The ‘Blue Valentine’ actress stepped out for some retail therapy in West Hollywood this afternoon.
Looks like Michelle Williams spent some alone time this holiday weekend. She’s taking a break from working on her newest film, My Week with Marilyn, which is in pre-production. Michelle has been cast to play the blond bombshell.
She usually tends to to keep a low profile and is rarely photographed out and about but it’s nice to see her looking so good. Michelle Williams made the cover of last months Marie Claire and she opened up about love, her idea of marriage and how badly her mom wanted the rumor of her dating Blue Valentine co-star Ryan Gosling to be true. She was quoted as saying:
“My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.”
She’s absolutely one of prettiest stars out there right now and her career is really blossoming, hopefully she’ll find someone to share her happiness with one day.
Even though the graphic oral sex scene landed her movie, ‘Blue Valentine’ an NC-17 rating, Michelle Williams says she’s proud she did it.
When asked in an interview with Reuters what she thought about the film’s NC-17 rating (later changed to R after protest), Williams was defiant.
“I thought, ‘I’ve never seen that before in a movie and I’m proud to be the first. Good on us for making that happen,’” she said. “As the woman in the situation that was in question, I found absolutely nothing scandalous, tawdry or disgusting about it.”
In fact, she was offered the chance to remove the scene. No dice.
“When we shot that scene, both Ryan and Derek said to me, ‘If this bothers you when you see it in the movie, we’ll take it out,’” she explained. And to her credit, the scene stayed and the moviegoers nation-wide can see it.
In an interview with Angeleno Magazine, the actress admitted that the film – where she originally met former partner and Matilda’s father Heath Ledger – is “a lot” to handle and will be an important experience for her to have.
“I was just an actor who happened to be lucky enough to be in the right place, and it was the place where I met Matilda’s father, and that is a lot,” she said.
“It was a lot. And it will be a lot for Matilda too, when she gets around to watching it. I will watch it with her, when she’s ready. It is hard to imagine what that would feel like, but one day, yes, we will watch it together.”
Williams recently described the period after Ledger’s death as a “year of magical thinking”.
Over two years after his tragic death, Michelle Williams is finally opening up about losing ex-fiancee Heath Ledger.
The ‘Blue Valentine’ star appeared in an interview on Nightline Tuesday night to promote her film, but also talked about how she reacted immediately after the death, and in the years following. Turns out, in some ways, it was easier then.
“In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone,” she said. “It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush. It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I’m sad to be moving further and further away from it.”
Williams met Ledger on the set of their film, ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ and had a daughter together. Now, in ‘Blue Valentine,’ she plays a woman suffering from heartbreak again, this time with Ryan Gosling. The film will be released on December 29th.
Watch the video above for more in the video above, and watch the full interview on ABC.
A week after the MPAA branded its domestic dramaBlue Valentine with an NC-17 rating, the Weinstein Company has decided to appeal the decision and hope for an R without any trims to the film. “We respect the work of the MPAA,” Harvey Weinstein says in a statement today, “and we hope, after having a chance to sit down with them, they will see that our appeal is reasonable, and the film, which is an honest and personal portrait of a relationship, would be significantly harmed by such a rating.” Weinstein is right: The NC-17 would limit the film’s audience and its Oscar chances. The question is whether the notoriously stubborn MPAA will budge. Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, has its U.K. premiere tomorrow night at the London Film Festival and hits U.S. theaters on Dec. 31.
