‘Girls today aren’t prey. They are victorious’: Michelle Williams on MeToo, money and playing Spielberg’s mum
ichelle Williams is apologising for the camera angle. She’s cross-legged on a bed and her iPhone keeps slipping down the pillows. Sometimes all I see is the duvet, sometimes something more mysterious. “It’s hard to find a place to put this,” she says. “I don’t want to breastfeed you.”
Williams is a powerhouse. Now 42, she commits to the women she plays with an emotional immediacy as ferocious as it is effective. Her 11 minutes in, as a woman who has lost all three children in a house fire, will upset me for ever. She’s clearly nice: sensitive, an empath. She’s also tough. Ryan Gosling called her a cross between Brigitte Bardot and Clint Eastwood.
“That actually gives me the chills as I talk about it,” she continues, proffering an arm, “because I have young children and I have an older child and so I’ve gone through one childhood, and now I’m back in childhood thinking about how to make this experientially rewarding and fun for all of us.” She wedges her phone by the headboard. It keels slowly over. Such gadgets are the arch enemy of creative child-rearing, she says. What she fears is “becoming a list-making, goal-driven human robot. Because the phones and the computers are telling us that they are more important than we are, and that the world is inside of them, and they’re so alluring and they have so much power.” A still gaze down the lens. “I find myself in a struggle with it, and I want to win.
Williams moved, solo, at 15, to Burbank, California, AKA Studio City. “There are some really disgusting people in the world,” she has said of the experience, “and I met some of them.” The emancipation from parental oversight appears to have stretched a little further than formality. Supper was always pizza – as was breakfast, and lunch. She didn’t see a dentist for a decade.
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