Why Michelle Williams hopes her kids watch her VERY raunchy series about a woman who sleeps with 200 men
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Michelle Williams is getting ready for the debut of her racy new FX on Hulu TV series Dying for Sex.
And this week the actress shared that she hopes her own kids see the show some day even though it is racy.
The 44-year-old mother of four had 19-year-old Matilda with her late partner Heath Ledger, and shares three young kids - 4-year-old Hart and kids born in 2022 and 2025 with husband Thomas Kail, whose names and gender orientation have not been publicly revealed.
The five-time Oscar-nominated actress plays Molly Kochan, who leaves her longtime husband to explore her sexuality, after being diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer.
Williams even took part in a racy photoshoot to promote the series, which is now streaming on Hulu.
She was asked during a press conference if she had any reservations about her children seeing the raunchy content.
She admitted there may have been some reservations in the back of her mind, but at the same time she would welcome her children watching the show, when they are old enough.
Michelle Williams is getting ready for the debut of her racy new FX on Hulu TV series Dying for Sex, with the actress revealing she hopes her own kids see the show some day.
The five-time Oscar-nominated actress plays Molly Kochan, who leaves her longtime husband to explore her sexuality, after being diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer .
Williams even took part in a racy photoshoot to promote the series , which is now streaming on Hulu
'Somewhere maybe like in the way, way, way back of my head, I hear somebody saying to me, "Don’t do something that your grandmother couldn’t see," but also in the forefront of my mind, what I hear is like, "Do make things that you would want your children to see, age-appropriate," but I want to leave a record of who I was,' Williams said.
'And if my children are interested in it, they can pick that up and they can learn what I was doing when I wasn’t with them,' the actress added.
She continued, 'I’ve always wanted to make something that I would feel proud of and that even [my kids] as they grew up could feel a deeper understanding of who I was and what I was interested in.'
'And, so, I stand behind this, and went wholeheartedly into the experience,' Williams said of the show.
The series is based on the Wondery podcast of the same name by Nikki Boyer, which was recorded in the final months of the real Molly Kochan's life.
The podcast debuted in February 2019, with Molly succumbing to breast cancer after three years of battling the disease, just one month later in March 2019 at just 45.
Williams discovered the podcast soon after it debuted, telling Vanity Fair last month, 'It bowled me over, I was blubbering. I couldn’t explain why it had moved me so much.'
Like the Molly in the show, the real Molly left her husband behind to explore her sexuality, with Williams saying she was drawn to Molly's 'bravery.'
'Somewhere maybe like in the way, way, way back of my head, I hear somebody saying to me, "don’t do something that your grandmother couldn’t see," but also in the forefront of my mind, what I hear is like, "do make things that you would want your children to see, age-appropriate," but I want to leave a record of who I was,' Williams said
'And if my children are interested in it, they can pick that up and they can learn what I was doing when I wasn’t with them,' the actress added
The series is based on the Wondery podcast of the same name by Nikki Boyer, which was recorded in the final months of the real Molly Kochan's life.
'This is a real person that we’re talking about. Can you imagine what people thought about what she was doing or what people said? “Oh, Molly is going on some sort of…”' Williams said.
'She didn’t care what people said. She didn’t care what people thought. She didn’t care what people saw. That’s one of the things that really got me—she rewrote all of the rules,' Williams said.
She admitted to being 'super game' for exploring all sorts of sexual positions for the show, adding, 'I wasn’t surprised to find myself in a number of different positions.'
'Everybody says, “Oh, the thing about sex scenes is they’re not really that sexy.” And it’s true, they’re not. You’re trying to not rub each other’s makeup off and also trying to block that thing that’s not supposed to be seen and work with the camera angle. Unfortunately or fortunately or whatever, it’s as technical as hitting your mark,' she joked.
