Michelle im ELLE und Cosmo

In den Juni-Ausgaben der COSMOPOLITAN und ELLE findet ihr je einen einseitigen Artikel über Michelle. Achtung, es sind die US-Ausgaben! Beide Magazine gibt es in größeren Kiosken oder in Zeitungsläden in Bahnhöfen zu kaufen. COSMOPOLITAN - June 2002

Fun Fearless Female

Dawson's Creek Darling Michelle Williams on her upcoming heavy duty flick, Prozac Nation and what really makes her happy.

Actress Michelle Williams is just as much the been-there-done-that chick as Jen Lindley, her character on Dawson's Creek. For starters, Michelle hates high school, left home at age 15, and moved to Los Angeles to act. "I know what it's like to be a girl who moves to a new place, and it isn't all that palatable," says the 21-year-old Montana native. But after five years of playing Jen, she admits she's getting a little antsy. "The initial excitement of the show has worn off, but I still love the people I work with and I've come to like Wilmington, North Carolina [where we film]. L.A.'s not for me and I can forget that Hollywood even exists." While Michelle might not love Tinseltown, Tinseltown is digging her. She garnered praise for her 1999 performance in Dick, and this month, she'll appear with her good friend Christina Ricci in Prozac Nation. Michelle plays a Harvard student whose roomate suffers from depression. "It's an important movie to see--antidepressants are probably the most prescribed drug in America." What keeps Michelle in high spirits is her new beau (he's not in the biz) and some un-Hollywood hobbies like cooking (and eating!), watching The Golden Girls, and relaxing at the beach. But at the rate her career is taking off, her beach-bum days are numbered.

By Lesley Goober ELLE - June 2002

FIRST BUZZ

"Reformed School Girl" With A Surprisingly Mature Turn In Me Without You, Michelle Williams Graduates From Creek Goddess to Screen Siren Before discussing her new movie, Michelle Williams, the twenty-one-year-old star of Dawson's Creek, gives an update on the WB show. Her character, Jen Lindley, the gradually reforming vixen, has recently deflowered the saintly Dawson Leery. "We got consumed by our passion, sliding all around on these satin sheets," she says, "rolling her eyes and squirming. It was really strange. For years, people have been talking about Dawson losing his virginity. I never thought it would be my job." Williams's apparent late-late-adolescent discomfort is surprising, given her self-possessed prime-time persona. Then again, the actress, who's poised for the American premiere of her delicately captivating turn as Holly, the brainy sidekick to flamboyant, manipulative Marina (played by Anna Friel) in British director Sandra Goldbacher's bittersweet Me Without You, has a knack for confounding expectations. "As soon as I met Michelle, I realized she's actually very unlike her [Dawson's Creek] character," Goldbacher says. "There's a stillness, a subtleness, to her; the intensity is all there in her thoughts." Williams, whose curvy, petite form has been reproduced not only on posters but wallpaper,could easily just make serial teenybopper blockbusters. The Montana-born actress moved to San Diego with her family at nine, began performing in local theater, and, self-directed from the start, became legally emancipated at sixteen in order to get acting work as a minor in L.A. (Williams says that at first her mom was "horrified and sad," but since she's had no shortage of roles and has repaired the family "rift," she has no regrets.) After doing the scream-queen thing in Halloween H20, Williams made some atypical moves: playing a sexually abused (and frequently nude) teen in the 1999 Off-Broadway play Killer Joe and a flower child in love with Chloe Sevigny's greaser chick in the HBO drama If These Walls Could Talk 2. Looking back, Williams says, "There was this sexual theme. I was interested in sex in my own life-not questioning whether I wanted men or women, but exploring sex in the context of an adult life. I couldn't really talk about it yet, but somebody I was playing could." If her career has an ongoing M.O., she adds, it's "to make choices reflecting things I'm interested in, so I have the most stuff to say." Williams saw an opportunity to plumb new territory in Me Without You, the story of two North London best friends who grow up next door to each other and come to blows as young adults. "Starting when I was little, I had these vicious, intense friendships," she says. "I still have complex female friendships. "Williams's grasp of the material is palpable. She's exactly right for the role," Friel says. "Her sheer commitment to the character and the accent was massively impressive." Holly gradually acquires enough spine to stand up to Marina in a maturation that feels utterly real-as if it's pouring straight out of Williams's heart. In addition to appearing with Christina Ricci in Prozac Nation this spring, Williams will spend her hiatus from the Creek starring in a New York theater production of Mike Leigh's Smelling a Rat as a "middle-class girl with a touch of Cockney who has proper ambitions." Williams isn't sure yet what personal connection has drawn her to this project, but, laughing, she says, "That's what I'm going to find out." And the fast money's on her locating the soul of this character, too.

-Louisa Kamps, ELLE (June 2002) Die Übersetzungen folgen hoffentlich bald. Quellen: ELLE, Cosmopolitan, The Williams Center