The career trajectory of Allison Williams is one that calls for closer analysis.
The actress became known for portraying Marnie Michaels, a generally insufferable New York millennial, on HBO’s Girls.
Following the success of that show, she went down a completely opposite path and has now starred in three horror films.
She first dipped her toe in the horror pool by playing Rose in the game-changing movie Get Out, followed by her starring role in the sapphic thriller The Perfection, and now unleashes new hell in M3GAN.
The fascinating part of it all is that she is picking roles that don’t fit into the traditional woman-in-horror tropes.
None of her characters are scream queens or final girls, they’re something completely different.
Williams’ natural-born look of pedigree is giving modern horror movies a brand-new kind of person to hate.
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