Allison Williams

Allison Williams discusses what it was like working with the 'M3GAN' doll and serving as an executive producer alongside James Wan.

I loved it all, and I'm loving the experience of promoting it and delivering M3GAN to the world and the marketing, and I'm not in charge of any of it. So, from the script to even the edit of the movie, to the way it's promoted and all of it, I like to be involved in all of it. I'm currently shooting something where I'm not producing it, and it's so hard to not be wanting to know everything that's going on. It's going to be hard to go back. I found that it deepened my experience as an actor because it allowed my investment to be as deep as I always want it to be. The great joy is being able to work with people who are and learn from all of the experts and the geniuses who come up with these trailers and who come up with the marketing campaigns. I got to be on the email distributions of, "We're trying to clear these toys for Gemma's shelf, and we can't get any toys from this company. And so I'd be Gemma for 10 hours, and then we'd break for lunch, and I'd be the executive producer, and we'd talk about the rest of the day and the schedule going forward and stuff, and how we're going to achieve all of this stuff, or such-and-such actor can't come in anymore. She seems so real that even when she's not talking or doing anything, it's so easy to just project that onto her, to imagine that she's just going to strike up a conversation with you. I have most of my marbles still. So between "cut" and the next "action," either while we were doing a scene together or even just during a break when she was not working, [was] very eerie just because I think she's so alive to me. When her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, she is left to care for her young niece, Cady, and is ill-equipped to do so.

After her breakthrough role on “Girls,” Allison Williams transitioned to millennial scream queen territory. In “M3GAN,” the actress earns that title over ...

[a mastermind in the director’s chair](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/jordan-peeles-nope-will-blow-you-away), the Academy was [finally warming up to 21st-century horror](https://www.thedailybeast.com/get-out-how-the-oscars-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-horror), and Williams is the creepiest millennial scream queen. Or give us more of her duking it out with a tiny robot living in every system of her house. [Girls](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/girls-at-10-in-defense-of-lena-dunhams-creative-genius), has dipped in and out of the public eye over the last few years. If she keeps working in horror films, all the better—be them campy like M3GAN or thought-provoking like Get Out. As the daughter of NBC news anchor Brian Williams, she’s told interviewers that “there’s no conversation about my career without talking about the ways in which I have been fortunate.” [M3GAN](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/m3gan-trailers-robot-is-a-queer-icon-like-the-babadook-and-ma)—the singing, dancing, J.Crew-dressed robot girl—carries the new horror movie [M3GAN](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/m3gan-review-this-dancing-doll-horror-movie-is-unlike-anything-ever-created). She stars as Gemma, the aunt of orphaned Cady (Violet McGraw) and inventor at a toy company. In the wake of New York Magazine’s polarizing Instead of responding, she chuckles and continues the demonstration. She loves robots in particular—a menacing fixation to have in the case of this movie, where an animatronic doll begins to take over the world. In Get Out, she still embodied sleek, uptight Marnie Michaels, but now her emotional manipulation was being played for shrieks instead of laughs. Life-sized humans have been [dressing up and dancing like her](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/m3gans-dance-to-taylor-swift-film-red-carpet-1235183659/)!

Allison Williams gushed over her and fiancé Alexander Dreymon's baby boy Arlo, teasing, "He is adorable, I'm very proud."

"I had some friends who were like, 'Most of the things stayed the same, a couple of things about my routine shifted,'" she recalled. The couple even kept Arlo's birth private for several months before they were spotted on a family vacation together in April 2022. [Savannah Guthrie](https://www.eonline.com/news/savannah_guthrie) about her son on the Jan. 5 broadcast of the [Today Show](https://www.today.com/video/allison-williams-talks-m3gan-motherhood-159327301582). It's all I think about." "I get weird and shy when I talk about it because it's so new.

Allison Williams isn't the person you think she is, or the one fans of a certain cult TV show still want her to be. She's a mother, a daughter, and the star ...

Davis when she opines that “the vibe shift has happened” and that she is “committed to being left behind.” She has noticed the return of Y2K fashions, a resurgence she is experiencing with visceral terror. Williams, for her part, acknowledges that her “status as a mom” changed while she was working on M3GAN, but she made no announcement. Parenthood has made her more sensitive to the real and genuine wonder of the universe. In Fellow Travelers she nabbed the part of the daughter of a powerful U.S. “I became a mom, and that made it all much more interesting, because that’s Gemma’s whole arc,” she says. From a performance standpoint, people see that I’m in something and, going into it, it’s like, ‘I don’t know how this is going to go.’ ” She flashes a disarming smile: “That sense of openness is so fun.” “You have to be able to redirect your dreams and your goals in a direction that isn’t the initial one.” When Gemma’s sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car crash, her niece moves in, and Gemma—having no clue how to raise a child—brings M3GAN home to fill in the gaps. The women were assumed to be in a docuseries, “rolling out of bed with a camera crew there,” as Williams puts it. Here is some of what Williams did instead: After Girls and Get Out, Richard Shepard—who directed several episodes of Girls—tapped her for his Netflix thriller The Perfection, in which she gave dimension and nuance to a woman with a terrible secret. I had heard that the role was hers within a week and a half of her audition. It’s no great revelation to discover that the internet is a cesspool, but it is rare for someone in Williams’s position to do what she did next.

Here's everything to know about Allison Williams' fiancé Alexander Dreymon, whom the actress shares a son with.

We knew that his makeup test was coming up, which is when our makeup designer makes him up for the first time and sends pictures to all the producers to approve." I just jumped on a horse and went." I think that's the most difficult time." "I think things had to happen the way they happened. "I feel like I have a lot of different homes in my life. A lot of different places in the world I feel like, when I go back to them, all my memories are here, my friends are here. [announced that he and Williams are engaged](https://people.com/movies/allison-williams-engaged-alexander-dreymon/). So it was just a matter of finding the right time." He added: "It's not easy to find the right moment to do it simply because prepping a directing venture like that takes a few months and then there's a few months of post. So I have the advantage of being able to go to places and kind of experience it as a local. "I'm going to first and foremost say it, Alexander Dreymon is the most sensational actor I think I've ever watched in my life," she said. The premiere also marked the couple's [red carpet debut](https://people.com/movies/allison-williams-and-alexander-dreymon-step-out-for-first-red-carpet-at-m3gan-premiere/).

The nepo baby discourse, brought on by TikTok sleuths discovering indie singers' parents names were blue on Wikipedia, New York Magazine's tongue-in-cheek ...

What the younger version of me would’ve felt at that suggestion is panic that I can’t tell all of them who I am. Period, end of the story, and no one’s really working that hard to make it fair. Best known for exemplifying entitled millennial cringe as Marnie on HBO’s Girls, Williams is also the daughter of former NBC anchor Brian Williams, a fact that contributed to the lack of separation between herself and her annoying character in the public’s perception when the show was airing from 2012-2017.

Allison Williams talks about her role in the new film M3GAN, what she thinks of the horror genre, a possible Girls reunion, and more.

Not just in a scary way, but just as a symbol of something, and she becomes a shorthand for something," Williams explains. "That's the dream, to be able to just drop into one of those conversations and then give it a face like M3GAN," Williams says. The last season of "Girls" also aired six years ago this spring, "which is so hard to wrap my head around," Williams says. "I feel so lucky to have been part of that experience," Williams reflects, adding that she still sees concepts from the movie, like the Sunken Place, mentioned all the time. "When the trailer came out and people responded to it the way they did, we were just so excited, because it seemed like people just understood who she was so quickly. "I'm always attracted to movies that engage with conversations that are happening maybe a little bit peripherally and then bring it to the centre, wrapped up in a package of something that's going to be entertaining to watch," Williams says. "And I think I just thought the whole thing and the idea of working with James Wan and his horror masterpieces and his whole brand in this thriller horror world, I just thought . "The pièce de résistance I think was the idea of playing Gemma, this really smart, career-focussed, just brilliant roboticist," she says. "I think that tonally is the thing that makes her the most interesting and is why people have latched onto her as a little phenom." She also talked to director Gerard Johnstone, and "he had this really specific vision for the movie and such a unique tone in his first original movie," Williams says. When the script for "M3GAN" came around years later, "I heard from Jason Blum that there was something that he wanted me to read and do with them, which already I was inclined to just say yes without even looking because I had such an amazing experience on 'Get Out,'" she explains. ](https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/m3gan-48975915) Williams tells POPSUGAR that the AI doll is "complicated and challenging, but really creepy and uncanny and effective also."

The “M3gan” star, and daughter of journalist Brian Williams, gave a refreshingly self-aware take on the privileges she's been afforded thanks to nepotism.

Strong in our belief in our right to exist.” “Period, end of the story, and no one’s really working that hard to make it fair. The “Girls” star then launched into a response highlighting why so many of her peers struggle with responding to the same topic. Dedicated to our craft. It doesn’t take anything away from the work that I’ve done. The topic hit its boiling point in late December when New York Magazine declared 2022 “

During a Thursday appearance on the Today show ahead of the premiere her new film M3GAN, the 34-year-old actress discussed her "adorable" baby son Arlo, whom ...

[welcomed a baby boy named Arlo](https://people.com/parents/allison-williams-and-alexander-dreymon-welcome-baby-boy-exclusive/) the previous winter. "But they're over the moon." The trio was recently spotted on vacation with their family, including her father, newsman [Brian Williams](https://people.com/tag/brian-williams/), at a private resort in Abaco in the Bahamas. "Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard on what will likely be a new cult hit." By next year, I have a feeling we'll have to really show up." "I really enjoyed having another year of not having to bring it. They also stepped out together for a special screening of the film in New York City on Wednesday. "I had some friends who were like, 'Most of the things stayed the same, a couple of things about my routine shifted.' And as it was happening, I was like, 'Everything is unrecognizable to me now. "It's just the most unbelievable adventure. I feel lucky every day." "I get, like, weird and shy when I talk about it, because it's so new. "I'm very proud," Williams said.

Allison Williams, accompanied by her fiancé, wore a metallic dress and Fred Leighton jewelry to an NYC screening of her new horror film 'M3GAN.'

Williams was accompanied to the screening by her fiancé Alexander Dreymon. For hair, she worked with hairstylist Jacob Rozenberg, who parted her hair to one side and gave it an elegant wavy style. The movie is being released Friday.

Allison Williams spoke with Insider about all things "M3gan" and how she's ready to continue taking executive-producer credits on future projects.

Your view on literally — your view on a trash can changes and you're like, "I wonder how many diapers are in this trash can." I feel like I've had so much fun going from one genre to the next, from one medium to the other. [Laughs.] But it's really wild that when I first read it, I was not a mom. Then as it was starting to shape up in a way that we were all super proud of, the challenge is, let's introduce her to the world. I thought he was going to do a great job of moving in and out of these different tones. She's a legend, and she's the moment." From the moment that I read the script to now? How do we do it in a way that they get her? I was basically ready to say yes, regardless of what it was, and then it just got sweeter and sweeter from there. I mean, Chucky is a name that I think most people recognize worldwide, so that would be a big deal. "I'm sure people are gonna try, but I will fight them for it because it's so nice to be as invested as you want to be in a project like this," Williams added. We are now in combined royalty territory of this marriage between these horror corners of the world."