Michelle Williams

And so it gave me this kind of crash course to a way of working that I hadn't experienced before, this physical reinvention. to have to learn how to completely remake my own body with my own habits and propensities and holdings, to let go of those and to allow a new structure to emerge that was more similar to Marilynne. And that was very painful.

It was like breaking me down bone by bone and then building me back up. What kind of stuff did you have to do? I mean, because you have to mentally get there, but physically get there too, right? but you have a start date for a movie that's telling you at a certain point you have to drop your pencil and you have to just be ready.

It was like breaking me down bone by bone and then building me back up. What kind of stuff did you have to do? I mean, because you have to mentally get there, but physically get there too, right? but you have a start date for a movie that's telling you at a certain point you have to drop your pencil and you have to just be ready.

It was like breaking me down bone by bone and then building me back up. What kind of stuff did you have to do? I mean, because you have to mentally get there, but physically get there too, right? but you have a start date for a movie that's telling you at a certain point you have to drop your pencil and you have to just be ready.

But, you know, her walk, her carriage with those shoulders that looked like water was falling off of them, and, you know, as you can see me hunched over in front of you, that's not my resting state. But I was very lucky to be supported by a few teachers on that film who I think really set me off on a new path of...

But, you know, her walk, her carriage with those shoulders that looked like water was falling off of them, and, you know, as you can see me hunched over in front of you, that's not my resting state. But I was very lucky to be supported by a few teachers on that film who I think really set me off on a new path of...

But, you know, her walk, her carriage with those shoulders that looked like water was falling off of them, and, you know, as you can see me hunched over in front of you, that's not my resting state. But I was very lucky to be supported by a few teachers on that film who I think really set me off on a new path of...

Yes, there's all this interior landscape because as I was growing up, I was reading all these books about the method and Uta Hagen and this kind of more American way of working from the inside out. And then I was introduced to this perhaps more British way of working from the outside in. And so I was compelled by what I was learning there and realizing –

Yes, there's all this interior landscape because as I was growing up, I was reading all these books about the method and Uta Hagen and this kind of more American way of working from the inside out. And then I was introduced to this perhaps more British way of working from the outside in. And so I was compelled by what I was learning there and realizing –

Yes, there's all this interior landscape because as I was growing up, I was reading all these books about the method and Uta Hagen and this kind of more American way of working from the inside out. And then I was introduced to this perhaps more British way of working from the outside in. And so I was compelled by what I was learning there and realizing –

how many more opportunities it would give me to become different people if I could deconstruct myself and then reconstruct in somebody else's image.

how many more opportunities it would give me to become different people if I could deconstruct myself and then reconstruct in somebody else's image.

how many more opportunities it would give me to become different people if I could deconstruct myself and then reconstruct in somebody else's image.

I see this as an acknowledgement of what is possible when a woman is trusted to discern her own needs, feels safe enough to voice them, and respected enough that they'll be heard. When I asked for more dance classes, I heard yes. More voice lessons, yes. A different wig, a pair of fake teeth not made out of rubber, yes.

I see this as an acknowledgement of what is possible when a woman is trusted to discern her own needs, feels safe enough to voice them, and respected enough that they'll be heard. When I asked for more dance classes, I heard yes. More voice lessons, yes. A different wig, a pair of fake teeth not made out of rubber, yes.

I see this as an acknowledgement of what is possible when a woman is trusted to discern her own needs, feels safe enough to voice them, and respected enough that they'll be heard. When I asked for more dance classes, I heard yes. More voice lessons, yes. A different wig, a pair of fake teeth not made out of rubber, yes.

And all of these things, they require effort and they cost more money, but my bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honor Gwen Verdon. And so I want to say thank you so much to FX and to Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and for paying me equally because they understood...

And all of these things, they require effort and they cost more money, but my bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honor Gwen Verdon. And so I want to say thank you so much to FX and to Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and for paying me equally because they understood...

And all of these things, they require effort and they cost more money, but my bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honor Gwen Verdon. And so I want to say thank you so much to FX and to Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and for paying me equally because they understood...

Because they understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value. And then where do they put that value? They put it into their work. And so the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart...