Michelle Williams plays a struggling sculptor in the Cannes competition title 'Showing Up,' her fourth collaboration with Reichardt.
initially started as a biopic project on Canadian artist Emily Carr but shifted after visiting Vancouver. “We thought Emily Carr was this really obscure artist and then we went to Canada and we found she’s like the Elvis of painters in Canada,” the director quipped. The project then shifted to become a portrait of a truly unknown artist, working at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland .
Instead, Raymond said, he and Reichardt wanted to embed Lizzie’s art in the context of her relationships to the people around her. Williams found herself fielding a few animal-based questions, including one focused on her on-screen relationship with Ricky, a tomcat that has several scene-stealing moments inOne thing about working with animals, Williams noted, is “they don’t know there’s a camera on [so] they are always in the moment and they demand the same thing of you. They can make really make you look like an actor.”“I once worked with a monkey [on] who really impressed me,” Williams said.
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