Michelle Williams’ ‘craziest’ sex scene on ‘Dying for Sex’ revealed: ‘I was so blown away by the bravery of the actors’
nypost.comMichelle Williams as Molly, a woman with terminal cancer who decides to go on sexual escapades at the end of her life. Jenny Slate co-stars as her best friend, Nikki.“When Liz first asked me to work on this, I was nervous about the gravity of the subject matter,” co-creator Kim Rosenstock exclusively told The Post, referring to her co-creator, Elizabeth Meriwether (“New Girl”).
The Long Island born writer, who also works on “Only Murders In the Building,” added, “But also, I was so excited and inspired by this idea that we might get to make a show about women in their 40s having sex, and talking about their bodies, and health and pleasure.
I was like, ‘There’s so much opportunity in here to tell this story… through this very unusual lens of the story of someone dying.’” “Dying for Sex” is based on a podcast of the same name from Nikky Boyer, which told a true story.
The real Molly Kochan passed away in 2019 at age 45. The premise of the show means there’s a lot of scenes where characters get busy. “I wrote a movie that had sex in it in 2011, but I hadn’t done that since then,” Meriwether told The Post, referring to “No Strings Attached” starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. “So it was totally new for me,” the “New Girl” creator continued. “And we were very conscious – if there’s sex in the show, it’s for a reason.
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