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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Academy Award-nominated actor Michelle Williams, star of the new FX series Dying for Sex, joins host Nikki Boyer to dive into the wild, heartbreaking, and deeply intimate story inspired by the hit Wondery podcast. She shares what it was like stepping into the role of Molly, filming some of the show’s rawest and most risqué moments, clicking instantly with Jenny Slate, and what the whole experience meant to her.
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0:00.0 | I'm so excited for going into production on dying for sex. |
0:13.0 | And it's just, it's, it's happening. |
0:17.0 | And I just, I don't even know how to react |
0:23.3 | because I feel like we've been waiting so long for this to happen. |
0:28.2 | I just... I'm a little beside myself. |
0:30.9 | When you lose someone that you love, you know, you talk to them. |
0:35.6 | I mean, I do. |
0:36.8 | And not out loud, usually. But they're still there in the room, you talk to them. I mean, I do. And not out loud, usually. |
0:38.8 | But they're still there in the room, you know. |
0:42.6 | And sometimes feeling them close makes you want to say something back. |
0:46.5 | And for me, that meant hitting record. |
0:49.2 | I am about to go on set today. |
0:52.4 | So I will be meeting everyone for the first time today. So I'm just |
0:58.3 | trying to play it cool. You know, like, hey, I love the ass. No big deal. But on the inside, |
1:04.8 | I feel like it's my first day of school. I started making these little voice memos during the |
1:10.5 | making of FX's new streaming |
1:12.2 | series on Hulu, Dying for Sex. And I wasn't really planning on sharing them. I just think I wanted to |
1:18.6 | feel like Molly was part of this moment. I'm walking around the set and all around are like little |
1:26.6 | signs that say dying for sex this way, dying for sex, wardrobe this way, production studios this way. |
1:32.3 | And I just, oh, I'm getting emotional shit. |
1:34.6 | It's like happening. |
1:36.1 | And everyone's working. |
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