While speaking to PEOPLE, Michelle Williams and Rob Delaney opened up about how they supported each other through one particularly difficult scene to film on the hilarious yet heartbreaking FX limited series 'Dying for Sex'.

Delaney opens up about making the limited series starring Michelle Williams as a woman diagnosed with terminal cancer

Williams tells PEOPLE, "They're really real"Coming together on screen for the first time, Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate make for a formidable duo in the FX limited series Dying for Sex. Despite never having worked together — although the two did appear in Venom,

Along with being excited to work with these remarkable women, Williams also told me she was incredibly moved by the real Molly’s story. Dying for Sex was inspired by a podcast of the same name by Molly Kochan (who Williams plays) and her best friend Nikki Boyer.

Film critic Peter Travers reviews "Dying for Sex," a new FX on Hulu series from co-creators Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock.

In this new series, based on a true story, Michelle Williams plays a terminally ill woman who wants to devote her remaining days to sexual exploration.

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Recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, Molly (Michelle Williams) resolves not to die without having an orgasm in Hulu's new series, 'Dying for Sex.'

Dying for Sex' follows a woman reclaiming her sexuality while battling cancer Michelle Williams is expressing her gratitude to the intimacy coordinator on the set of her new FX and Hulu show. Speaking at the New York City premiere of Dying for Sex,