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For That Body? I'd Give Michelle Williams ALL the Oscars

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (31)

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michellewilliams_gq1__120117210626.jpgMichelle Williams, arguably the best actress of her generation, has been nominated for Oscars twice now, and has yet to go home with a statue. It’s certainly possible that this will be her year, thanks to a divine performance in an otherwise underwhelming My Week with Marilyn. Just to make sure, the new GQ hits stands just as Oscar nominations are being turned in. Either that, or she’s re-working her image for Glinda the Good Witch in the upcoming Oz: The Great and Powerful. Whatever it is, if you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t, use Fotoshop by Adobé, then flaunt it.

(Source: Just Jared via Movieline)


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Comments

GQ: Who knew Michelle Williams had this body?

I sure didn't!! Hopefully "My week with Marilyn" will be just as fabutastic!

Posted by: PG13 at January 17, 2012 7:38 PM

I still can't get into her. She definitely comes across better in film than in print, because the dead in those eyes up there is like Kristen Stewart dead, or my daddy raped my stuffed unicorn and made me watch dead. Marilyn may have felt similarly, but it wasn't splashed on her face that way.

Posted by: Protoguy at January 17, 2012 7:49 PM

If you asked me who she was supposed to be, I don't think I would ever have guessed right.

Posted by: Matt at January 17, 2012 7:49 PM

I love her little belly...that she has one. Like us regular girls.

Posted by: Cindy at January 17, 2012 7:57 PM

I'm with you, ProtoGuy. She's like the zombie version of Carey Mulligan, only without the charm, bitchen voice, funky smile, and, uh, life force.

Posted by: klingonfree at January 17, 2012 8:20 PM

Her "performance" in that film is just a fine job at mimics. She doesn't act in that film, she doesn't play a character with emotions behind those eyes. It's just a nice imitation job. It's as bland as the rest of the film and doesn't deserve more than a pat on the back.

Posted by: Blackie at January 17, 2012 8:20 PM

She DOES look fairly purdy in these shots (harrah for photog technique, lighting,
editing and etc)... but last time I checked, she weighs something like 97#s. Not
exactly 'Marilyn M' / regular / bit of a belly. Imma jus sayin.

Posted by: Ms MoMo at January 17, 2012 8:37 PM

Hubba-hubba, and may I add Hubba.

Posted by: Junierizzle at January 17, 2012 9:02 PM

Williams should have won her Oscar for Wendy and Lucy the same way Maggie Gyllenhaal should have won her Oscar for Sherrybaby. Neither performance was nominated, so they both are going to be nominated for "close enough" work until they win. Caveat: Williams is strong in Blue Valentine; eclipsed by Baby Goose's career best performance, but strong nonetheless.

Posted by: Robert at January 17, 2012 9:18 PM

oh look, an naked actress on a cover magazine that looks normal and not skinny as hell

Posted by: sarah at January 17, 2012 9:36 PM

I thought she was great in My Week With Marilyn and far transcended mere mimicry. There was true soul therein.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at January 17, 2012 9:46 PM

I have subscribed to Esquire for over a decade now, and rarely buy/read GQ. This will certainly be one of those exceptional months. I'm sure they'll understand.

Posted by: J-Bobber at January 17, 2012 9:51 PM

I'm just not seeing it...granted, I'm a straight woman and therefore not the best judge, but really?

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at January 17, 2012 11:43 PM

Huh. I'm a straight woman, and I'm totally seeing it.

And I'm not even particularly a fan of Michelle Williams. (Haven't seen My Week With Marilyn.)

Posted by: MM at January 17, 2012 11:46 PM

I adore Michelle Williams & have thought for infinite years that she should play Marilyn BUT wow is that cover photoshopped (and didn't Pajiba just repost something about Adobé?)! Her whole cleavage looks like a flat diagram.

Posted by: mfg at January 17, 2012 11:55 PM

"the best actress of her generation"

Are you f*ing kidding me with this?!

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Posted by: wealthyconnect.com at January 18, 2012 1:07 AM

Erm ... Looks more than a bit scrawny for my tastes, and, yes, I agree with everyone else who mentions a certain 'deadness' to her expressions. I think she's done some solid work, but 'greatness' and 'Michelle Williams' have yet to be proven.

Posted by: E Lee at January 18, 2012 3:46 AM

Charisma is half the battle for a performer of any stripe and Ms. Williams is sorely lacking in that department. Is she talented? I'd say..serviceable. Pretty? Moderately. Therefore, I do not understand how she has gotten as far as she has.

Posted by: sunny at January 18, 2012 6:55 AM

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Posted by: Greedy at January 18, 2012 7:56 AM

I just don't like her. I couldn't even tell you why. It's not like my visceral hate for Andie McDowell (who might be a lovely woman, and I certainly have no reason for hating her, but she just inspires fury in me). It's like... I'm sure she's a perfectly fine actress, in the same way that ScarJo is good. She says her lines correctly, fills out the clothes, and appears to be completely dead inside.
These pictures are the best I've ever seen of her, but she still just makes me feel so tired.

Posted by: Leelee at January 18, 2012 9:03 AM

You are all fucking blind. I mean, God DAMN.

Posted by: jamiepants at January 18, 2012 9:57 AM

She looks gorgeous, but this feels like it's totally beneath her, to be honest. Being all "LOOK I HAVE BOOBS" on GQ is way more of, say, Aniston's gig or TV actresses, not this chick. She looks uncomfortable as hell.

Posted by: figgy at January 18, 2012 10:11 AM

While Michelle Williams looks far healthier than say Lindsay Lohan, she also doesn't look any more like Monroe than Lohan did either.

In no way shape or form do I see Marilyn Monroe or even Norma Jean Baker here. Putting on a bleach blond wig and prancing about in skimpy clothing does not make one look any more like Monroe then jamming chicken feathers up you ass, flapping your arms and clucking would make you a Rhode Island Red.

Monroe had some weight on her. Someone like Christina Hendricks has a closer physique to how Monroe was, but if you still wanted to use someone smaller, then you need to use some of the less revealing outfits she was known for and at least give the illusion of the hourglass. Wonderbra, padded underwear, flowing skirts that could just as easily hide knitting needle pins as easily as they could have thighs of thunder.....the key here is to present an illusion. She's not trying to have the Monroe style, she's supposed to actually be as Monroe. If you cannot be as the real thing than you should at least suggest to y imagination that you could be.

Physical attributes aside, there is also the expressive presentation. Monroe had a reputation of being an airhead and naive. Whether this was because of her natural personality, her drug use, neither or a mix of the two remains to be debated. But while she was a dipshit on the set and looked like a dear caught in the limelights, at no time do I really recall her looking dead expressionless either. Maybe her performance will show something more, but part of being able to nail portraying a real person oddly enough requires that you carry some of the perception of that person in other people's eyes- whether or not its factual. I would not no by any means rank Williams as the greatest actress of her generation, and based on what I've seen of he so far, I doubt at any time will I see her performance and suspend my belief and see her as anyone other than someone doing an impersonation.

Posted by: bleujayone at January 18, 2012 10:16 AM

Michelle Williams is absolutely gorgeous. That skin, those eyes, those lips. She has this beautiful softness to her appearance no matter what she weighs. She's angelic. I don't see dead eyes at all and especially not in My Week With Marylin where she lights up the screen. I think people should see it before they decide she's doing an impression and not a performance. God forbid you should actually have to watch a movie before you decimate it's leading performer.

Michelle Williams has emerged an enviable and down-to-earth talent among a generation of try-too-hards. She has an easy grace and seemingly effortless vulnerability on camera.

She has a great sense of what roles and what films will work for her and she seems like a genuine and sweet woman so I honestly have no idea how anyone could "hate" her.

Posted by: becks at January 18, 2012 10:29 AM

She is really gorgeous. My cheeky baby loves to play with her..

http://goo.gl/9XpnL

Posted by: spitoy at January 18, 2012 11:14 AM

Sorry, she's very pretty, but the awkward poses, the "nothing going on behind those eyes" expression, the non-expression period.

Seriously, that first pic, she looks like she's taking directions and not getting them. "Really? Pull on this ear? Ok, if you think that'll help."
The cover of GQ - is there an expression there? It's not like Mona Lisa's "I wonder what she's thinking", it's more like "Hellooo, anybody home?" If it were possible to erase all indications of thought or emotion from someone's face, she's done it.
That last picture. Please help me. Is it supposed to be sexy? Because she looks more like she can't figure out how she got into those alien accoutrements. Or like she wants to start smearing lipstick all over her face and shouting "Who's a little piggy?!" at her reflection.

And no, I don't see a lot of Photoshop up there. Her facial skin looks like someone murdered it with Lyndsey Lohan's makeup kit. And simply whitewashing your hair doesn't quite cut it.

Remember when people talked about Marilyn being pouty and voluptuous and sexy - there is not one iota of that up there and I don't even like Marilyn Monroe. She looks like she has no idea what to do in front of a camera. Google images of Marilyn. She doesn't have a lot of expressions, but none of them look like this.

Posted by: Protoguy at January 18, 2012 3:31 PM

Stop acting like you don't love the rooster, Dustin.

Posted by: Max at January 18, 2012 4:30 PM

love her little belly...that she has one. Like us regular girls.
Posted by: Cindy at January 17, 2012 7:57 PM

She doesn't have a belly, you crazy person.

Posted by: John G. at January 18, 2012 11:36 PM

How can we forget “I Wanna Be Loved By You… pu-pu“ or “"Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend"? It was Marilyn Monroe, much more than just pinup of her time. She was icon.
Michelle Williams, BRAVO !!! You make us to keep our silly dreams alive.

Posted by: Marilyn Monroe’s dreamer at January 21, 2012 8:16 AM

Haters gonna hate!!!

Posted by: Ecl becuo hu at January 25, 2012 7:23 PM