Michelle Williams Shares Glinda Inspiration for 'Oz'

Michelle Williams and her daughter Matilda, 7, leave the children’s clothing store CrewCuts on Wednesday afternoon (March 6) in New York City.

Elsewhere in the Big Apple, the 32-year-old actress’ Oz the Great and Powerful co-star James Franco made an appearance on Good Morning America to promote the film, in theaters this Friday!

“Glinda can’t be omniscient because then she has no struggle,” Michelle recently told the L.A. Times about her character. “If she already knows everything about the situation, there’s nothing for her to discover.”

“Quadlings, Tinkers and Munchkins didn’t mean much to me; it wasn’t my language,” Michelle added about the groups of misfits her character benevolently rules over. “But when I thought of them as Native Americans trying to inhabit their land or about women getting the right to vote, it made a lot more sense.”

FYI: Michelle is carrying a Coach bag.

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