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| | Michelle Williams in white Dior at the 'Marilyn' premiere: sexy, pretty or blah' | | Added 13 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 13 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 13 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.
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| | Michelle Williams Dreams of Becoming a Laundress | | Added 13 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 13 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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| | Michelle Williams does Marilyn Monroe drag in Vogue: tragic 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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| | 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 13 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 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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