She's just earned her fourth Oscar nomination thanks to her blistering supporting turn in Manchester By The Sea, and Michelle Williams is now looking towards a future job. She's in negotiations to join Jonah Hill's directorial debut, Mid-90s.
Hill wrote the coming-of-age tale and has won the chance to direct it for producer Scott Rudin and production company A24. As the title might suggest, the film sees a boy named Stevie learning life lessons in Los Angeles in the 1990s, spending time with his skateboarding friends and navigating the tricky waters of drinking, drugs, sex and peer pressure on the edge of his teenage years.
Assuming she closes a deal, Williams will be the main character's mother, raising her son alone in the unforgiving city. Hill is scheduled to kick off shooting in June, but before that, Williams will star in a Janis Joplin biopic.
And in terms of her next on-screen work, she'll be seen in Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck and has been shooting The Greatest Showman opposite Hugh Jackman, which is due for release on 5 January next year.