Allison Williams Addresses 'Girls' Criticism' & Reunion Possibility
Allison Williams is addressing criticism of Girls.
The 37-year-old M3GAN 2.0 actress spoke to The Guardian about the HBO series, which ended in 2017.
Allison said she felt as if there were “a gazillion think pieces about every episode that we did – and most thought we all took ourselves too seriously.”
“We were all pretty privileged people who were the leads of this HBO show that was definitely skewering our own, but we weren’t given credit for that, or for being in on it,” she went on to say.
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“The shame is that, when it is coupled with misogyny and fatphobia and everything, the valid criticism gets lost,” she added of the valid criticism of being set in New York, yet overwhelmingly white.
She noted especially mean criticism from sites like Gawker, which didn’t describe the lead characters by their names, but as the daughters of the famous parent each actor had.
“We were easy targets, I get it,” she added.
She also struggled for a time with being associated with her character, Marnie.
“I really desired to put distance between us, because I thought that was the kind of acting everybody respected – like, I’m wearing a prosthetic nose and I gained 40lbs, or whatever. And here [our characters] were, who looked basically like we looked and sounded like we sounded, but crucially said and did things that we would never do. It always felt weird that, since we didn’t transform ourselves in some way, people weren’t buying us playing characters,” she noted.
Still, she’d be down for a reunion.
“I would love it,” she said. “I know that Zosia [Mamet, who played Shoshanna] has been pushing for a spin-off, which I would voraciously consume and try to elbow my way into. I kind of want us all back together. It was so fun and it was the beginning of my career, so I didn’t have the perspective I have now on just how lucky we were, or to know how unusual a creative experience it was.”
She’s also set to star in a highly anticipated adaptation!