Allison Williams Knows Why Some People Have 'Hated' Her Over the Years: 'I Have So Many Different Layers of Privilege'
- - Allison Williams Knows Why Some People Have 'Hated' Her Over the Years: 'I Have So Many Different Layers of Privilege'
Tommy McArdleOctober 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Allison Williams spoke to why she believes audiences have shared hatred for her over the years
"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," she said
Williams' new movie Regretting You is in theaters now
Allison Williams is well aware that audiences have not always been on her side.
When Williams, 37, spoke with The New York Times recently to promote her new movie Regretting You, the actress said she "deeply" understands the "hate" directed at her in what the outlet described as "sometimes vitriolic" comments on old interviews.
For the Girls alum, the answer is two-fold. "First, the theater kid energy is triggering for a lot of people. There’s a reason I don’t sing regularly," Williams said. "I get to do it once a decade without it becoming too annoying."
"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," she added. I really get it. I really, really get it."
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Christopher Abbott and Allison Williams in Girls
Williams broke out on the HBO sitcom Girls as as one of its lead character Marnie, a self-centered and narcissistic 20-something who infamously sings Kanye West's 2007 hit "Stronger" in one of the show's most (purposefully) cringe-worthy moments. The actress, whose parents are former NBC News anchor Brian Williams and broadcast news producer Jane Stoddard-Williams, also played into that love-to-hate-her persona when she portrayed one of the villains in Jordan Peele's 2017 mega-horror-hit Get Out."I always have cared about what people think about me, I still do, but I can’t begrudge people their reactions," she told the Times. "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."
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Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams in Get Out
Williams costars with Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco and Mason Thames in Regretting You, an adaptation of author Colleen Hoover's 2019 novel of the same name. The movie follows Williams' character Morgan, her daughter Clara (Grace, 19) and Clara's uncle Jonah (Franco, 40) as they struggle to move forward following a car accident that kills Clara's father and Morgan's sister.
"It felt nostalgic to me, like the kind of movie that used to just fill the shelves of Blockbuster," Williams told the outlet of why she took on the movie. "Clearly I was meant to first learn a lot of the lessons I learned from doing horror, dislodging this Marnie thing from me, which was hard."
Regretting You is in theaters now.
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