In recent interviews, filmmaker Bradley Rust Gray disclosed that his latest film was inspired by a true story.

Michelle Williams, the mother of Heath Ledger’s sole child, went through a personal tragedy that was adapted for the big screen and got positive reviews from critics.

The performer, on the other hand, turned down a promising role because she couldn’t go through the ordeal again.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Williams was Bradley’s co-writer when he first began penning the script.

The film is about a girl who has lost a loved one and wants to start living and loving again.

The filmmaker assumed that the actress would play the depressed widow. Michelle, on the other hand, was never able to perform this role.

When we were getting ready to shoot the film, she realized that everything was still too close for her and respectfully declined, he stated.

Ledger and Williams separated in 2007, just a few months before we lost the great actor in January 2008.

Michelle was dealt a tremendous blow by the death of a loved one, something she had previously been able to endure.

Thomas Cale, a theatrical director, married Michelle in 2020.

Our situation seemed to be improving. As a result of Heath’s death, my worldview, and daily interactions have shifted.

As a mother, it altered me. It has altered the type of work that I truly aspire to accomplish and has evolved into a prism through which I view the world. Everything is transient, the actress remarked in an interview.