“I think really what you’re there to do is build a bonfire around the love that these two women shared and to let everybody else experience that warmth,” Michelle Williams told the audience at a THR Frontrunner s panel. And the intimate audience could definitely feel that warmth among co-creators and executive producers Kim Rosenstock and Nikki Boyer and star and executive producer Williams at a special brunchtime screening and panel conversation for FX ’s nine-time Emmy nominated series Dying for Sex at San Vicente Bungalows.
The panel explored the creative journey of adapting the Dying for Sex podcast for television, reflecting on themes of grief, intimacy and transformation. Boyer, creator of the original podcast, recounted the challenges of pitching the story: “I thi