Michelle Williams believes the massive success of Brokeback Mountain was quite stupendous for her. In her appearance on the Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist, the 42-year-old actress talked about how her first Oscar nomination in the 2005 film left her creatively frozen for quite some time.
She had no idea where she was supposed to go in her career from that point. The actor, who had turned 25 when she received her first nomination, stated that it was unnerving for her after that. In the movie, she played the role of Alma Beers Del Mar, the wife of the late Heath Ledger’s character. She spoke about how this sudden attention towards her was quite destabilizing for the young actor. Before her nomination, no one had paid any attention to her, but now she was constantly thinking about making mistakes and the consequences of them.
Michelle Williams Secures Her 4th Oscar Nomination With The Fabelmans
Before her role in Brokeback Mountain, Michelle Williams had already tasted fame with her work on Dawson’s Creek. The teen soap actor then went on to work in several big-screen movies like Dick and Prozac Nation, and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. But it was her role in Brokeback Mountain, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and her late partner Heath Ledger, that catapulted her to stardom.
The movie was nominated for 6 Academy Awards in 2006 and won 3. Ledger and Gyllenhaal were also nominated for their roles as Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist respectively. Since her Oscar nomination for Brokeback Mountain, Williams has been nominated for the Academy Awards on 4 more occasions- in 2011 for Blue Valentine, 2012 for My Week with Marilyn, 2017 for Manchester By The Sea, and 2023 for The Fablemans.
Speaking about The Fabelmans- directed by Steven Spielberg, Michelle Williams spoke about how it was difficult once the project was over. What was amazing about these movies getting the nominations was it allowed them to get back together one last time.
