She’s a former child actor who prefers indie movies ... She’s at Cannes promoting her new film, “Showing Up.”
This is Michelle Williams. #Cannes2022
This is Michelle Williams. #Cannes2022
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00:00So the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color,
00:03because she stands to make $0.52 on the dollar
00:06compared to her white male counterpart,
00:09tells you what she needs in order to do her job,
00:13listen to her, believe her.
00:15I wouldn't have been able to do this
00:40without employing a woman's right to choose.
00:44To choose when to have my children and with whom.
01:14I honestly don't remember my first kiss.
01:26I don't remember it, but it could have been on Baywatch.
01:45It was really hard when I started out,
01:47and just like sort of the bottom of absolutely every barrel.
01:52And like my first agent was also a part-time undertaker.
02:14My little friend is from New York,
02:40and when she's in town, I take her to John and Vinny's
02:43here in Los Angeles, it's our favorite pizza place.
02:46And then she orders, and I eat it.
03:00I think it's kind of a mysterious response system
03:04I've realized.
03:05Like the first time I read something,
03:07either it ignites, excites, or ignites, ignites, excites.
03:13What's another word that rhymes with that?
03:16Something in me, and then I can't stop thinking about it,
03:18and it just sort of creeps up on me,
03:20and that's really how I make my decisions.
03:22So I try not to analyze it too much,
03:24because I find that that takes away some of the mystery that's
03:28inherent and good.
03:37It's the greatest gift, I think, is finding each other.
03:55And now we have a family, and a beautiful life,
03:59and synchronicity on a grand scale.
04:01Do things get any better than this?
04:03We ask ourselves that each day.
04:04Yeah, actually, we talk about that a lot.
04:06We hope that they do.
04:07They do.
04:08Every day, it does.
04:09One thing that I've found very hard about it
04:11is that I don't know what to do with my life.
04:13I don't know what to do with my life.
04:15I don't know what to do with my life.
04:17I don't know what to do with my life.
04:19I don't know what to do with my life.
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04:31I don't know what to do with my life.
04:33I don't know what to do with my life.
04:35I don't know what to do with my life.
04:37One thing that I've found very hard about acting
04:39is all the transience,
04:41and sometimes I feel like I just live my life
04:45in a circle of hellos and goodbyes.
05:07It's hard.
05:09It's hard.
05:11It's hard.
05:13It's hard.
05:15It's hard.
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05:25It's hard.
05:27It's hard.
05:29It's hard.
05:31It's hard.
05:33It's hard.
05:35It's hard.
05:41I love what I do
05:43and I love being inside of it,
05:45and the experience of watching it
05:47takes me to the outside
05:49of the thing that I did,
05:50and my relationship with that is not as healthy.
06:05I mean they're all hard, they all have their specific challenges, but at the same time
06:15it's also like this is the work I always wanted to make since I was a kid so I just feel like
06:19I'm a lucky girl.
06:44Imagine a workplace where women don't have to spend extra or any energy fighting for
06:51fair pay or defending their rights, but can instead focus that energy on the fullest expression
06:57of the task at hand and enjoy both the pride that brings and the product of that pride,
07:04which is fair and equal compensation for every woman.
07:08Now nobody's silent about anything any longer and so if you pay me unfairly people are going
07:16to find out about it and you're going to look like a real jerk.