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Shannon Murphy On Balancing Comedy & Tragedy In Michelle Williams And Jenny Slate Series ‘Dying For Sex’, The Director’s Most “Auteur” TV Gig Yet
Shannon Murphy wants to change the conversation around death, an idea that drew her to FX's Dying for Sex starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate.
The eight-episode series, which launches on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally on April 4, is based on the heartbreaking true story of Molly Kochan (Williams), a woman who gets a Stage IV cancer diagnosis and decides to leave her husband of 15 years to explore the full breadth and complexity of her sexual desires for the first time in her life. The series, which also stars Jay Duplass, Rob Delaney and Sissy Spacek, is written and co-created by Kim Rosenstock ( Only Murders in the Building) and Elizabeth Meriwether ( New Girl), who also serve as exec producers with Murphy. Interestingly, it’s not Murphy’s first foray into exploring death: Her debut feature Babyteeth, which earned her a BAFTA Best Director nomination in 2021, followed a teenage girl with terminal cancer who falls in love with a drug addict, something her parents struggle to navigate.
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