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| | Michelle Williams does Marilyn Monroe drag in Vogue: tragic, awful or interesting? | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here?s the thing: I like Michelle Williams (not love, but like) but casting her as Marilyn Monroe is just? awful. Michelle was cast as Marilyn in My Week With Marilyn, a film based on a book from a production assistant who worked with Monroe in England, while Monroe filmed The Prince and the Showgirl with Lawrence Olivier. Monroe had just married Arthur Miller, and he traveled to England with her, and Monroe and Olivier famously hated each other. I get that the ?behind the scenes? story is interesting, and I?m not generally opposed to the film being made, but would it have killed them to get someone more vivacious and sexy to play Marilyn? Instead, we have Michelle Williams, who? let?s just say it, is a girlish, affected hipster with no sex appeal.
These photos tend to prove that in spades - Michelle, still in character as Marilyn, covers the new issue of Vogue. The cover is especially terrible, and the rest of the photos - well, Michelle just looks like a cheap Monroe impersonator. I?ve seen drag queens do a better, more realistic Marilyn. This seems like the kind of stunt Linnocent would pull. Anyway, the full slideshow is here, and the full article is here. Here are some highlights:
MW?s hipster cred: She gestures with small, slim, expressive hands as the conversation ranges from her affinity for dresses from the 1930s and long-discontinued Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 pencils (?I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it?s a sad one?) to the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, whose notoriously complex Ada is a favorite. ?I think Nabokov once said that genius is finding the invisible link between things,? she tells me. ?And that?s how I choose to see life. Everything?s connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.?
Turning 30: ?I feel like something has changed for me, but it?s a new change, so it?s going to be hard for me to describe,? she says. ?Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don?t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don?t feel scared to have an idea and express it.? She adds, ?I feel giddy about it because it?s a complete transformation. It?s like I?ve found my voice.?
Playing Marilyn: ?As soon as I finished the script, I knew that I wanted to do it, and then I spent six months trying to talk myself out of it,? she says. ?But I always knew that I never really had a choice.? And, she adds, ?I?ve started to believe that you get the piece of material that you were ready for.?
On Marilyn: ?Everybody has their own idea of who Marilyn was and what she means to them,? Williams says. ?But I think that if you go a little bit deeper, you?re going to be surprised by what you find there.?
Becoming Marilyn: Williams spent six months immersing herself in all things Monroe. She read biographies, diaries, letters, poems, and notes, pored over photographs, listened to recordings, watched movies, and tracked down obscure clips on YouTube. ?I?d go to bed every night with a stack of books next to me,? she recalls. ?And I?d fall asleep to movies of her. It was like when you were a kid and you?d put a book under your pillow hoping you?d get it by osmosis.? Her turn from indie waif to Hollywood sex goddess involved working with a choreographer to perfect Monroe?s walk and gaining weight to approximate her curves. ?Unfortunately, it went right to my face,? she says, puffing up her cheeks to illustrate. ?So at some point it became a question of, Do I want my face to look like Marilyn Monroe?s or my hips?? (She opted for the former and filled out the latter with foam padding.) In the end, she says, ?it felt like being reborn. It felt like breaking my body and remaking it in her image, learning how she walked and talked and held her head. None of that existed in my physical memory, and I knew I needed as much time as possible to make it part of me.?
Sex appeal: ?Any messages that I got as a child about what it is to have a woman?s body or to be sexual were all negative?that people wouldn?t take you seriously or that they would take advantage of you? The expectation to be beautiful always makes me feel ugly because I feel like I can?t live up to it,? she says. ?But I do remember one moment of being all suited up as Marilyn and walking from my dressing room onto the soundstage practicing my wiggle. There were three or four men gathered around a truck, and I remember seeing that they were watching me come and feeling that they were watching me go?and for the very first time I glimpsed some idea of the pleasure I could take in that kind of attention; not their pleasure but my pleasure. And I thought, Oh, maybe Marilyn felt that when she walked down the beach.?
On the paparazzi, and her daughter: ?That?s what seems the most rotten thing about it to me,? she says. ?And I?m going to do everything in my power to make her feel safe and protected, and to extend her childhood for as long as possible.?
On Heath?s death: ?Three years ago, it felt like we didn?t have anything, and now my life?our life?has kind of repaired itself? Look, it?s not a perfectly operating system?there are holes and dips and electrical storms?but the basics are intact.? Still, she says, in a fundamental way nothing will ever be the same: ?It?s changed how I see the world and how I interact on a daily basis. It?s changed the parent I am. It?s changed the friend I am. It?s changed the kind of work that I really want to do. It?s become the lens through which I see life?that it?s all impermanent.? Williams shuts her eyes, then opens them again and says, ?For a really long time, I couldn?t stop touching people?s faces. I was like, ?Look at you! You move! You?re here!? It all just seemed so fleeting, and I wanted to hold on to it.?
Her love life: Williams speculates that she may be drawn to stories about the vicissitudes of romantic love because ?relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I?m single, so it?s still kind of a mystery?a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of.? She confesses that she misses having a guy around when it?s time to haul wood at her house upstate. But, unlike Monroe, she doesn?t define herself through the men in her life: ?I?m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what?s on my bedside table rather than what?s in my bed.?
[From Vogue]
Yeah, I don?t even believe she?s single. I think she?s dating Cary Fukunaga, the director of the latest version of Jane Eyre. I just think she doesn?t want to talk about who she?s dating, which? I kind of wish she would just say, ?I don?t want to talk about it? rather than lying. We?re not going to hold it against her if she?s dating, for the love of God.
Photos courtesy of Vogue.
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| | Will Michelle Williams's new boyfriend bring her closure, Swedish-style' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I think I saw something about this last week, and I was going to write about it and then I? forgot? Michelle Williams aims to be rather boring and uncontroversial, so it?s not like we have to talk about it every time she has a date. Especially when she generally dates nice-ish guys with little to no drama. Take her on-again/off-again relationship with Spike Jonze - it could have very easily been a ?controversy? but it just wasn?t. They were together. They got pap?d sometimes. His ex-wife never said anything and everybody wished them well. I figured it would be the same for Michelle and her new boyfriend too. His name is Cary Fukunaga, and he?s a director. He was responsible for putting my lover Michael Fassbender in the role of Mr. Rochester, so Cary is ALL GOOD in my book. He?s Swedish and Japanese, and he?s really tall. And he?s pretty hot too.
So, why am I writing about them now? Well, the Enquirer has a weird little story about why Michelle is hoping this relationship works out. Something about Sweden.
Three years after his overdose death, Heath Ledger?s former girlfriend Michelle Williams has found new love with a guy who she believes can help her finally move past the tragesy. Michelle has been spotted out with Swedish-Japanese director Cary Fukunaga, 33. And sources tell the Enquirer that the two have forged an unbreakable bond because of his Swedish roots.
So how does it involve Heath? Michelle was in Sweden filming Mammoth when she got the shocking news of his accidental drug overdose in January 2008.
?Heath?s death changed Michelle?s life forever and she will never forget where she was at that moment when she got the news,? revealed a close source. Michelle is convinced that Cary, the director of Jane Eyre, is a lucky omen for her, divulged the insider.
?She is a very spiritual person and believes that dating a Swedish guy brings her full circle and gives her closure. Michelle has high hopes that Cary could be the one to help her move past Heath. She fears losing another guy to drugs. She?s so happy that Cary loves life and doesn?t need drugs or other substances.
Perhaps the biggest factor in the relationship is Matilda Rose, her 5-year-old daughter, who Michelle hopes will bond with Cary. Added the insider: ?What Michelle wants more than anything is a happy like for Matilda.?
[From The Enquirer, print edition]
It feels like the Enquirer was just stretching for some kind of connection between these two. Enquirer Writer #1: ?He?s Swedish. Was Michelle ever in Sweden?? Enquirer Writer #2: ?YES! Go with that.? I think Michelle is part or half Swedish too, incidentally. I?m surprised they didn?t mention that.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News & WENN.
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She?s always up to something, and yesterday (May 9) Michelle Williams was spotted catching a flight at LAX International Airport.
The ?Brokeback Mountain? actress looked lovely in a black and floral top with light-colored trousers as she made her way through the security checkpoint.
As for her upcoming movie ?Meek?s Cutoff,? Michelle told press she loved wearing her long dresses because they made going to the bathroom a cinch.
"The dresses, they were ingenious for so many reasons. They actually do keep you quite cool, because they're cotton, and they also provide cover. Privacy is important to women, and when you're on the trail like that, so little is afforded. But with the dress, you can actually go to the bathroom in private. It provides an incredible shield. You could literally be in a conversation with somebody and just sort of drop down . I can't believe I'm talking about this."
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| | Michelle Williams: Dawson's Creek was 'the best acting classes I ever took' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Michelle Williams covers the May issue of Interview Magazine, and these are some of the photos from the shoot? the full pictorial is here, with the full online interview cover story excerpt. Can I just say? I want to like Michelle, but I?m not now and I have never been the kind of woman who appreciates wispy, girly, fragile-seeming women. They grate on my nerves, honestly. I want them to stop talking in their baby voice, stand up straight, eat something with substance and burn every article of clothing with a Peter Pan collar and/or lace paneling. That?s what I want for Michelle? I want her to be or seem stronger, more substantial as a person, less delicate.
So? back to the photo shoot. How else are you going to photograph her? Pale blues, whites, every photo looking like it might break. It gets boring. Michelle is promoting her new film, Meek?s Cutoff, a movie about ?three couples in 1845 who, while traveling through the Oregon desert by covered wagon, begin to suspect that their guide, Stephen Meek, has led them astray.? Here are some highlights from the interview:
VENDELA VIDA: I know you were born in Montana, but are you of Scandinavian descent?
Michelle Williams: I?m Norwegian.
VIDA: I thought so, because Ingrid is your middle name and your mom has a Scandinavian-sounding maiden name: Swenson. Did you ever hear Norwegian in the household, or did you ever go back to Norway?
WILLIAMS: No, I?ve never been, and my mom didn?t speak it. We made a lot of lefsa, a Norwegian dessert, to compensate. I was talking to my grandma on the phone maybe a month ago, and she said, ?Did you ever hear this story about Inge? Inge Jacobin?? I said, ?No, but it?s a great name, Inge Jacobin. Tell me about Inge Jacobin.? Inge Jacobin would be my great, great grandmother, I think, and she was a stowaway. At 15 years old, she got on a boat from Norway, made it to Ellis Island, and then hopped on a covered wagon, and that?s how they got to Montana. I found that out after I made Meek?s.
Living on her own at the age of 15: ?It gave me so much comfort. Why did I have that urge? I think it was Inge Jacobin?s bones kicking around in me? I went to L.A. At that point my family was living in San Diego, so it wasn?t as big an undertaking as Inge Jacobin?s. I hopped around from crappy apartment complex to crappy apartment complex in the Los Angeles area.?
On making a home: ?I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated. I just remember moving furniture around a lot. I remember that the tool included with the Ikea furniture promised to assemble everything but didn?t. It was all light wood, by the way. Norwegian looking, the sales guy told me. I sat in frustration with a lot of cardboard boxes around me, eating Clif bars for dinner because I couldn?t cook. I was making house, but at night, because no one was there telling me to go to bed. I still have a hard time giving up on the day and admitting exhaustion.?
Working with Meek?s Cutoff director Kelly Reichardt for the second time: ?You know the safety you feel when a man asks you to marry him? It felt like she doesn?t just want to date me. She wants to marry me.?
On the 19th century costumes, and peeing in public: ?The dresses . . . I miss that. The only part of your body left exposed to the sun were your hands. My hands have aged at a rate disproportionate to the rest of my body because of being out there in the hot sun for two months. You couldn?t keep sunscreen on your hands; you were just sort of filthy all the time. But the dresses, they were ingenious for so many reasons. They actually do keep you quite cool, because they?re cotton, and they also provide cover. Privacy is important to women, and when you?re on the trail like that, so little is afforded. But with the dress, you can actually go to the bathroom in private. It provides an incredible shield. You could literally be in a conversation with somebody and just sort of drop down . . . I can?t believe I?m talking about this. I read once that when James Dean was feeling inhibited on set, he went off into a corner and urinated. I thought, How interesting! Then having that experience of peeing in private underneath the dress . . . [laughs] At first I was really scared. You?re out there in the desert all day. I mean, what are you going to do when you?re a girl? It?s hard. We were scared about snakes and all these creatures and critters, and it finally just became this weird joy to be out there, just stuck behind the bush . . . I can?t believe I?m still talking about this.?
Working with the camera: ?One of the best things?and something I?m grateful for every time I walk onto a film set?is my six and a half years on Dawson?s Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera. Best acting classes I ever took.?
[From Interview]
There?s a lot more in the piece at Interview - Michelle talks at length about Blue Valentine, which I still haven?t seen. Michelle talking about dreams and stories and stuff. In this interview, she sounded pretty substantial, so I?ll have to give her credit for that. Her words contradict the wispy vibe I get from her in photos and television interviews.
Oh, it’s great that she remembers her Dawson’s Creek roots! REPRESENT.
Photos courtesy of Interview.
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| | Michelle Williams: Back with Spike Jonze? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s always tried to keep her private life out of the public eye, but Michelle Williams' recent date with former boyfriend Spike Jonze has the gossip mill spinning.
The ?Blue Valentine? actress was spotted attending a LCD Soundsystem gig with the ?Where the Wild Things Are? director, sparking rumors of a reunion.
An inside source told press, ?Spike realizes he made a huge mistake leaving Michelle and he desperately wants her back.?
Another pal added, ?They are making a tentative go of their relationship again but Michelle is nervous. Spike broke her heart the first time around.?
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| | Michelle Williams' Big Apple Shopping Spree | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Setting out on a gorgeous spring day in the Big Apple, Michelle Williams was busy doing a bit of shopping at Malia Mills and Steven Alan in New York City on Tuesday (March 29).
The ?Blue Valentine? babe looked adorable in a peacoat overtop a dress and tights as she made her way down the street while stopping to chat with a dog-walking passerby along the way.
The sighting comes just after Miss Williams looked lovely in a lilac Chanel frock as she attended the NYC screening of ?Meek?s Cutoff? the previous evening.
The film stars Paul Dano and Bruce Greenwood and surrounds settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 only to find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
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| | Michelle Williams: 2011 Oscar Awards Darling | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Displaying her stunning beauty on the red carpet, Michelle Williams was on hand for the 83nd annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening (February 27).
Held at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, the lovely actress was clad in a gorgeous Chanel frock as she chatted with press while gearing up for the swanky ceremony.
Admitting that she's a bit nervous, Miss Williams is in the running for Best Actress for her work in the movie "Blue Valentine".
Meanwhile, the Oscar Awards are being hosted by Anne Hathaway and James Franco while airing live on ABC at 8PM ET.
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| | Michelle Williams: Forevermark Diamond Dinner | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She always looks picture perfect, and last night (February 24) was no exception for Michelle Williams as she attended a private dinner hosted by the Forevermark diamond brand.
The ?Dawson?s Creek? babe looked lovely in a gorgeous designer get-up and happily posed for pictures before heading inside Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.
At the dinner, Ms Williams was honored for her ?Blue Valentine? Oscar nomination at the upcoming Academy Awards this Sunday.
Because of the honor, Michelle donned Forevermark pieces including Forevermark round diamond studs and the Forevermark double flower diamond ring.
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