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michelle-williams.orgThe cast and crew of “Oz the Great and Powerful” knew they were taking a leap of faith. After all, they were making a prequel to the 1939 classic that the Library of Congress lists as the most-watched movie of all time.
But in Michelle Williams’ case, making the movie, opening Friday, required a more literal leap.
While her fellow witches Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz had the benefit of wearing wire harnesses for their flying scenes, Williams had to hurl herself off a platform for a moment where her character, Glinda, jumps off a cliff.
“For those seconds while you’re free-falling, you feel like you’re jumping off a bridge. Meaning you don’t feel the support of a wire,” she says, able to smile about it now.
“That made me cry a lot,” she says. “I did not like that one bit.
“They had to work me up to it. I would jump off at 10 feet, and then they gradually would raise it up. I think they’d literally go by 5% increments so I could feel comfortable … it took a long time.”
Director Sam Raimi and producer Joe Roth took an even longer time to find the right actresses for this new trip down the Yellow Brick Road.
It’s an important bit of casting. Despite a cheap 1974 animated sequel, a 1978 musical remake and the dark, critically derided 1985 “Return to Oz,” “Oz the Great and Powerful” is the first to try and recapture the magic of the original film. And for Disney, the studio behind the curtain, owning the movie rights to 13 of author L. Frank Baum’s 14 “Oz” novels is a crown jewel to go along with Pixar, Marvel’s superheroes, the Muppets and, now, “Star Wars.”Williams, Kunis and Weisz, who play the witches Glinda and sisters Theodora and Evanora, respectively, can each individually cast a spell. Combined, their star wattage could probably power a small city. Williams was the hardest to woo, says producer Roth. Big-budget 3-D movies are not terra firma for the 32-year-old actress, Oscar-nominated for “Brokeback Mountain,” “Blue Valentine” and “My Week With Marilyn.” But Williams says she liked the script’s humor, which was neither sarcastic nor jaded. “I wanted to make something that had the possibility to delight my daughter and her friends,” Williams says of her and the late Heath Ledger’s 7-year-old, Matilda.
“It really felt like something you could wholeheartedly bring your family to, without having to sort of explain certain parts of the movie or cringe at something that may be a little bit inappropriate,” Williams says.
Which makes the makeup, the challenges and all those 60-foot leaps of faith worth it.
WALK & TALK
Newly single Michelle Williams gets giddy with her "mini-me," 7-year-old daughter Matilda, as they cross a New York City street on Wednesday