Allison Williams attended the Nantucket Film Festival this past weekend and joined a fascinating panel alongside Nicole Holofcener and Michaela Watkins, moderated by Ophira Eisenberg and sponsored by J.Crew, called “Women Behind the Words.”Williams talked at length about the way she and actresses in general can be perceived by the public, have been written about by journalists, and have been trolled on social media — and whether anything has changed in the six years since “Girls” ended.“People kind of thought the four of us were in a documentary about girls in our 20s when we were actors acting in a show,” Williams said.
“Whereas I think some of the men in our show got a lot of credit, as they deserved, for their performances, for playing characters as actors, whereas it took people a couple years to be like, ‘Oh, she’s not Marnie.’ And I was like,…
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