One-time Dawson’s Creek actor looks back on her career and talks about working with Steven Spielberg on The Fabelmans
“This is the perfect guilt-free time because nobody needs me,” Williams said, though she noted it isn’t easy to meet the demands of a press tour while breastfeeding: “I’m on somebody else’s timeline, because I’m the food.”
Michelle Williams: 'I couldn’t believe it when I started turning pages in this script for The Fabelmans.' Photograph: Sinna Nasseri/The New York Times With her Oscar-nominated roles in Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine and Manchester by the Sea, as well as the naturalistic films she has made with director Kelly Reichardt , Williams established herself as a top-tier actor capable of unvarnished authenticity.
To hear Williams tell it, that shift to bigger, more stylised performances took a concerted effort; in person, she’s much more contained, with a presence as close-cropped as the pixie haircut she often favours. “It’s good for me to live like that for periods of time because it’s not my natural place,” Williams said, smiling as she recalled how much bigger she had to become to inhabit Mitzi Fabelman. “It’s the most wonderful thing to borrow.
I wonder if that spectrum between naturalism and stylisation hasn’t been with you since the beginning. Even with something like Dawson’s Creek, you were given pages and pages of very dense, stylised dialogue and you had to find a way to make it sound natural. Michelle Williams: 'I’m always making lists and feeling great if I check them off.' Photograph: Sinna Nasseri/The New York Times
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