Michelle Williams and Thomas Kail had a date night time to die for.
The actress, 44, and the Tony-winning stage director, 48, stepped out collectively for the New York Metropolis premiere at SVA Theater of FX and Hulu’s dramedy Dying for Intercourse, wherein Williams will star within the main position. Williams wore an elegant lavender chiffon robe, whereas Kail opted for a traditional black silhouette.
Williams and Kail married in 2020, after initially assembly on the set of the FX restricted collection Fosse/Vernon in 2018. Williams starred as Gwen Verdon, whereas Kail was a producer and director on the venture.
Williams was beforehand married to musician Phil Everum for a 12 months earlier than their divorce in 2019. She additionally shares a daughter, Matilda Ledger, 19, with the late Heath Ledger. Kail was beforehand married to actress Angela Christian from 2006 to 2019. Williams and Kail have two kids collectively.
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Williams’ breakout efficiency was her position as Jen Lindley within the WB’s (now the CW) hit teen cleaning soap Dawson’s Creek. Within the years following the 2003 finale, Williams continued to star in status movies, and earned her first Academy Award nomination for Greatest Supporting Actress in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain in 2005.
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Dying for Intercourse will observe a girl identified with metastatic breast most cancers on a journey to reclaim her sexuality post-divorce whereas battling the sickness. The present relies on the Wondery podcast of the identical identify, and also will be produced by three-time Emmy winner Nikki Boyer.
Boyer initially launched the podcast in 2020, to assist inform her greatest good friend Molly’s story. Molly, just like the upcoming Hulu present’s protagonist, left an sad marriage in pursuit of sexual experimentation and “feeling alive,” per this system’s official Wondery web page. Jenny Slate additionally stars as a personality based mostly on Boyer.
In an unique interview with PEOPLE on the crimson carpet Wednesday, Williams stated the story’s central relationship – the friendship between Molly and Nikki – made her assume “much more deeply on how essential” her feminine mates are.
As for constructing chemistry with Slate, Williams stated it was “tremendous straightforward.”
“It was actually not a building venture. It was similar to a kind of falling into one another form of factor,” Williams advised PEOPLE.
In an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Williams stated that portraying this character “taught her rather a lot.”
The collection additionally stars Sissy Spacek, Rob Delaney, Esco Jouley, David Rasche and Jay Duplass. Dying for Intercourse premieres on Hulu Friday, April 4.
