. Because it's going into our bodies and our psyches, we're experiencing it as though it has happened to our characters.
He would have us do these family tasks like do a budget. Now decorate a Christmas tree. Okay. Now take your daughter to an amusement park. Now get into a fight about why the sink isn't fixed. So we were creating a shared experience. Because it's going into our bodies and our psyches, we're experiencing it as though it has happened to our characters.
And so then when it came time to shoot the second half of the film, when they are older and cleaving from each other, We had the built-up frustration of trying to make something work and failing at it.
And so then when it came time to shoot the second half of the film, when they are older and cleaving from each other, We had the built-up frustration of trying to make something work and failing at it.
And so then when it came time to shoot the second half of the film, when they are older and cleaving from each other, We had the built-up frustration of trying to make something work and failing at it.
Yeah, I haven't revisited this film for so long. And it just makes me think, you know, there was a point in my life where I had lived more on screen than off, when I had more experiences as a character than as a person. And so I think that work, characters, they became places where I could try to work out what's the truth of the situation, what's the truth between these two people.
Yeah, I haven't revisited this film for so long. And it just makes me think, you know, there was a point in my life where I had lived more on screen than off, when I had more experiences as a character than as a person. And so I think that work, characters, they became places where I could try to work out what's the truth of the situation, what's the truth between these two people.
Yeah, I haven't revisited this film for so long. And it just makes me think, you know, there was a point in my life where I had lived more on screen than off, when I had more experiences as a character than as a person. And so I think that work, characters, they became places where I could try to work out what's the truth of the situation, what's the truth between these two people.
And that maybe if I could learn that through these sort of avatars. that I could take that into my personal relationships, that that would sort of teach me how to live, teach me how to be.
And that maybe if I could learn that through these sort of avatars. that I could take that into my personal relationships, that that would sort of teach me how to live, teach me how to be.
And that maybe if I could learn that through these sort of avatars. that I could take that into my personal relationships, that that would sort of teach me how to live, teach me how to be.
Because what I saw when I started seeing these movies, these films, these TV shows, is that I saw so many different representations of how a human being can be and still be lovable and still be worthwhile and still have value. And I thought, oh, this is different than from what life is telling me or let's say patriarchy is telling me.
Because what I saw when I started seeing these movies, these films, these TV shows, is that I saw so many different representations of how a human being can be and still be lovable and still be worthwhile and still have value. And I thought, oh, this is different than from what life is telling me or let's say patriarchy is telling me.
Because what I saw when I started seeing these movies, these films, these TV shows, is that I saw so many different representations of how a human being can be and still be lovable and still be worthwhile and still have value. And I thought, oh, this is different than from what life is telling me or let's say patriarchy is telling me.