She lost love in abominable circumstances. In a relationship with Heath Ledger, whom she had met in 2004 on the set of the film The Secret of Brokeback Mountain, Michelle Williams had to face her death, in 2008, when the actor succumbed to the consequences of an accidental drug overdose. Water has flowed under the bridge since this terrible tragedy but the pain never really subsides. While she had accepted a role a little too close to reality, in the film Blood of Bradley Rust Gray, the former heroine of the series Dawson decided to back off.
She politely backed out of the project
The feature film, freely inspired by the death of Heath Ledger, will tell the story of a woman who travels to Japan after the death of her husband. During her stay, she will reunite with an old friend and learn to fall in love again. For Michelle Williams, inevitably, the echo of reality was too intense. “We shared the weight caused by the death of a loved one and this feeling that this weight will never go away.explains the director to Entertainment Weekly. When we were ready to start filming, she realized that all of this was still a little too new for her. She politely backed out of the project.” Far from being offended, the filmmaker finally entrusted this role to Carla Juri.
Not a day goes by that she doesn’t think of him. Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger have a daughter, named Matilda. The teenager is 16 years old and reminds her mother, on a daily basis, that she is the fruit of a lost love. If the wounds are not completely healed, Michelle Williams has managed to continue on her way. Fiancee – or even married? – to Thomas Kail, with whom she worked on the set of the series Fosse/Verdon, the actress gave birth to her second child during the year 2020… without knowing the exact date of birth of the baby, or even his first name. We had to wait until 2021 to see the lovebirds pose for the photographers at the Golden Globes, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, when they had already been together for more than two years. Step by step..