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01.12.2023 - 19:17 / deadline.com
Five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams joined us at our Deadline Red Sea Film Festival studio this week to discuss regional change, the role cinema played in her education as an actress and her next project: FX limited series Dying For Sex, which we detailed yesterday.
The Fabelmans and Brokeback Mountain actress told us she was moved to come to the Saudi Arabian festival given the amount of societal change underway in the country and the event’s foregrounding of female creatives.
“I was moved when I read about how quickly change has come to the region,” she said. “I was curious to see what the energy was like here and the people behind that change…A festival that is featuring 38 filmmakers, that’s not a token, that’s a movement. I want to come here and listen. That was my agenda. To listen to the women and men who are working here and making cinema.”
Williams, who has taken a two-and-a-half-year break from acting since she starred in Steven Spielberg’s movie The Fabelmans, disclosed to Deadline that her next project will begin next spring and will see her team up again with network FX.
As we reported yesterday, that project is limited series Dying For Sex, based on the hit Wondery podcast. The drama charts the story of a woman (Williams) diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer who leaves her husband of 15 years and begins to explore her sexuality. She gets the courage and support to go on this adventure from her best friend, who stays by her side all the way to the very end. Writers are Liz Meriwether (The Dropout) and Kim Rosenstock (Only Murders in the Building), and director is Leslye Headland (Acolyte).
“It has been a while since I worked,” explained Williams. “I have three children at home. It takes just the
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