Allison Williams Deserves All the Hype in the World for ‘M3GAN’

We all know M3GAN—the singing, dancing, J.Crew-dressed robot girl—carries the new horror movie M3GAN. Life-sized humans have been dressing up and dancing like her! That plasticky smirk has landed on billboards all over the world! Her name is the title of the movie! But there’s another leading lady we also need to talk about, when it comes to Blumhouse’s picture-perfect thriller: Allison Williams.

Williams, who became a household name thanks to her high-strung performance as Marnie on HBO’s Girls, has dipped in and out of the public eye over the last few years. After Girls wrapped in spring 2017, the actress traded in covers of Kanye West and bickering with Lena Dunham for a role in Jordan Peele’s splashy debut feature, Get Out, released that summer.

Produced under the same banner as M3GAN, the Oscar-winning psychological horror proved a handful of different things: Peele is a mastermind in the director’s chair, the Academy was finally warming up to 21st-century horror, and Williams is the creepiest millennial scream queen. In Get Out, she still embodied sleek, uptight Marnie Michaels, but now her emotional manipulation was being played for shrieks instead of laughs. The way she deconstructs her cereal—eating a dry bowl of Froot Loops, then sipping milk through a straw—will creep back into my mind every once in a while, as I prepare my normal breakfast.

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