Michelle Williams takes on the iconic role of Marilyn Monroe in The Weinstein Company‘s critically acclaimed “My Week with Marilyn.” Earning for Williams a Best Actress Oscar nomination, the film is based on Colin Clark’s book of the same name and chronicles his time spent working with Monroe while she was in England shooting the romantic comedy “The Prince and the Showgirl” in 1956.
Michelle Williams sat down with journalists to talk about portraying Monroe, the film, shooting her current role of Glinda the good witch in Sam Raimi’s “Oz: The Great and Powerful” and her six-year-old daughter Matilda with late actor Heath Ledger.
Question: Did you have an awareness of Marilyn Monroe and her starpower when you were younger?
Michelle Williams:
