Michelle Williams

The actor also defended the 'Succession' star's divisive acting technique, telling Variety, “We've watched him work harder than anyone.”

But the bond between Strong and Williams goes beyond professional admiration. While there, Strong would spend hours playing with Matilda and giving her pony rides. She’s one of multiple celebrities to come out in defense of Strong after the article was published last December, including Jessica Chastain, Aaron Sorkin, and Anne Hathaway. “We’ve all been in awe of his talent,” Williams told Variety. “We’ve watched him work harder than anyone and wait a long time for other people to recognize it.

Michelle Williams is expecting her third child. She shares son Hart with husband Thomas Kail and daughter Matilda with the late Heath Ledger.

“It was a reminder that life goes on,” she explained. “There’s nothing that makes you committed to a better world than raising a great kid. It’s exciting to discover that something you want again and again is available one more time,” she explained of her growing family.

Michelle Williams welcomed son Hart with husband Thomas Kail in 2020, and she also shares daughter Matilda, 16, with late actor Heath Ledger.

"And Matilda, it's one thing to be completely honest as an actor — it's another thing to be completely honest as a human being. "There's nothing that makes you committed to a better world than raising a great kid. She added about becoming a mom again during the pandemic, "It was a reminder that life goes on.

Michelle Williams praised "Succession" Emmy winner Jeremy Strong's passion for "play" that helped heal her own family.

The “Showing Up” star continued, “But I also love Jeremy so much. “But now when I’m rambling on about my work or my process, I wonder if that should stay in the vault.” “[Matilda] didn’t grow up with her father but she grew up with her Jeremy and we were changed by his ability to play as though his life depended on it, because hers did.”

'Jeremy [Strong] was serious enough to hold the weight of a child's broken heart,' Michelle Williams says of daughter Matilda after Heath Ledger's death.

"And Matilda, it's one thing to be completely honest as an actor — it's another thing to be completely honest as a human being. "I always say to Matilda, 'Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented or pretty or had nice clothes.' " You combine your DNA with someone else to create a new life." "There's nothing that makes you committed to a better world than raising a great kid. "The most ecstatic moments of life and art are the transcendent ones. Williams added about becoming a mom again during the COVID-19 pandemic, "It was a reminder that life goes on.

After four years of friendship, Jeremy Strong moved into Michelle Williams's home to help care for her daughter when Heath Ledger died.

In a recent interview with Variety, Williams revealed, “Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child’s broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,” adding that after Ledger died in 2008, Strong let Matilda ride on his back as he pretended to be a pony. Michelle Williams herself can go to a pretty intense place. Four years after meeting at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Strong, Williams’s sister, and another friend moved into Williams’s home to support her adjustment to single parenthood.

In an interview with Variety, actress Michelle Williams talked about expanding her family, activism, and her friendship with actor Jeremy Strong.

Williams sought an immersive education on the issue in order "to learn more about the problems of pay inequity." I needed to ask myself, can I be a big enough, strong enough and mature enough person to see the opportunity in front of me and take it?” "The world we brought a baby into is not the world we thought we were bringing a baby into, but the baby is ignorant of that. "I grew up a lot in that moment because doing anything in public is very difficult for me," Williams recalled. "I got nothing," said Williams of her immediate work plans. "As the years go on, you sort of wonder what they might hold for you or not hold for you.

Actress Michelle Williams told Variety in an interview that Jeremy Strong moved in with her and her daughter following Heath Ledger's death to help the ...

To “play as though his life depended upon it” is another way to describe what he was doing on the Succession set. This is a very touching anecdote about Strong’s role in providing comfort to a grieving family after a terrible tragedy … but it also sort of confirms his all-in method-actor vibes, doesn’t it? “Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child’s broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,” Williams, who also announces her pregnancy in this interview, told Variety. “[Matilda] didn’t grow up with her father, but she grew up with her Jeremy and we were changed by his ability to play as though his life depended upon it, because hers did.”

Oscar nominee Michelle Williams confirmed that upcoming Peggy Lee biopic with director Todd Haynes is indefinitely put on hold.

“It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s kind of everything,” Williams said of the upcoming film, in theaters November 23. Then he got on the Zoom and told me that he wanted me to play this person, his mama.” “The Many Saints of Newark” breakout Alessandro Nivola was set to play Dave Barbour, with Doug Wright penning the screenplay.

Michelle Williams discusses her role in Steven Spielberg's new movie 'The Fabelmans,' her fight for pay equity and dealing with the press.

Williams, in turn, had seen “Old Joy,” Reichardt’s previous film and had written her a fan letter, telling her that she’d love to work with her at some point. “We’ve all been in awe of his talent,” says Williams. “We’ve watched him work harder than anyone and wait a long time for other people to recognize it. She’s aware of what happened to her friend Jeremy Strong when he talked about his intense process in a December profile in the New Yorker. That piece was brutal in its depiction of the “Succession” star as overly intense, pretentious and so committed to his Method approach that he once asked to be tear-gassed for a scene in “Trial of the Chicago 7.” Among other transgressions, it faulted Strong for once bankrupting the Yale theater club in order to throw a party for Al Pacino, an idol when he was a student. Given that, it was surprising when Williams found herself, in 2018, a very public face of the gender pay gap after it was revealed that she earned an $80 per diem for reshoots on “All the Money in the World,” while her co-star Mark Wahlberg received $1.5 million. On screen, she had been slated to star as Janis Joplin but revealed that the film has yet to secure financing, and to appear in Todd Haynes’ biopic about the singer Peggy Lee. “It’s gone the way of the buffalo, I’m afraid,” Williams says. “I grew up a lot in that moment, because doing anything in public is very difficult for me,” she says. She was planning to return to Broadway — where she has already appeared in a revival of “Cabaret” and in the drama “Blackbird” — with “Mary Jane.” The Amy Herzog play, about a woman and her chronically ill son, had an acclaimed run Off-Broadway in 2017, where Williams first saw it and became obsessed. “It was a reminder that life goes on,” she says. Tony Kushner, the “Angels in America” playwright who has worked with the director on “Lincoln” and “West Side Story,” is penning the script. I’ve had a lot of different experiences in this profession, but this felt like the ultimate.” “Michelle told me this was the first time they had a hair-and-makeup trailer,” says co-star Hong Chau. “It was a big deal.” Because she makes films infrequently, she doesn’t have health insurance through the DGA. So, she has a theater named after her at the Sorbonne, but she has to teach to get health insurance.”

Michelle Williams is pregnant with her third child! The 41-year-old actress confirms the news in a recent interview with Variety.

"Tommy, like everything else in our life, I share this with you, and Matilda, it's one thing to be completely honest as an actor," she said as she accepted the award. “It was a reminder that life goes on,” Williams tells the trade publication. Michelle Williams is pregnant with her third child!

Michelle Williams has described how "Succession's" Jeremy Strong was there for her and her daughter to help them cope with the tragedy of losing Heath ...

Inevitably, with all the success came negative attention, which Williams didn't appreciate because of what he'd done for the family. Williams and Ledger weren't together at the time of his death, having reportedly broken up in September 2007, five months before his death. In a new interview with Variety, Williams credits Strong with helping her get through the situation and also defended his "method" acting for which he was recently criticized.

[Matilda] didn't grow up with her father, but she grew up with her Jeremy and we were changed by his ability to play as though his life depended upon it, ...