If some like it hot, than Michelle Williams will no doubt set quite a few fire alarms in her latest cover feature for GQ‘s February 2012 magazine edition. The "My Week With Marilyn" powerhouse actress had plenty to spill with the mag's journalist...
On her and her late partner, actor Heath Ledger‘s attraction to each other... “Our initial meeting, the circumstances of how we first met, were cosmic or something. Yeah, a lot of things happened at once. It's a bit like we had a lot of things to do, because we didn't have a lot of time, or something.
On Heath’s death...It was making me crazy. I felt like I was going crazy. It was too much trying to deal with what had happened and trying to deal with what was at our doorstep. I just felt trapped. And it's not just me there's somebody else who I'm trying to protect [daughter Matilda], and I can't. I can't make it stop, I can't make it go away. Trying to find ways to explain it or shield her from it. It's like you're trying to go about your life, and make dinner.
On being home-schooled and doing correspondence courses... It was a better fit with my acting work, and a way to sidestep the unwanted bother I'd begun to face at school. There's plenty of opportunities to tease someone who's been in a Lassie movie.
At her last formal school, Santa Fe Christian in San Diego, later its principal would denounce Williams after she appeared in Brokeback Mountain saying, "Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution. She made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn't approve."...It didn't really bother me. It wasn't any surprise to me. I knew. I remember my mother saying to me at one point, 'Just don't make anything your grandmother couldn't see.' And at that point I knew I was living a sinful artistic career, because I had done, and I knew I would do."
On how her Dawson’s Creek character, Jen, influenced her...“I wouldn't say that that would be one of my first qualities as a human being being sexy. And I think because my character on Dawson's Creek was sexy sexualized sexual, I saw all the negative attention and connotations that can come along with that. And that those things can keep people from seeing you clearly.”
On auditioning for Ang Lee's at eight o'clock in the morning, and how she tried to sell him on the notion that landscapes are inherent in your character and so her Montana upbringing made her the right choice. Maybe that's even what swayed him. Either way, he chose wisely. There are plenty of fine Michelle Williams performances from before then—her 2003 cameo in "The Station Agent," for instance—but this was something more. The stillness and broken love of her despair seemed to anchor the grander melodrama that surrounded. On whether it was a difficult role to play. She pauses for a moment, then answers... "Not compared to what everybody else had to do. When I and Heath Ledger saw the finished film together, we complimented each other, but beyond that they weren't sure. I didn't know what to make of it. Maybe when you see something different for the first time, you don't know how to categorize it. It doesn't really fit with anything else. Like the first time you listen to Björk. The first time you eat sashimi."
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Backstage at the Golden Globes after her win!
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