The actress said in an interview with Patricia Clarkson for Variety that the experience kept her away from TV for a long time.
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Williams who stars in FX mini-series Fosse/Verdon, added, “When this came around, people had been saying for a long time, ‘Television is different now.’ And I could see that that was true and that it was something that I should open myself up to.”
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