(3 Apr 2025)
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New York – 2 April 2025
1. (L-R) Thomas Kail and Michelle Williams
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Williams, actor:
"You know, I think that when you get a diagnosis — one of the things that I think the show speaks to is that when you get a diagnosis it doesn’t define you. You don’t want to become cancer and you can’t wipe away every other aspect of your humanity that you’ve been up until that point. It is another layer that is added, and that people still continue to still see a whole human being. Of course that’s who I see in James, I’ve known him since I was 15 year old, and I think that that’s what the show is really sort of urging a viewer to see is that a sick body can still be a sexual body, and it can still be a body that’s capable of extreme joy
and I think that that’s really what this show incaptures."
3. (L-R) Thomas Kail and Michelle Williams
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Williams, actor:
"I just loved the tone so much. When I read the script by Liz Meriwether I couldn’t believe how she had managed to mash all these things up and I thought I had never seen something like it where everything was happening all at once and I thought, ‘Wow this is um, it’s tonally dissonant which is actually I think what life feels like.’ There’s so many tones that happen to you in a day and that’s what I’m seeing in this script, I love it.’"
5. (L-R) Ben Shattuck and Jenny Slate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jenny Slate, actor – on her chemistry with Michelle Williams:
"We are two people that are lucky to have that chemistry. The script is incredible. Of course it’s a dream role for any actor and I think Michelle and I both really wanted to do our best with this, of course, but when I walked in the room to perform with her for the first time it was just so clear to me that she was just so sensitive and intuitive and open and when you can feel that in someone else it makes you feel safe enough to connect with them and I think it was rather instantaneous for us and we continue to build on that and that is a great delight and a privilege."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Boyer, executive producer:
"You know part of me – it’s like a two-sided coin – part of me is still bursting at the seems and I can’t believe that I got to help tell my beautiful front story and I got to executive produce and work with these brilliant human beings, and then there’s a little part of me that’s like the grief and the missing her and wishing she was here is happening so it’s all kind of bundled up together. It feels very human. It feels very Molly, actually."
8. (L-R) Rob Delaney, Jay Duplass, Michelle Williams, Jenny Slate, Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock
STORYLINE:
Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate play best friends confronting a terminal diagnosis in the new limited-series "Dying for Sex" for FX on Hulu.
Williams plays Molly, a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer who decides to spend the rest of her days living for pleasure.
Both Williams and Slate walked a red carpet in New York Wednesday to premiere the series. Williams said by working on the project, she’s learned that cancer patients are more than their diagnosis — and that’s how she sees her former "Dawson’s Creek" co-star, James Van Der Beek, who is battling colorectal cancer.
"Of course that’s who I see in James, I’ve known him since I was 15 year old, and I think that that’s what the show is really sort of urging a viewer to see," said Williams.
The show is based on a true story that was shared in a podcast of the same name.
All eight episodes drop Friday, April 4 on Hulu.
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