Michelle Williams

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

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 to leave for her kids, and being overwhelmed by emotion listening to the source material for Dying for Sex.

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0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.9	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.1	I'm Dax Shepard.
0:17.3	You know, I saw a comment.
0:19.3	I said Dan Shepard, as I do often. Yeah. And someone wrote,
0:23.2	why Dan? And I wrote, I know you're a new listener. Welcome. Oh, nice. And then the person wrote,
0:31.6	you're right. I started listening like eight weeks ago or something. Oh, fun. Yeah. And I said,
0:36.0	oh, I just get bored saying my name.
0:37.9	Right. Yeah. Oh, I thought, I thought, maybe he was asking, like, what's, is there an original impetus for it?
0:46.5	I mean, I always think of the worst thing, right? That's my gift. So my assumption when someone says that is more like they've found out Dax was a bullshit
0:56.8	name.
0:57.3	Like it was my stage name.
0:59.3	That's what I maybe fear people think.
1:02.4	Oh, that's funny.
1:03.4	Anyways, I'm joined by Monica Lily Padman, real name.
1:06.7	Real name.
1:07.2	On your birth certificate and your driver's license.
1:09.3	Today we have one of the most acclaimed actors we've had on the show.
1:13.6	Yes.
1:14.0	Michelle Williams.
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