vanityfair.com“I Never Gave Up on Love”: Michelle Williams on Her Very Private Wedding and Very Public Fight for Equal Pay
Michelle Williams has long shunned the spotlight. Now, thrust into the battle over Hollywood’s gender pay gap—and with a superhero movie on the way and new husband by her side—she’s ready for her next chapter, both professional and personal.
by Amanda Fortini
Photographs by Collier Schorr
Styled by Samira Nasr
At the end of November, as Ridley Scott and the cast of All the Money in the World were in the midst of nine days of re-shoots in Rome and London, The Washington Post ran an article about pay disparities among the cast, specifically between Mark Wahlberg, the male lead, and Michelle Williams, his female co-star. Exactly how egregious the gap we would not learn until early January, when USA Today reported that Wahlberg, who in August 2017 was named the highest-paid actor of the year by Forbes, with annual earnings of $68 million, was being paid $1.5 million. Williams, on the other hand, who has been nominated for four Oscars, five Golden Globes (she won for My Week with Marilyn in 2012), and a Tony, was paid an $80 per diem, which amounted to less than $1,000 total. The additional filming was to re-create Kevin Spacey’s scenes after the actor was accused of sexual misconduct and replaced with Christopher Plummer. “It wouldn’t have occurred to me to ask for money for the re-shoots. I just wanted to do the right thing on his behalf,” says Williams, referring to Anthony Rapp, the actor who accused Spacey of sexually assaulting him when he was 14 years old.
It’s a muggy afternoon in June when Williams and I meet at a Williamsburg hotel that’s all concrete floors and hip austerity, and sits at what might be the most hectic, throbbing corner in Brooklyn. The actress, one of the borough’s better-known residents, has lived in the Boerum Hill and Red Hook neighborhoods since 2005. On the day we meet she is about to move to a new part of Brooklyn, a location she has not yet disclosed, with a partner she has not yet made public. If you know anything about Williams, it’s that she is the Thomas Pynchon of the film world—almost immaculately private.
continued: Cover Story: Michelle Williams on Her Private Wedding and Public Fight for Equal Pay
The only way I've figured is to alphabetise the threads and just find it that way...how do i view the old michelle threads from 2005-2009 and on? i can only access this thread and not even the one before it