Minor spoilers for FX’s Dying for Intercourse are forward. If you wish to watch the present in full, you are able to do so with a Hulu subscription.
The title Dying for Intercourse says all of it. The sequence that simply premiered on the 2025 TV schedule follows a girl named Molly after she is identified with terminal most cancers and decides to go on a journey of sexual discovery. As you probably deduced, the comedy is a sexually express Hulu mission, and I requested Michelle Williams, who performs Molly, about filming the present’s intimate and express scenes. In response, she advised me why she was able to “leap after which look” into this intercourse optimistic sequence.
Throughout my interview with Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate (who performs Molly’s finest good friend and caretaker Nikki) about this new streaming present, I requested which intercourse scene was most intimidating to movie. In response, The Fabelmans actress didn’t title a selected second, however reasonably defined how she dove into the present and all these intimate scenes:
There have been so many. And I earlier than, after we signed onto the present, there have been one, possibly two, scripts written. So I actually had no thought what place, actually, I’d discover myself in. However, I wish to leap after which look, that is simply who I’ve come to seek out myself to be. And so I used to be so excited to have the ability to work along with my now twin, Jenny [Slate]… and with [co-creator] Kim [Rosenstock] and [co-creator Elizabeth Meriwether].
Together with being excited to work with these exceptional girls, Williams additionally advised me she was extremely moved by the actual Molly’s story. Dying for Intercourse was impressed by a podcast of the identical title by Molly Kochan (who Williams performs) and her finest good friend Nikki Boyer.
The actress and EP advised me she was “so drawn” to the supply materials, and knew she wanted to be concerned in its adaptation, saying:
I had religion within the journey of Molly and Nikki, and I had been so drawn to the podcast in ways in which I actually did not even perceive. However I used to be identical to, ‘I’m bewitched by this factor, and I’m going the place it takes me.’
Now, the variety of intercourse scenes on this present could possibly be seen as intimidating. From masturbating all day to going to a intercourse potluck to stepping into the main points of studying about dominating to spending an evening with a person who likes to decorate like a canine, Dying for Intercourse doesn’t draw back from something.
Williams acknowledged that in our interview, noting that intimate and express moments “would present up” on a regular basis:
It simply sort of saved coming, these scenes would present up. And I used to be like, ‘Effectively, that is what it’ll be.’ I imply, one after the opposite.
Nonetheless, because of the means the FX comedy approached these sequences, she was prepared and prepared to be a part of them.
Together with complimenting how Dying for Intercourse used an intimacy coordinator in an earlier interview, Williams praised how intercourse is depicted on this sequence, telling me:
However to be sincere, they had been all carried out with such love and affection for the companions that she encounters, and with none disgrace or judgment. And I believe that is actually on the coronary heart of the present, and it was actually on the coronary heart of the actual Molly’s journey that moved me a lot, is the entire and complete absence of judgment.
As somebody who has seen the present in full, I fully agree with Williams’ clarification. There’s a “complete absence of judgement” in Dying for Intercourse, and it celebrates every kind of enjoyment in addition to sexual discovery.
Molly is on the heart of that journey, which suggests the actress who performs her is in all of those scenes, and he or she performs them with care and coronary heart. It was shifting to listen to her converse so brazenly and lovingly a few matter that may be seen as taboo, and it highlighted simply how intercourse optimistic and considerate Dying for Intercourse is.