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‘Oz The Great and Powerful’ Trailer

July 16, 2012 By Thelma Leave a Comment

I have to look beyond overexposed hipster James Franco, and get back in touch with my inner Oz-ian. Meanwhile, on a recent interview with Michelle Williams, she told me about playing Glinda:

TA: In “Oz The Great and Powerful,” you play a younger version of Glinda the Good Witch in ‘Oz, the Great and Powerful.’ This is finally a part you can share with your daughter, Matilda.

MW: Matilda was on set almost every day. I wanted it to be a magical movie to make, and a magical movie for a child to witness. My greatest hope for that movie was to integrate my life with my work.

TA: Glinda is nearly as much of a cultural icon as Marilyn Monroe. How did you own the part?

MW: I hope that you can see shades of the great witch we know Glinda will become because we’ve all seen “The Wizard of Oz.” In some ways, here, she’s still unformed. Later, she becomes this all-seeing perfect creature. In “Oz, the Great and Powerful,” she’s still a fairy — but a little more human.

Filed Under: Books, Movies & TV Tagged With: James Franco, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, Oz the Great and Powerful, Take This Waltz, The Wizard of Oz, Trailer

“Take This Waltz” Trailer

April 4, 2012 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Movies & TV Tagged With: Michelle Williams, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, Take This Waltz, Toronto International Film Festival

Yahoo! Exclusive: Williams on Monroe

December 3, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

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Photo by Weinstein Company

The Monroe Doctrine: Michelle Williams Discusses Her Months with Marilyn

My first major Yahoo! Movies interview

Pixie powerhouse Michelle Williams, 31, is Oscar-nomination bound for her drop-dead Marilyn Monroe in the whimsical memory-piece “My Week with Marilyn.” The two-time Oscar nominee (“Blue Valentine,” “Brokeback Mountain“) talked to Yahoo! about that famous wiggle — “It was like she was doing a figure eight in a vat of honey” — while making tea. Then she was off to the set of Sam Raimi’s “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” where she’s playing yet another blonde with pop culture baggage: Glinda the Good Witch.

Thelma Adams: How did you transform into Marilyn?

Michelle Williams: It was a long process. I started my prep maybe ten months in advance of shooting, I started watching her movies over and over again, listening to her voice on headphones, or playing it in the car when I drove carpool. [Click for full interview]

Filed Under: Celebrity, Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: best actress, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, Oscars 2012, Working Mother, Yahoo! Movies

“My Week With Marilyn” Trailer

October 7, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

I want to be loved by you, by you and nobody else buy you….

Filed Under: Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: best actress, Best Supporting Actor, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, Oscars

TIFF11 day two: Take This Waltz

September 10, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

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Williams and Rogen get out of step

 A TIFF Discovery!

Michelle Williams follows up her brilliant Blue Valentine performance with another emotionally rich, clear-eyed and candid portrait. She plays Margot, a young Toronto wife who’s having trouble sticking with her marriage to Lou (a touching Seth Rogen) — especially after she gets a whiff of the rickshaw driving artist Daniel (Luke Kirby) who lives across the street. Written and directed by Canadian Sarah Polley (Away From Her), this is a sexy, funny-sad women’s movie about fidelity and individual identity and what we often don’t talk about when we talk about marriage. It pulls no punches, yet radiates empathy and humor. Sarah Silverman steps in as Margot’s alcoholic sister-in law who calls the pretty pixie on her shit — basically saying that marriage, or coupling, is not a solution to a personal feeling of emptiness.  For me, the hard-won truth echoes a line from my novel, Playdate, when the philandering stay-at-home-dad Lance considers walking out on his wife and life and starting over but realizes that he would probably end up under a different roof with a different woman and maybe even a new cat but essentially recreate the same mess if he doesn’t own up to who he really is in his current marriage.

Polley has created a touching, funny, original film — the inane scene in the water aerobics class is just one in a series of refreshing set pieces. It’s a Toronto International Film Festival find that’s currently on the market — and while this may not be the kind of role that earns Williams another Oscar nomination, she certainly holds the movie together without one sticky false emotion. Men and women are bound to have different reactions to this film — even sisters may disagree — but the discussion it inspires will be revealing about the depth of the film, and the emotional state of the viewers.  Definitely, take this waltz.

Filed Under: Criticism, Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: Discoveries, Luke Kirby, Marriage, Michelle Williams, Playdate, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival

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