In Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful, Michelle Williams has clarified, she plays a younger version of Glinda the Good Witch, the character immortalized by Billie Burke in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. Seemingly relieved by the leeway that this age gap allowed, Williams told the Orlando Sentinel back in 2011, after being cast in the role, “So I don’t have to do a Billie Burke imitation. I’m playing a younger Glinda, so I’m not bound by Billie Burke’s performance. I don’t get to say...
