our first guest is one of the stars of the Dawson's Creek program she's
also in a new film entitled me without you it opens July 5th
in selected cities just pray to God your city has been selected
ladies and gentlemen here's the lovely Michelle Williams
you're on the year on the show like three years ago or something right that's been a little while
yeah how long have you been on the Dawson's Creek program five years five years and you
started wouldn't let me guess here like when you were 15 or 16. yeah is that right so you
so you you're now uh you know you know you can figure it out you're now 21. 21 years old well
that that's great because you you went from like adolescence to to Young adulthood all on the the
television isn't that interesting kind of don't you think and sort of unfortunate I mean I don't
know if you want to capture 16 forever but I have yeah also you still you're playing 16 on the show
that's not right no no but when I was 16 I was on the show now I've aged as my characters age so
are you the same age on the program as you're in real life no I'm a little bit older in real life
you're a little bit older and really now why don't they when we ever catch up when will this
constant discrepancy uh so so tell us what's going on on Dawson's Creek
uh what is going on I think that when it last left off
um Dawson and I had just slept together for the first time wow his virginity wow there you go
and what what's that like as an actor and that's this and that's
the storyline the idea is that something you look forward to is that something you
think oh how what are we going to do here I mean it's all suggested I mean
you don't really see anything graphically depicted of course do you no of course not
no and it's no I wouldn't think so
and it was on television so it was on set in sheets and it was lit by candles and nice
yeah yeah and and is that what's so you and you and Dawson are now uh together is that
right we were for a short period but then we had to break up because I'm not his true
love you're not his true love no well what was this thing with the satin sheets sex
oh that was just sex oh yeah sex that's all that was yikes a Hootie um and and how much
longer will you continue on the how old is Dawson on the show versus his age in real life
I'm not quite sure how old James vandervick is but I think we're all playing about 18 right now I see
and how long will you continue with the program I think it's one more year we all had six and a half
year contracts and at the end of this next year that'll fulfill the obligation and I haven't heard
any talk of it and are you uh apprehensive uh do you have trepidations about leaving do you want to
leave are you excited you were eager to move on um I think it's a mixture of both for everybody
um you know I have grown up in Wilmington really and those people have become like family so it'll
be strange but I'm excited to see like what hap like the way that my life and everybody's lives
open up after this commitment is fulfilled and then and how is the creek is it uh I mean was it
been a drought up here in the Northeast and has it affected the creek is it all right no it's
flowing just fine well that's good that's good um uh now when you realize that you wanted to act for
the first time what was what was your life doing then that's a clumsy way to express it but you
know were you were you like just a little kid or did it come to you later or how did that happen
um I was pretty young I was I remember going to see my first play when I was like eight or
nine what did you go see it was Tom Sawyer and it was like a children's production
um but I just remember clinging onto the edge of my seat very excited and it's all that I've really
been doing ever since I've never done anything else yeah so that's so you knew immediately that's
great now have you ever met anybody in in acting who never really quite knew the way you knew
are you referring to something particular no no but you know what I'm saying I mean it's I
I haven't met many people in my life who one day there was a moment when they realized yes
this is what I'm going to find fulfilling and rewarding and I'll pursue this the rest of my
life you don't find many people for whom that has happened I'm just saying are there people
in acting who are just in there well I guess you know this is what I'm doing now but I don't know
so I mean I think I was I I mean a lot of them I think it's all right to not know what
you want to do at any point in your life but I was I guess I've been lucky that it's just
um it's all I've ever really wanted to do that was a pathetic question wasn't it it was a little
it was a little hard to answer I wasn't quite sure what to do with it no I don't blame it right
I don't feel I may have the Lyme disease
and where do you live now you see you spend when you're shooting the the Dawson's Creek
show you're down there into Wilmington isn't it and where are you living uh is that where
it is full time yeah it's there nine months here and then New York has become my adult
home is it must be great fun for you huh it is it's an amazing City isn't it yeah
what do you do in New York and you're here what do I do well I'm doing a play right now um so I'm
working at night and then during the day I just you know I think I take advantage of the city the
way everybody does taking the Subways and walking around yeah go to museums and that kind of thing
go to museums yeah yeah do you well no I'm here pretty much tied up with the show all day I I have
been to museums I've been to many museums here in the city years and years ago when I you know had
free time to go to museums but I don't and and and the minute I get fired I'll be going back
the very minute
um
in your big Mets fan I guess huh I've
played with Brian and Eddie it's fans and I've recently become anointed I have the
Hat it's not the old school hat but it's like the player's uniform hats now we've gone to a
couple games we're into the subway series which is very exciting it's interesting to be a part
of something like that and now you have like an affinity with anybody that walks down the street
wearing a Mets fan and you immediately don't like Yankees fins um but I became they persuaded me to
be a Mets fan because they said that it's like the love of a good woman like the Mets lose so
often that they'll break your heart but you keep staying and staying and staying when you should
but that's that's true you know that's why a lot of Baseball fans just hang on for you know
Generations yeah and I think but what happened to the Mets last night didn't they have some
sort of heartbreaking defeat and late inning some crushing home run that sent them back
to the clubhouse I don't know I was working maybe I'm not that big of a fan I guess not
um yeah what's the matter with me and tell us about about the film this is no you had you had to
use an English accent for the film yeah it's got to be hard isn't it I did I I did something that
could have borderlined on being obnoxious but I stayed in the accent the entire time that I was in
um London but I didn't have friends and family around so it wasn't what is the accent let
me hear it did you have somebody teach you the accent or you just heard it from being there you
learned it from being there no I had somebody who stayed with me the whole time and we did
like book warm-ups in the morning and little silly actions well say something in in British
I think a lovely way to begin but uh did you find that because I would guess I don't know
this I'm not a linguist but I would guess that it requires different facial muscles to talk with an
accent did you find at the end of the day your face would get tired what's the matter with me
what the hell is wrong with me
um but it's a lovely film perfectly valid question is it really well that'll be the first one tonight
but let's look at the cliff
it's about it's about it's a it's a coming-of-age story as they say young girls in Great Britain
yeah and it carries the friendship through from when they're adolescents to when they're in their
late 20s um and it's just the story of um it's a really complex look at female friendships and
about how they can be obsessive and manipulative as well as um you know lots of fun and this is in
our earlier stage is it like that Yaya Sisterhood thing I haven't seen that all right here we go
the name of the movie of course is me without you I really hope my city has been selected
it's like a lot of fun well it's nice to see you again very nice enjoy your summer in New York City
and good luck okay come back again Michelle uh Williams everybody we'll be right back
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