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| | Michelle Williams: "My Week with Marilyn" AFI Premiere | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Bringing her upcoming motion picture to the AFI Fest spotlight, Michelle Williams took to the red carpet for the premiere of "My Week with Marilyn" in Hollywood, CA on Sunday night (November 6).
The 31-year-old actress looked stunning as she worked the press area at Grauman's Chinese Theatre alongside co-stars Julia Ormond and Dominic Cooper.
Aside from Miss Williams and co., "My Week with Marilyn" also stars Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Emma Watson and Dougray Scott.
Directed by Simon Curtis and set for a November 23rd release date, the much-talked-about film tells the story of "Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, who documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl."
Adding to the already strong hype over Miss Williams' performance as Marilyn, the movie's costume designer Jill Taylor told press that Director Curtis was nearly brought to tears upon first seeing Michelle act out the role.
Taylor told, ?We had long fittings with Michelle. When she stepped out as Marilyn for the first time, in proper hair and make-up, director Simon got very emotional. Almost teary."
?He?d been working on this film for seven years, so it was a big moment to see it finally coming to life,? she added.
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| | Michelle Williams in gold Oscar de la Renta: lovely or too precious & young? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are new photos of Michelle Williams at last night?s premiere/screening of My Week With Marilyn at the AFI Fest. The dress is Oscar de la Renta and? I don?t like it much. Yes, this particular shade of gold works well on pale blondes, and it suits her figure and everything. But? I find this look super-boring on Michelle. I know that?s ?on? me, because I?m not in love with Michelle as a person or as an actress. I feel like this dress is too ?cloying? and ?young? and ?precious? on her, which is how I feel about her personality too. This feels like a very young woman?s party dress - like, this is something a rich girl would wear for her 16th birthday party. It?s strange on a 31-year-old hipster with a weird affected accent.
I kind of hate Michelle’s chopped hair too. The resemblance is so strong with Mia Farrow, it bugs. In her recent Elle UK cover profile (I covered some of the photos here), Michelle explained her rationale for keeping the chopped hair:
?What Matilda would love is for her mom to grow out the cropped hair, though that?s unlikely to happen any time soon. The only people who like it are gay men and my girlfriends. Straight men across the board are not into this hair! I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it. I?ve really grown into it. I feel like myself with short hair.?
[From Elle via The NYDN]
So we can?t dislike her short Bieber hair because she wears it this way for Heath Ledger, I guess. And she?s going to keep wearing it this way as a ?memorial? to him. Sigh?I know that moved a lot of people, so I?ll try to be careful here. Let me just say it this way? I hope My Week With Marilyn is really poorly reviewed. I hope no one considers Michelle for any awards this year. I hope she doesn?t have to give many more interviews.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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Immersed in promotions for her upcoming movie, Michelle Williams was busy traveling the States as she touched down in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday (November 5).
The 31-year-old actress worked her way through LAX Airport terminal while hitting the exits and loading into an awaiting car following the weekend flight.
As for her current press efforts, Miss Williams is gearing up for the November 23rd release of her new movie titled "My Week with Marilyn".
Among the new material seeing release, the lovely actress is featured in a clip which shows her all glammed up as Marilyn Monroe while belting out the song "Heatwave" - with the video available for viewing pleasure in the player below!
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| | Michelle Williams' 'My Week with Marilyn' : Sneak Peek | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s one of the most versatile actresses of her generation, and Michelle Williams is getting all kinds of attention for her new role in ?My Week with Marilyn.?
In the flick, the ?Brokeback Mountain? actress plays iconic actress/singer Marilyn Monroe, and from all accounts, she nailed it.
In a newly-released clip from the film, Williams?s Monroe hides in the back of a car so as to steal a young Colin Clark from the studio lot for an adventure together.
And even Queen Elizabeth has shown interest in ?My Week with Marilyn,? as it includes her meeting Ms. Monroe back in 1956. ?My Week with Marilyn hits theaters on November 23rd.
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| | Michelle Williams covers Elle UK, tries to explain her funky Marilyn voice | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Michelle Williams covers the December issue of Elle UK, and these are the two covers (subscribers and newsstand). I don?t get it - why is she still doing the Mia Farrow thing when she?s promoting a film about Marilyn Monroe? Sigh? I want to like Michelle, I really do, but I?m really tired of her fragile-Mia-Farrow thing, and I?m really concerned that My Week With Marilyn is going to be a disaster. Yes, people are already claiming that she?ll get an Oscar nomination for it, but the trailer did not inspire confidence with me.
Unfortunately, we don?t have any excerpts from the Elle interview, but Michelle?s publicity for the film has begun in earnest, so I do have some highlights from other interviews she?s given recently.
Speaking to Marilyn?s ghost: “While we were filming, something came out in the National Enquirer that a psychic had spoken to her and that she approved of what we were doing and she thought I was doing a really good job. So maybe she likes it!”
On Marilyn?s voice: “I studied tapes,” Williams said. “There’s really nothing that exists of her, that I could find anyway, that exists of her having a conversation with a friend…So there wasn’t a template that existed for her everyday vocal pattern, so at a certain point you have to make it imaginatively.”
Taking the role: ?I was so apprehensive,? she says, ?it was daunting living up to people?s expectations as well as my own expectations.?
Parallels with Monroe?s life: ?There were so many connections and parallels for me in making this film. I was 30 when making the movie, the same age Marilyn was when she filmed The Prince and the Showgirl, the picture our film is based around. We filmed in the same studio at Pinewood where that movie was made. I had the same dressing room Marilyn had used and we also shot at the same house, Parkside, where she had stayed during filming.?
Wanting to know the real Marilyn: ?I had always been more interested in the private Marilyn, and the unguarded Marilyn. Even as a young girl, my primary concern wasn?t with this larger than life personality smiling back from the wall but with what was going on underneath.?
What Marilyn?s experience was in England: ?What Marilyn anticipated happening and what actually happened were two very different things and they created discord and unhappiness for her in England. She was expecting to go to London and make a movie with the most esteemed actor of the time and hoped it would bring her the respect that she deserved and craved. When she arrived she felt she was being mistreated and laughed at. Olivier sneered at her and didn?t treat her with the kind of attention she was hoping for but when you watch the film now, you can see Marilyn wipes the floor with the rest of the cast. They are all very stiff, mannered and archaic but if she were making that movie today there is nothing about her performance that has gone out of fashion or faded. She is very real, very in the moment and so beautiful.?
[From The Express UK & E! News]
Joyce Carol Oates?s Blonde describes a similar situation when Marilyn came to England having just married Arthur Miller - apparently, Olivier was a harsh taskmaster, and he thought Marilyn was the weak link in his film. When the film came out, though, Marilyn?s performance was the only thing people liked. So that part of Hollywood history seems authentic.
A new clip from My Week With Marilyn has come out - Michelle singing in the tub:
And here?s the trailer again and a new poster for the film:
Covers courtesy of The Fashion Spot.
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| | Michelle Williams in white Dior at the 'Marilyn' premiere: sexy, pretty or blah' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last night was the New York Film Festival premiere of My Week With Marilyn, the film that I?m not looking forward to. I mean, I?ll probably see it, but I?m not expecting Michelle Williams to blow me away as Marilyn Monroe, at all. Michelle?s dress was Christian Dior, and although I?m not crazy about a white dress on a pale-skinned blonde girl, I am thankful that Michelle wore something relatively sexy. I got tired of her style during the last awards season, when Michelle was mostly covered up in a series of vintage-y looking dresses that looked more appropriate for young girls. It?s nice to see her looking like an adult woman, and yes, this is a very Mia Farrow style from the neck up. It?s not just the haircut, either. Michelle really does look like Mia, right?
I?ve also included some photos of Michelle?s costar Eddie Redmayne, who I still think has a serial killer face. It?s something about the eyes and the too-high cheekbones - he looks ?off? (to me). Jake Gyllenhaal also came out to support Michelle, but we don?t have any photos of it - you can see them together here.
Here?s the trailer again. Michelle?s Marilyn voice bugs even more the second time around.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Michelle Williams Debuts "My Week with Marilyn" | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out to promote her latest picture, Michelle Williams attended the 49th annual New York Film Festival presentation of "My Week With Marilyn" at Alice Tully Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center on Sunday evening (October 9).
Decked out in a lovely Dior frock, the 31-year-old actress smiled as she posed alongside program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center Richard Pena and co-star Eddie Remayne.
Praising Miss Williams for her work in the Simon Curtis directed drama, a THR reviewer told, ?Michelle Williams gives a layered performance that goes beyond impersonation. Playing both the damaged, insecure woman and the sensual celebrity construct, Williams gets us on intimate terms with one of Hollywood?s most enduring and tragic icons."
Due out in theaters November 4, the movie tells the story of "Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documenting the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl."
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| | Michelle Williams on parenting: 'I think it's the ultimate creative act' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Quite recently, we’ve witnessed a few sanctimonious statements coming from Hollywood actresses on the subject of parenting. First, Jennifer Garner decided that “[T]here’s no deeper want for a woman than to be a mother,” and Gwyneth Paltrow opined that “[M]otherhood gives your life real meaning.” At least this morning’s revelation from Julie Bowen — that she admits to hating her kids sometimes — gives us imperfect mothers some slight comfort that not everyone out there is pretending to be the ideal mother. Now, Michelle Williams covers the October issue of Hobo Magazine to promote the DVD release of Meek’s Cutoff, which Williams describes as a “feminist Western,” as well as My Week With Marilyn (for which she’s already done the drag dress-up thing in Vogue). In the accompanying interview, Williams makes some semi-loaded statements on motherhood, but I’m not quite sure whether or not they rise to the level of a Goop or Garner motherhood-superiority complex. Let’s jump in with some excerpts:
On Attachment To Characters: After I end a project I always feel a little crazy for a couple of weeks and realize that it was just a come down or hangover from the character that had its grip in me. It just takes a moment or two to detach yourself from it. Like after Blue Valentine I couldn’t take off my wedding ring for a couple weeks, it just didn’t feel right, but of course I’m not wearing that today. It eventually lets go of you, so that something else can take its hold and work its magic.
On Her Life: I’m always trying to figure out what kind of life I want to live. What do I want to do? Where is the best place to be? How do I want to spend my time What situations optimize my parenting? Which really is the most important thing in my world. That’s the question that I’m asking. “How do I ive my life and workin a way that makes me the best parent I can be?” I think it’s the ultimate creative act. If this doesn’t turn out well then there is no success or awards in the world that can make up for it. So I’m always wondering what that balance is, and where it is. Like today we were in Los Angeles and we were starting to get followed by the paparazzi and it unhinges me in a matter of seconds. While nothing is physically harming you, emotionally I find it so traumatic. It completely shakes me, and terrorizes me. I find myself all of a sudden crying and screaming, so I realized this is not the best place for me to be the best parent I can be. It gets a little blown out of proportion in your mind. I’m not equipped to deal with it, to have a sane and rational approach to it.
On Acting: I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef, or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge. And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise. When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell. It seems to me that as soon as you get good at something, it is a sure sign that it is about to walk out of your life because it ceases to hold your mind and creative energy hostage.
[From Hobo Magazine via ONTD]
Parenthood as a creative act? The mere statement sounds bad if one reads it out of context, for sure. Yet I think that Michelle isn’t so much saying that parenting is the most important thing in the entire world and that everyone should drop everything and immediately procreate. Instead, I think she’s a pretty high-strung brand of mother who continually worries about the child that she already has and probably isn’t looking to make any more in the near future. She simply wants to do right by her child, but her phrasing is a bit awkward. As to Michelle’s purported desire for a new profession as a laundress or writer of love letters, that’s easier said than done, right? As if she’d actually enjoy working long hours as a washmaid for very little pay … perhaps she should just make a movie about that sort of life. Then, she can wash it out of her system a few weeks after filming ends just like taking off the wedding ring after Blue Valentine.
Photos courtesy of Hobo Magazine
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| | Michelle Williams Dreams of Becoming a Laundress | | Added 14 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Oscar nominated Michelle Williams tells Hobo Magazine — I’m not even going to try and find out what that magazine is about because it’ll shatter the illusions I have of it being a magazine for the homeless — that she had an epiphany while watching a live stage show in Paris.
“I often dream of quitting acting. Walking away and becoming a laundress or a sous chef, or maybe writing other people’s love letters for a living,” Williams reveals.
“Clearly, I don’t like to be in charge,” she explains. “And thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise.” — Us
I’m assuming she was high as that’s the only way anyone can get through a live stage show in Paris and it would explain her wanting to do people’s laundry for a living. The day a famous actor gives up living in the lap of luxury is the day the doctor declares them legally insane.
“When you have options, anything is bearable. It’s when a situation is inescapable that it becomes hell,” Williams tells Hobo Magazine. “It seems to me that as soon as you get good at something, it is a sure sign that it is about to walk out of your life because it ceases to hold your mind and creative energy hostage.”
So what Michelle is trying to say is acting will never walk out of her life. That’s… disappointing.
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| | Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe for Vogue | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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