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| | Michelle Williams will campaign as lead actress, not supporting, for 'The Fabelmans' | | Added 790 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Michelle Williams at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the TIFF premiere of The Fabelmans. The Fabelmans is a barely-fictionalized account of Steven Spielberg?s childhood and family, and Michelle plays a version of Spielberg?s mother, who was musical, artistic and always encouraged him to follow his dreams of making movies. Michelle has spoken before about what an honor it was to be offered the role, to be directed by Spielberg as she played a version of his mother. Here?s the trailer for the movie:
It looks good and dare I say, very self-referential on Spielberg?s part. As in, he?s almost exclusively referencing his own oeuvre. Anyway, it?s clear that he still has a boyish idea of his parents as larger-than-life figures, and it?s also clear that Michelle is giving an awards-bait performance. The Fabelmans was produced under the Universal banner, and Universal was prepared to put a lot of money into Michelle?s Oscar campaign. But here?s the kicker: the studio wanted to submit Michelle for Best Supporting Actress. Now Michelle says that she?s submitting herself in the lead actress categories:
Not every race is what it seems, and so it goes with the first category decision of the season. Variety has confirmed Michelle Williams? work as the piano-playing mother in Steven Spielberg?s ?The Fabelmans? will be campaigned for the Oscars in best actress, instead of supporting as many pundits had speculated.
The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the prestigious People?s Choice Award and became the undisputed frontrunner in the early days of the awards season. One of the highlights of the cast was Williams? turn as Mitzi Fabelman, a lover of the arts who serves as an inspiration for her filmmaking son Sammy (played by newcomer Gabrielle LaBelle).
The acclaim for the semi-autobiographical story of Spielberg?s childhood was palpable in Toronto, with many seeing Williams? turn as a sure-fire ticket to her fifth career Oscar nomination, perhaps even a highly probable winner in supporting actress. The supporting actress field is now wide open for any of the cast from Sarah Polley?s ?Women Talking,? such as Jessie Buckley or Claire Foy.
Can Williams top the two presumed actress frontrunners, Michelle Yeoh, from ?Everything Everywhere All at Once? or Cate Blanchett from ?Tar??
It?s still up in the air whether Paul Dano, as Sammy?s father, will similarly campaign for leading attention. Co-star Judd Hirsch received the lion?s share of attention and could become the second-oldest performer ever nominated in supporting actor at 87.
[From Variety]
Usually, category fraud goes in the other direction an actor will give a performance which is clearly more of a lead role, and they?ll put themselves up for supporting actor awards because they think it will be easier to win. A lot of cases of category fraud are not even the actors? calls though, it?s the studios making decisions about what kind of campaign they will pay for and how the film is promoted. This specific case, with Michelle, reads to me like the studio was on the fence and they were prepared to finance her supporting-actress campaign, but Michelle saw the film, saw her screen time and decided ?nope, I?m the lead.? It?s bold and it feels like she?s proudly gambling on herself. I?m proud of her for declaring herself the lead like that.
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| | Michelle Williams to troll telling her to have kids: 'stay out of a woman's uterus' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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So many men think it is their god-given right to tell women what to do with their uteruses. Women arent having their BS. Such a man decided to come for Michelle Williams of Destinys Child after she posted a lighthearted video on Instagram discussing her upcoming book. This Instagram troll decided that he had had enough of Michelle Williams engaging with her fans. I guess he felt what she had to say was frivolous and that she needed to be pushing out babies. The following exchange is all women feeling frustrated with folks, mostly men, telling us we should offer our uteruses as a service to the world.
The Instagram troll began the exchange with:
Michelle I love you but you need some childrenu r 2 bored
Michelles clapback was quick indicating that she does not suffer fools lightly. Michelle wrote
You?re an idiot!!!! ??????
Not taking the hint to back off. The user responded to Michelles subtle warning by acting as if she hurt his feelings:
woooooooow that was uncalled for thank you ?
So Michelle, being the powerful woman that she is, schooled this fool-
No, what?s uncalled for is you telling a woman that she needs to have children. What if that woman CAN?T have children?? What if that woman DOESN?T WANT children. WATCH YOUR MOUTH and FINGERS.. Don?t you ever let that come out of your mouth or your fingers on a comment section again to ANYBODY. I would have ignored but too many people need tp stay out of a woman?s uterus!!! Now scram and be blessed!!!
Dude eventually apologized for his error and hopefully he learned a valuable lesson. However, what irks me about this exchange is how often it actually happens. I decided that I didnt want children at 21 and I have yet to change my mind about it at 44. But I had to constantly defend my decision to men and nosey old church women who thought I was being selfish by choosing not to bring children into the world. One guy even had the nerve to tell me it was my DUTY to carry on my race. Like really dude? I no longer apologize or explain my decision to anyone but wouldnt it have been ironic if I just COULDNT have children and not that I didnt WANT children? I have plenty of friends who have struggled for years to get pregnant. They are made to feel inadequate because they cannot have babies. That is why the recent stories of Meghan Markle and Chrissy Teigen having miscarriages are very important. It gives women the space and courage to openly discuss their struggles. I would also like to see more women talk about choosing NOT to have children and how their lives are fulfilled in other ways.
This policing of a womans body needs to stop. Like Michelle said, no one has the right to ever tell a woman what she should or should not do with her ovaries. Women have enough they need to deal with from day to day without having to deal with this antiquated ideal of feminine fulfillment being wrapped up in being a mother and a wife. That ideal must be deaded. Like 2020 deaded.
I am so glad my girl Michelle did not take any quarter with this loser. Let it be a warning to everyone who believes they have the right to tell a woman that she should have kids. Until women have the right to tell men what to do with their semen and penises, STFU and stay out of our uteruses.
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| | Michelle Williams & Thomas Kail quietly got married at some point in the past month | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Less than three months ago, we learned that Michelle Williams got herself a new man, and they were expecting a child. The announcement was completely out of character for Michelle she even did a ?photo shoot? exclusive with People Magazine to go along with the announcement. We soon learned why: Thomas Kail was likely the reason why Michelle?s marriage to Phil Elverum only lasted a matter of months, and Michelle was likely the reason why Thomas?s marriage fell apart last year as well. They had a torrid affair while working together on Fosse/Verdon, and Michelle got pregnant in September (?) of last year, several months after their thing started. Michelle also had a reason for announcing it when she did: she wanted to walk the awards show red carpets with Thomas, and she was visibly pregnant, etc.
Whatever happened, happened and Michelle ended up sweeping every major award for playing Gwen Verdon. She won the Emmy, the Golden Globe and the SAG Award and she made some brilliant speeches along the way. She also said that she hadn?t worked since Fosse/Verdon by choice, and there were stories that she really wanted to marry Kail before she had the baby. Well, it?s looks like it happened:
Officially husband and wife! Michelle Williams and Thomas Kail, who are expecting their first child together, secretly tied the knot, a source confirms exclusively to Us Weekly.
The pregnant Oscar nominee, 39, and the director, 43, sparked marriage speculation earlier this week when they were spotted wearing rings on their wedding fingers in photos obtained by the Daily Mail. Us confirmed in December 2019 that Williams and Kail were engaged after working together on FX?s Fosse/Verdon.
[From Us Weekly]
She went years without ever marrying any of those dudes she was with and then she marries two men in less than two years. It?s wild! But seriously, I was expecting Michelle and Thomas to slip away and get married, so this isn?t surprising. I doubt they did it during the pandemic either my guess is that they probably organized a quiet little wedding about a month ago, and the tabloids are only picking up on the wedding rings now.
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| | Michelle Williams 'fell in love' with Thomas Kail, 'she is happy & fulfilled' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Michelle Williams is pregnant and engaged to Thomas Kail, the primary director of Fosse/Verdon. They likely fell for each other during production, while they were both married. Michelle?s marriage to Phil Elverum fell apart soon after filming ended. We have no idea when Kail?s marriage ended, because Michelle?s PR team seems to be working overtime to whitewash everything across the board. Michelle?s team has been doing set-ups with People Magazine for the past week or so first it was the pregnancy announcement, complete with an exclusive photoshoot. Then they did a piece about her engagement ring, which is probably a pearl center stone (just like Emma Stone). Then Kail and Williams made their red carpet debut at the Golden Globes, so it?s time to put one big bow on all of this.
Michelle Williams has several reasons to look forward to 2020. The actress, 39, is fresh off her Golden Globe best actress in a mini-series win for Fosse/Verdon and will soon be expanding her family with fianc and Hamilton director Thomas Kail.
?Michelle fell in love,? a source tells PEOPLE in this week?s issue. ?She is happy and fulfilled and ready for another child.?
Williams and Kail, 42, worked together on the FX series Fosse/Verdon, in which the Tony Award winner directed the actress. The couple walked the Golden Globe Awards red carpet together where Williams kept her baby bump under wraps in a one-shoulder peach-colored Louis Vuitton gown. A source confirmed to PEOPLE in late December Williams was pregnant and engaged to Kail. Williams? daughter with the late Heath Ledger, Matilda, 14, played matchmaker, the source added.
Her new romance comes more than a year after Williams married indie musician Phil Elverum during the summer of 2018. The two quietly separated in early 2019.
[From People]
Thank the lord that People finally got around to mentioning poor Phil! But my question is? how can Michelle be in a ?new romance? is she?s already pregnant enough to be showing? And how did Matilda set up her mom with Kail when Michelle and Kail were married to other people when they met? SO many questions, I guess we?ll never know! Props to Michelle?s team though, they?ve got it to the point where only gossip bloggers like me are grumbling about it. The official story isn?t being questioned or side-eyed at all by the public at large.
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| | Michelle Williams wore Louis Vuitton to the Globes, made a pro-choice speech | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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By the time Michelle Williams came onto the carpet, I had forgotten that I was actually waiting to see her. We knew that she announced her surprise pregnancy last week, ahead of the Golden Globes, because she didn?t want to suddenly debut her bump out of nowhere. But wow, what a rollout. Michelle walked the carpet with her (still-married?) lover Thomas Kail, who directed her in Fosse/Verdon. They were both married when they worked together. Her marriage fell apart soon after. We don?t know when his marriage fell apart. It does look like Michelle is about five months pregnant, I would say. So? the math is there. Hilariously, some Getty photos ID Thomas as ?Phil Elverum.? Nope. And for old time?s sake, Michelle brought Busy Philipps along as her second date too.
Michelle?s look here was Louis Vuitton and honestly? I don?t hate it. When she was single, she wandered around red carpets looking like a Civil War ghost and/or a retro widow, and now that she?s in love and knocked up, it?s all about soft, creamy orange? The message has been received.
People are still talking about Michelle?s Globes victory well-deserved for Fosse/Verdon and her speech, where she spoke about a woman?s right to choose.
CB tweeted that it felt like Michelle was making a convoluted argument that every woman has the right to make reproductive choices and/or slay as many married dudes as they want. Which? is true. Women should be 100% free to make all of those choices for themselves.
I feel like Lucy Boynton was trying to do a Michelle Williams thing and maybe Lucy pulled it off better than MW! She also wore Louis Vuitton? I mean, it?s just tin foil, but it sort of works. She?s an actress in her own right, but she attended as her boyfriend Rami Malek?s date.
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| | Michelle Williams 'fell hard & fast' for Thomas Kail, but when did they really start' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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| | Michelle Williams is pregnant & engaged to 'Fosse/Verdon' director Thomas Kail | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Michelle Williams is engaged ? and expecting! ?? The four-time Oscar nominee is set to marry Hamilton director Thomas Kail, and the two are also expecting their first child together. ? Tap the link in our bio for all the sweet details. |?: Pip Hurley
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| | Michelle Williams won in a great, colorful Louis Vuitton at the Emmys | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Honestly, I love everything about Michelle Williams these days. I now see her as one of the best actresses of her generation, that?s how good she was in Fosse/Verdon. Her style has finally changed too she dressed like a sophisticated woman in her 30s, as opposed to a Civil War ghost or her usual virgin-widow-bride style. Louis Vuitton does so many women dirty, but they really gave Michelle a great dress for the Emmys: it?s simple and beautiful and it suits her. The color is great on her too.
Michelle ended up winning the Best Actress Emmy for the Fosse/Verdon miniseries. Well-deserved, again she was phenomenal in it. In her speech, Michelle spoke about how she received equal pay and equal respect at every part of the production:
"My bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honor Gwen Verdon." #FosseVerdonFX star Michelle Williams thanks her studios during her acceptance speech for lead actress in a limited series https://t.co/WmT1Fmyol4 #Emmys pic.twitter.com/DDF1ONJV7Z
Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 23, 2019
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| | Michelle Williams: 'I thought the world was the world. I didn't expect things to be fair' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I watched the first half of the Fosse/Verdon miniseries when it first aired, and I watched the last half over the weekend. It really is a brilliant series, and it?s one of those rare moments in television where the producers and writers figured out how to structure the dang thing BEFORE they started shooting. The original intention was to do a straight up miniseries about Bob Fosse. But then they realized that to tell Fosse?s story, they needed to tell the story of his relationship with his wife and collaborator and career partner Gwen Verdon. Michelle Williams plays Verdon and she was given equal time, equal pay and equal weight-of-character to Sam Rockwell?s Fosse. And it?s brilliant. Their chemistry, their scenes together and apart, and just the incredible amount of detail in both of those performances. Michelle absolutely kills it at Verdon I honestly didn?t know Michelle had the range to play that kind of role.
Anyway, Michelle and Sam obviously are coming for all the Emmys. I haven?t seen much Emmy campaigning from Sam, but that doesn?t surprise me he?s not much of a campaign-season hustler anyway. Michelle is happy to campaign though, which is why she gave a lovely, in-depth interview to Vulture?s Emmy issue. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Playing Gwen Verdon: ?It?s so much to play. She would accentuate a sentence where a normal human being wouldn?t. How is she going to sit on that chair? How is she going to collapse? How is she going to wipe away a tear?? She had a sense of who people wanted her to be, and she wanted to deliver. I want to be a tiny little ball as a person, and when I started researching this, I was like, Fk, this is going to be good for me. Her nature is so opposite of mine. And I?m going to have to expand myself as a human being in order to play her.?
She was reticent to work in TV again after Dawson?s Creek: ?When I got out of television, it felt like a stain on you. It was hard work to erase it and to ask to be looked at in a different new way?. Scripts come at you and you have no say. You feel like an eternal child,? she says, noting that while grateful for the experience on that show, she didn?t want to return to that feeling. ?I was afraid of putting myself in a position where I was going to commit to something and then eventually be asked to do something that I didn?t want to do.?
Being an equal partner on the show, complete with equal pay: ?They gave me the support I needed, and for them that took the form of putting their money where their mouth is.? FX paid for the dance lessons she asked for, and opened the dance studios when she needed them, and even agreed to postpone production for a week when she and Rockwell insisted they needed more rehearsal. ?People were treating me like I had value, and so then I felt valued, and I displayed my value.?
Learning how to make money by doing something other than indies: Money, she says, means ?choice, freedom, peace, quiet, downtime? I used to really believe in work being a pure thing, but I don?t know how practical that is or how worldly that is,? she says. She begins to act out a sort of science-lab experiment with her hands, as if she is currently titrating her own career. ?I started to feel like, Can I drop these other colors into the solution without polluting it? Can I retain how I think of myself while adding in these other qualities and concerns, such as a retirement fund??
If Verdon was around today, would she have gotten credit for her work? ?I think so. I thought the world was the world. I didn?t ever expect things to be fair. I didn?t expect this much out of life, being a woman. And in the last couple of years, that started to shift.?
[From Vulture]
That is one of the saddest yet most realistic moments in an interview EVER: ?I thought the world was the world. I didn?t ever expect things to be fair. I didn?t expect this much out of life, being a woman.? We don?t really think about it or talk about it that much, because as we grow up, our expectations of fairness and justice and equity are beaten down so far that we?re sometimes surprised when someone actually, you know, treats us fairly. Also: I still friggin? love that Michelle has started to talk more about money and why she?s made some shifts in her career, and why she?s made more ?commercial? movies lately. She?s got a retirement account. She?s saving money for her daughter. I love when women talk about money.
Photos courtesy of FX, WENN.
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| | Michelle Williams & Phil Elverum separated after less than a year of marriage | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last summer, Michelle Williams covered an issue of Vanity Fair and she revealed a stunning piece of information: unbeknownst to everyone, she had quietly been in a serious relationship with Phil Elverum and they had low-key eloped a few months earlier in 2018. Elverum is an indie rocker and widower who lost his first wife in 2016. Elverum has a very young daughter, and Michelle and Heath Ledger?s daughter Matilda is 13 years old. Since we only knew about the elopement through Michelle?s interview, most of us were like ?wow, way to keep it quiet, good for you!? It felt like it meant something very special that Michelle was able to keep it so private and she spoke about their love in a very moving way. Well, it?s over. It?s over in less than a year of marriage.
It?s over. Michelle Williams and husband Phil Elverum have called it quits after less than one year of marriage, Us Weekly can confirm.
The Dawson?s Creek alum, 38, shocked fans in July 2018 when she told Vanity Fair that she had secretly tied the knot in the Adirondacks in front of a small group of friends and their respective children. Williams is the mother of 13-year-old daughter Matilda, whom she shared with the late Heath Ledger. Elverum, for his part, has a daughter with his late wife, Genevive Castre, who passed away in July 2016 from pancreatic cancer.
?Obviously I?ve never once in my life talked about a relationship, but Phil isn?t anyone else. And that?s worth something,? Williams told Vanity Fair at the time. ?Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free.?
[From Us Weekly]
People Magazine later confirmed the separation, with a ?source close to the situation? saying: ?Michelle and Phil separated at the beginning of the year. It was an amicable split and they remain friends.? So? the beginning of the year. They were married for like six months before they separated? That?s rough. And it seems uncharacteristic of Michelle too while she?s had short relationships in the past decade, she?s never been the type to go all-in with someone she?s isn?t sure about. She just seems extremely cautious about who she opens up to, which is why we thought this guy must be the real deal. And to have it end after less than a year of marriage? it feels like something happened.
I mean, I have some theories. I?ve been watching Fosse/Verdon and my lord, Michelle and Sam Rockwell have some extreme chemistry with each other. I know Sam is with Leslie Bibb and everything butI?ve got some theories.
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