Author: Ryan Roschke / Source: POPSUGAR Entertainment
In many ways, Venom is set to buck the norm when it comes to superhero movies. Sure, it may have the same basic structure — hero develops insane powers, villain makes a lot of trouble, hero saves the day — but there’s so much more to the vicious antihero than meets the eye.
This departure can largely be attributed to the interesting cast. Sure, Tom Hardy can pull off a slightly campy man-eating alien, but we also have Riz Ahmed as a supervillian and Jenny Slate as a morally questionable scientist. And then there’s Michelle Williams, who plays the brazen, bold Anne Weying aka Eddie Brock’s love interest.It’s a one-two punch, namely because Williams has never acted in a blockbuster action, let alone a superhero, movie of this kind of scale before. What’s more, Anne isn’t your typical supporting woman, either; she saves Eddie Brock multiple times and she’s front and center fighting against the bad guys. Just ahead of the film’s release, we sat down with Williams to talk about everything. Why she signed up for the film, how she gave the character her own unique spin, and what we can expect in the inevitable sequels.
POPSUGAR: So what inspired you to take on this film?
Michelle Williams: [Pointing to a poster of Tom Hardy] That guy. He’s so talented in everything that he does. He does things that you’ve never seen before, but at the same time you really believe are happening or happened, which is such a rare quality. And I was just so curious about his process and how he got there, and if I could hang out in the ring with him and go the distance. So the idea of working with him was super appealing. The film was shot in Atlanta. It keeps me on the East Coast. It’s one of my directives. And I thought it would be fun for a change of scenery to do something that’s outside of my comfort zone and to just be bigger.
PS: Right, and a superhero movie hasn’t been in your wheelhouse before. How did it feel kind of settling into this?
MW: For me, I don’t have to don a special suit or anything. So, that part of it didn’t feel too intimidating. It was really just the kind of opening myself up to — when you make a movie, it’s not really just that you think, “Oh, my Gosh. So many people are going to see this.” It’s that you’re making it in front of so many people. The crew is 100 plus people deep. And so whatever you’re doing is being observed by more people than on the movies that I usually make. Could I feel comfortable in that environment? It…
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