Interviewer :(scenes from DC on screen) Love her or hate her as Jen on Dawson's Creek, the feisty girl with a past who shakes up the sleepy town of Capeside, but this summer you'll find Michelle Williams shaking up the theater world in a dark off Broadway drama called "Killer Joe." Michelle : It's like a horrific, frightening, touching, hilarious, um, just a really irreverent original piece of work. It's about this white trash family living in this trailer park as you can see here in the middle of Texas and they hire a hit man to kill this guys ex-wife for insurance money then everything goes array. It's a good show. I: Yea. (laughs) Uplifting. Michelle plays Dottie, the daughter in this dysfunctional family who deals with her life of violence and abuse by shutting herself off from the world. Michelle said playing Dottie is helping her grow emotionally in ways her Dawson's Creek character cannot. MW: Doing this play has, has made me remember things that I've forgotten, whether good things or dramatic things. Its stretched all of my acting muscles and I think after I'll be a better actor and a better person. I: The 18 year old actress is also taking another leap in this new role. She has to do a nude scene 8 times a week in front of 200 strangers. MW: When I read the play, and I read that there was nudity, It didn't really hit me. I just thought that it was one of those things that could be sort of skirted around, or if I really didn't admit to myself then it wouldn't actually have to happen. Umm, until a couple weeks in rehearsal everyone's saying to me 'So, when are you going to take your clothes off?' I feel brave for the first time. I feel like I'm, umm, you know, out on a limb and I haven't fallen yet. I: As intimate and raw and challenging as the theater is, one of the biggest questions that jumps to mind is why isn't a hot star like Michelle Williams doing a blockbuster movie with a big paycheck like so many of her Dawson's Creek co-stars are? Well, the answer she says is quite simple. Nothing she has read this year has grabbed her interest. M: I wanted to find some sort of nobility left in this craft I love so much... and I've found it here. I've discovered the whole joy of acting. The joy of the process. I: Michelle spent the last summer filming the horror sequel "Halloween H2O" with Jamie Lee Curtis, and she says she is still looking for her next movie. She also just finished writing a movie script with friends about a Las Vegas brothel that she hopes to get into production. And of course she's returning to Dawson's Creek in the fall, but for now this Montana girl has found a home. It's on a little stage in Soho. At the Soho Playhouse, I'm Pamela Chan for the WB11 news at 10. Anchor: And if you like you can see Michelle Williams at the Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street till the end of June.