Michelle Williams has a lot going on. Not only is the actress enjoying her Indie Spirit nomination for Sundance/Cannes/Toronto fave Blue Valentine (while decrying her co-star’s Ryan Gosling’s omission), but she’s fearlessly stepping up to playing icon Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming My Week with Marilyn. She’s enjoying working with two women directors, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Me Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, which goes from Venice and Toronto to Sundance) and Sarah Polley (the upcoming Take This Waltz). UPDATE: Blue Valentine‘s NC-17 rating has been overturned and the American Cinematheque is honoring Williams with a tribute on December 11 at Los Angeles’s Aero Theater, to include clips of her films, a discussion with moderator Timothy Blake and a screening of Blue Valentine.
Clearly, this young actress is picking well, from Tom McCarthy’s 2003 The Station Agent and Ang Lee’s 2005 Brokeback Mountain opposite the ill-fated Heath Ledger (the father of her five-year-old daughter), which earned her Spirit and Oscar noms, to this year’s role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s daffy wife in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. I stopped by the Four Seasons with my flip cam to see what makes this actress tick. I found out, among other things, that she cries easily, once did a play with Mike Leigh, and would love to work with him again…
Here is our Sundance interview with Blue Valentine‘s Ryan Gosling and director Derek Cianfrance.
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by Anne Thompson, posted to Awards, Oscars, Box Office, Winter, Directors, Festivals, Sundance, Genres, Drama, Independents, Headliners, Independents, Media, Video, Interviews on December 3, 2010 at 8:42am PST | Permalink | Comments (5)
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