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Michelle Williams' 'Fabelmans'-esque origin story? It starts with PTA and Björk

Michelle Williams attends the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Night Gala at Palm Springs Convention Center on Jan. 5, 2023, in Palm Springs, California.

LOS ANGELES — Michelle Williams has been talking about artistic journeys — her own and the one at the heart of "The Fabelmans," the film that just earned her a fifth Oscar nomination — and she pulls out her phone to show me a photo of her 17-year-old daughter, Matilda, joyfully holding her little baby brother, the 3-month-old currently sleeping in Williams' room here at the Hotel Bel-Air.

Matilda is wearing a Bob Dylan T-shirt, which Williams bought and constantly wore half a lifetime ago when she was a teenager living in Wilmington, North Carolina, and shooting "Dawson's Creek." Williams has long wanted to take Matilda to Wilmington, but that's a road trip that hasn't happened yet. "I always thought, maybe I'll get a job, and it would take

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