Michelle Williams has been busy the last month promoting her upcoming movie, My Week With Marilyn. Michelle is also on the cover of the December issue of Elle UK and here are some excerpts from the interview:
On Marilyn’s approval from the beyond:
“While we were filming, something came out in the
National Enquirer that a psychic had spoken to her and that she approved of what we were doing and she thought I was doing a really good job. So maybe she likes it!”
On mimicking Marilyn’s voice:
“I studied tapes. There’s really nothing that exists of her, that I could find anyway, that exists of her having a conversation with a friend…So there wasn’t a template that existed for her everyday vocal pattern, so at a certain point you have to make it imaginatively.”
On parallels to Marilyn’s life:
“There were so many connections and parallels for me in making this film. I was 30 when making the movie, the same age Marilyn was when she filmed
The Prince and the Showgirl, the picture our film is based around. We filmed in the same studio at Pinewood where that movie was made. I had the same dressing room Marilyn had used and we also shot at the same house, Parkside, where she had stayed during filming.
On the ‘private Marilyn’:
“I had always been more interested in the private Marilyn, and the unguarded Marilyn. Even as a young girl, my primary concern wasn’t with this larger than life personality smiling back from the wall but with what was going on underneath.”
