Michelle Williams in British Vogue's April issue

Please note, the photoshoot and interview were completed 12 days before the accidental death of Heath.

Click below for the photo and interview highlights.

On her breakup with Heath:

Going through a breakup is a very humanizing experience. It just strips you to your core. You're nothing but feeling, nothing but emotion. There's no difference between my break-up and anyone else's, so to have to pretend that you're happy and sunny...

I really only look back on it with love, because, Oh God, because of my daughter. I can't regret a single second of it because of this hell-raising cherub sleeping in the room next to me. [laughs] I hate to sound Pollyanna-ish about it, but that part is true. She's bigger than any heartbreak could ever be.

On her current focuses:

I've only got room for two things -- my work and Matilda -- and everything else has to take third or eighth position. Matilda comes to visit me everyday on-set, and she and I have an on-going conversation about what it means that I work.

On her busy work schedule:

I do this movie ['Mammoth'] in Sweden, then one in LA ['Blue Valentine,' which has been postponed since Heath's passing] and then I go and do the Scorsese film ['Shutter Island,' in Boston], so I'm looking forward to all that work and getting it out of my system, and returning to Brooklyn full-time. It's been such a hard year in so many other ways, I'm just really lucky that this area in my life is thriving. It all seems such a long way from 'Dawson's Creek.' It's the career of my dreams.

On fashion:

[I like doing photoshoots too.] My life is so plain in a way, and babycentric, I dress in that harried, hurried mom style. I wanted to look girlish, to play-act and tap dance. [Fashion] wasn't something I thought about for a long time. Then I thought about it too much. It's complicated, because if you can put the ugliness of vanity aside, dressing up is self-expression in its purest form.

Describing her favorite on-screen performances:

I'm pretty self-critical, so it's hard for me to see beyond whatever emotional state or personal problems I was having at the time. It's hard for me to watch myself. In the Todd Haynes movie ['I'm Not There'] I got to play a really glamorous, controlling, manipulative girl. I was excited that he saw me in that way. I don't know, I can't ... I'm not in a place to praise myself.

On why she prefers 'healing' activities as pastimes:

[I do] bookbinding, calligraphy, embroidery. I want to do something painstaking and time consuming. Something logical with a certain outcome to it.

Source: British Vogue, April issue. Scans courtesy miss_nyc at The Fashion Spot.

Click here for another in-depth interview with Michelle, from Wonderland.

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