Michelle Williams

In the new series Dying for Sex, Michelle Williams plays Molly, a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis who decides to take ownership of her own sexual pleasure. Williams says the central idea of the show — that women should feel free to pursue their own pleasure — is a notion that seemed foreign when she was growing up.

Michelle Williams plays settler Emily Tetherow in Kelly Reichardt's frontier drama Meek's Cutoff. Both Williams and Reichardt join Fresh Air's Terry Gross for a discussion about the film, which was shot with exquisite landscapes and virtually no dialogue.

The actor stars opposite Michelle Williams in a new drama about a couple whose relationship has soured. He tells Terry Gross it wasn't the average film shoot: Among other things, he moved in for a month with Williams and their onscreen child.