Michelle Williams

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Michelle Williams (Dying for Sex, Manchester by the Sea, Brokeback Mountain) is a Golden Globe-winning and Oscar and Tony-nominated actress. Michelle joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what constitutes an apex dinosaur skeleton, thinking she may have had one of the the last great American childhoods, and missing getting into good trouble and trying to recreate those opportunities for her kids. Michelle and Dax talk about why nature is the greatest impartial teacher of danger and safety, not realizing that she's the type of person that makes people nervous, and becoming emancipated at 15 before booking Dawson's Creek. Michelle explains whether she sensed what Brokeback Mountain would become while she was making it, seeing her work as a record of herself that she can leave for her kids, and being overwhelmed by emotion listening to the source material for Dying for Sex.

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3. 2:10:40keep knowing people past their and that the um grieving is how you keep someone