| E! interview with Michelle Williams You four must get mobbed every time you go out in Wilmington. What's it like? On the one hand, I try not to let it bother me. You're like, "I don't care. I'm going to the shopping mall anyway. I'm not gonna play into that fear." On the other hand, it does bother me, because when you're at the mall, you're constantly, like, looking over your shoulder and making sure school didn't just get out! That's the trick. You've got to figure out your time. If you go from about 10 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon, you're fine. But as soon as school gets out, you want to steer clear of the mall! You're only 18. How is it living on your own? I've got four or five amazing friends, and that has replaced family in a lot of ways. Those are the people I know I can trust and rely upon at any given time. I haven't had that before with friends, so it's great to have that kind of implicit trust with people. What kind of stuff do you and your friends do down South? Bowling! There's nothing else to do. I used to be an excellent bowler. When I first started bowling, I was, like, amazing--this child genius. Recently, I've started sucking. Is it at all difficult for you to handle the fact that over just the last few months you've emerged as this big star? Well, first of all, I wouldn't say I've emerged as a big star. I've just sort of...emerged! Yeah, it is, in the sense of having to uproot my life. You know, everything that comforts me, from my favorite coffee shop to my friends who are only four minutes away. It's difficult to imagine moving your life to a city you would never pick other than the fact that your job forces you to be there. So, there's the downside. What's the upside about your newfound success? Ummm, just the fact that I've been working nonstop for a year. I'm paying my rent here! I love the work itself, and I love to be working. It's the peripheral stuff that really tires you out, stuff I never expected to encounter in this business. It's the photo shoots, the frickin' Leno interviews. It's those kinds of things that just drain you. It has all happened for you at such a young age. I tend to be really determined. Once I set my mind to something, it's set. Has there been any point where you've thought about doing something else? There are always those times. When you don't work for three months, you become really depressed, and you're constantly questioning yourself and your reasons and if you can or can't cut it. But at the same time, there's a surviving thread of hope. Being in Hollywood at such a young age, do you ever feel like your Dawson's character, Jen--like you've experienced some things you wish you hadn't? Actually, I don't think there's anything I want to take back, no matter how bad and crazy it was, just because it has all lent itself to a good sort of street smarts that I needed. It's something that helps with Jen. Speaking of which, Kevin Williamson said Jen's gonna get a little bitchier this season. Oh yeah? You probably know more than I do. Yeah, I hear Jen might be returning to her bad-girl roots. Melodrama! We love that. It's fun to do stuff that's sort of wrong--challenging, a little risqu�. How would you contrast Jen with your role of Molly in Halloween H20? Well, I don't think there's anything--or anyone--Jen hasn't touched. Okay, so she's got the sex thing down pat, and Molly's got the violence thing. Yeah, but luckily for me, I didn't see the woman getting her throat slashed until I saw the movie, and I didn't see guts being ripped out by a knife. I was lucky enough to be removed from that. But you did have to run from a guy in a rubber mask? Tell us about that. It's exhausting. By the 12th take of running in the dark, when you're not very coordinated and there's a knife at your back, it gets a little old. You have to keep up that energy all night, and you have to keep that tension in your shoulders. And that out-of-breath thing. It's hard work being in a horror movie! Do you ever just want to yell, "Cut!"? Absolutely. When it's like 3:30 in the morning and you're just exhausted, it's like: "I gotta go home. I can't perform right now. This is an ungodly hour, and I'm about to pass out, and I'm worried I'm not doing as well as I can." There were only two daytime shoots. You have to completely readjust your sleeping schedule. You know, usually, the scream queens have at least one sex scene, but you didn't. What was up with that? I don't know. I should've had to bare my breasts to get this role. You'd think so! Were you happy not to? To not show my breasts? Yes! They're mine! Are you open to being in more horror movies like Neve Campbell with the Scream franchise? I think I'm done. You tend to exhaust a subject, and it's not really all that conducive to growth to repeat the same sort of film. How'd you feel about wearing that schoolgirl uniform? That Catholic schoolgirl uniform was the brunt of many jokes from the grips. It was like, "Let me bring that home for me and my wife! If I take you out to dinner, will you wear that outfit?" Are you into clothes? I like them. I just don't like them on me! Going to look at them on hangers, yeah. Do you have good fashion sense? Someone else picks out my outfits! I wish I had some. I'm blushing because I'd be so embarrassed. I'd be a geek if it was left up to me. |
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