Michelle Williams has emerged as one of the most gifted actresses working today—a chameleon who wholly inhabits the character at hand. VFArchive Revisit VF's conversation with the ‘The Fabelmans’ actress: Photography by Collier Schorr.
money, I tell her. It's late afternoon now, and techno music has begun to thud-thud-thud from what seems to be a day rave below. Money, she says, was never that important to her:"It was never a motivating factor for me. It's never been the thing that's gotten me out of bed to go to work." To support herself and Matilda, Williams lived frugally"in a very simple house, with a very junky car, and went on no vacations.
The day after the ceremony, the kindling finally caught flame. Jessica Chastain, who has 750,000 Twitter followers, is one of the most vocal advocates for equity in Hollywood, and also happens to be an old friend of Williams's , She was acutely aware that the moment was symbolic."I've never really been at the center of something like that, of a news cycle like that—other than, you know, traumatic death," she says. During the ensuing week,"between Jess re-breaking the bone of the story and WME offering a monetary apology," as Williams puts it, she had a series of telephone conversations with the higher-ups at the agency.
For her, what resonates from the experience is the power generated by women banding together."I was one woman by myself," she says,"and I couldn't do anything about it. But in the wolf pack—the phrase Abby Wambach uses—things are possible. And that's really what it took: somebody who was at the head of the pack, Jessica Chastain, pulling me up with her, and then all these other women surrounding me, teaching me.
The one subject Williams won't initially discuss is her private life. She's got a relatively new someone—or new to the media, anyway—and I can tell she's itching to mention him, the way people in love are."I would tell you everything, in the spirit of women sharing with each other," she says, but"the Internet's an asshole.
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