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Michelle Williams Talks ‘Dying for Sex,’ What Molly Would’ve Said to Her Mother and Shooting “Messed Up” Final Hospice Scene

The actress who stars in the spicy series, which is based on a true story, discusses her character's journey with sexual discovery and forgiveness: “I want to disconnect pleasure and shame.”

Her diagnosis sparks her to leave her husband of over a decade, Steve (Jay Duplass), and embark on a journey to explore her sexual desires and kinks with herself and several random men she meets on dating apps, in addition to “Neighbor Guy” played by Rob Delaney. While Dying for Sex is filled with raunchy — and hilarious — scenes of Williams venturing into BDSM and trying her partner’s fetishes, all in hopes of achieving her goal (to experience an orgasm), her plight also highlights her confronting the trauma she endured at an early age, which is where her issues with sexual intimacy came from. Perhaps I heard a tiny little alarm bell twinkling in the back of my brain, saying, “Oh, that might be embarrassing, or somebody might be upset with you, or what will so-and-so think?” But then my next thought was, “Fantastic!

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