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"Michelle Williams has said that a &amp;quot;conspiracy&amp;quot; brought her to work on Kelly Reichardt&amp;#039;s low-budget drama Wendy And Lucy. Speaking to Australia&amp;#039;s Sunday Telegraph, Williams revealed that mutual friends she shares with Reichardt - among them director Todd Haynes and Sonic Youth&amp;#039;s Kim Gordon - insisted the pair work together. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t know Kelly before we went to make the film, but there were all these friends trying to get me to do the movie,&amp;quot; Williams explained. &amp;quot;The casting director lives a few blocks from me in Brooklyn. We go to the same coffee shop and she would just sort of poke me every now and then and say, &amp;#039;I really think you should see [Kelly&amp;#039;s] movie, Old Joy... And Kim Gordon... was always saying, &amp;#039;You and Kelly would really get along, she&amp;#039;s really cool&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;And then the script arrived. It was first sent to me in short story form, with a little note from Todd Haynes saying, &amp;#039;Take a look. She&amp;#039;s a dear friend. You guys should work together.&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Reichardt praised her leading lady, adding: &amp;quot;Michelle has this amazing stillness. There&amp;#039;s stuff going on inside. You can see it in her eyes.&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Wendy And Lucy, which centres on a woman driving to Alaska who breaks down in Oregon with only her dog for company, is released in cinemas this Friday. &amp;gt; Click here for our review of Wendy And Lucy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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