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You probably know her as Marnie Michaels from Girls, Rose Armitage from Get Out, or Gemma from M3GAN.
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In 2023, Allison — who is the daughter of journalists Brian Williams and Jane Stoddard Williams — publicly weighed in on the viral “nepo baby” discourse. She told Vulture, “To not acknowledge that me getting started as an actress versus someone with zero connections isn’t the same — it’s ludicrous. It doesn’t take anything away from the work that I’ve done. It just means that it’s not as fun to root for me.”
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And now, Allison has acknowledged her privilege once again during a chat with the New York Times.
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Speaking with the outlet amid the release of her new film Regretting You, Allison was asked if she understood why people “hated” her “so much” in the past. She replied, “Deeply. First, the theater kid energy is triggering for a lot of people. There’s a reason I don’t sing regularly. I get to do it once a decade without it becoming too annoying.”
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“The other thing is, I have so many different layers of privilege that it’s hard for me to put together the idea of a person it would be less fun to root for. I’m much more satisfying to root against. I really get it. I really, really get it,” she said.
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“I always have cared about what people think about me, I still do, but I can’t begrudge people their reactions. I feel like it’s changed though. Gen Z has a totally different read on Marnie. They have a much more charitable and warm feeling toward her,” she added.
For context, Allison opened up last year about how her onscreen Girls character was widely viewed as “annoying” and “cringeworthy” when the show aired between 2012 and 2017. “My theory is, what was coded as selfishness among millennials is now coded as self-care,” she said, referring to the way that Gen Z have embraced Marnie more favorably. “Just being aware of what you need and advocating for your needs and standing up for yourself, and so Gen Z, is like, ‘No, we get her. She makes sense to us.’”
Internet users have since praised Allison’s “refreshingly self-aware” comments. “Her honest self-assessment is making me like her even more! That’s all we want. Everyone loves a self-aware nepo baby- we can root for them even if we’re doing it from a very unfair and unequal world,” one person said. Another added, “Allison Williams, they could never make me hate you.”
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“Big fan of famous people acknowledging their layers of privilege,” someone wrote. “It’s bizarre that it’s taken the nepos this long to learn a proper response, but I love her awareness. And believe she is authentic,” one more user agreed.
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