Michelle Williams On Economic Inequality In Her New Movie — And Her Career
In After the Wedding, she plays the head of an orphanage who is clearly uncomfortable around wealth. In her own life, she's dealt with a controversy where she was paid much less than a male co-star.
by Sacha Pfeiffer
Aug 10, 2019
4 minutes
After the Wedding is a movie full of transformative secrets.
It's a gender-swapped remake of a 2006 Danish film, and when we first meet the main character — Isabel, played by Michelle Williams — she's living a modest, humble life running an orphanage in India. Then one day she's asked to go to New York City to clinch a deal for a life-changing donation to the orphanage. The money would come from a media mogul, Theresa, played by Julianne Moore.
That transaction lands Isabel in a world of wealth and power tied too closely to her past — when she was a
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