I’m trying to decide who Allison Williams looks like on this Glamour cover. I mean, she’s a pretty girl, but her features can go in wildly different directions depending on the styling, and she’s giving me a weird un-Allison vibe on the cover. Oh, it just came to me: she looks like Eva Amurri, Susan Sarandon’s daughter. Right? Anyway, Allison covers the February issue of Glamour to promote the new season of Girls (Season 4). Lena Dunham got the cover of Elle, so Allison got the cover of Glamour. And that’s the pecking order, I would guess. You can see the full Glamour slideshow here, and here are some interview highlights:
Her future goals: “I have vague EGOT goals. Who doesn’t? I have zero of those so far, so I have a lot of work to do.”
When she’ll start a family: “I have a lot of questions: How do I get to a place in my career where I can go be a mom for a little while, and then come back and be a mom and an actress at the same time?…Every time I find a woman in film, an actress who has kids, I, like a sociopath, corner her and ask, ‘How did it work?’ Everyone says, ‘Don’t think so much.’ Jemima [Kirke], from Girls, is always saying, ‘Just get pregnant! Just have a baby.’ And I’m like, ‘You are so much cooler than I am.’ I love what I do, but I have no doubt that when I start my family, that’s life. This is my job, but that’s life.”
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On public scrutiny: “Being analyzed about my weight drives me crazy. It’s easier to say, ‘Oh, she must be anorexic and depriving herself,’ than it is to say, ‘She might have a fast metabolism.’ I deprive myself nothing. But that’s an annoying thing to say, right?”
Doing Peter Pan Live!: “The day of the performance, I was focused, chill, then emotional. My makeup artist had to redo all my makeup because I cried so much before the show started. Then, the minute I flew out the window in the end, I burst into tears again. To tell a cast that opening night is also closing night is just crazy.”
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She hasn’t gotten a part in a movie yet, but she’d like to: “The number of scripts that take my breath away are few and far between. There are some that are gorgeous, but I want to play all the male roles in them. I always ask, and I’m always told no.”
[From Glamour]
Ha. Can you imagine? An actress playing a supporting part in a critical darling TV show gets a film script that she deigns worthy enough of her efforts, but only if she gets to play the male part? Well, kudos to her for thinking outside the box, I guess. But I think that’s probably the even bigger reason why she hasn’t been in a movie yet. As for her EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) dreams, I kind of like her for admitting it. I think most actors believe that they’re going to EGOT but they don’t want to say it because they’re not supposed to care that much about the awards, right?
Photos courtesy of Steven Pan/Glamour.
