Tom Hardy Is the “Damsel in Distress” in Venom, and Michelle Williams Wanted It That Way
In many ways, Venom is set to buck the norm when it comes to superhero movies.
Sure, it may have the same basic structure - hero develops insane powers, villain makes a lot of trouble, hero saves the day - but there's so much more to the vicious antihero than meets the eye.
This departure can largely be attributed to the interesting cast.
Sure, Tom Hardy can pull off a slightly campy man-eating alien, but we also have Riz Ahmed as a supervillian and Jenny Slate as a morally questionable scientist.
And then there's Michelle Williams, who plays the brazen, bold Anne Weying aka Eddie Brock's love interest.It's a one-two punch, namely because Williams has never acted in a blockbuster action, let alone a superhero, movie of this kind of scale before.
What's more, Anne isn't your typical supporting woman, either; she saves Eddie Brock multiple times and
