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Michelle Williams “knew what she was getting into” when she agreed to portray varied sexual exploits in her new miniseries, “Dying for Sex.”
“I knew what I signed up for,” the actress, who plays a woman with terminal cancer sowing her oats before her death, exclusively told Page Six at the show’s premiere earlier this week.
“I just kind of take a deep breath and hope that this thing that I’m interested in, for whatever reason, that I find particularly moving and funny has a place in other people’s lives as well,” Williams, 44, added.
“Dying for Sex” is based on the hit 2020 podcast series by Molly Kochan and Nikki Boyer.
The podcast explored Kochan’s sexual encounters after she received a terminal diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer.
Some of the exploits included making out with a mortician while he wore full clown makeup, an awkward car romp with a guy who couldn’t maintain his enthusiasm, and a Ryan Reynolds lookalike with a predilection for machoism.
Kochan died on March 8, 2019, at age 45.
Williams plays Kochan, who left her unhappy, sexually repressed marriage with the help and support of her best friend, Boyer, played by Jenny Slate.
The Oscar nominee confessed that “there are words that float to your head like ’embarrassing’ or ‘risky’” when she had to portray onscreen orgasms, but “the truth is that they have no place when you’re trying to make a piece of work.”
Williams said that she dismissed any anxiety by popping “them like the little bubbles that they are.”
“The Greatest Showman” star is hoping that the show will prompt women to think about and explore their own sexual desires.
“I’ve been hearing women saying, ‘We’re going to have a viewing party, we’re going to be watching this together,’” she shared, “and that’s really exciting for me to feel like I’m a part of something that people connect to.”
Other celebs on the red carpet included Slate, Delaney, Jay Duplass, Williams’ husband Thomas Kail, and her best friend and frequent plus-one, Busy Philipps.
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