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” which argued that the show’s female cast didn’t deserve the intense scrutiny and often sexist vitriol directed its way), Williams hasn’t quite escaped Marnie’s shadow. “I think people see me as, still, a lot of Marnie. The archetype is probably ‘perfectionist,’ ‘preppy,’ ” she says as we dig into petite bowls of “fancy bow-tie pasta.” Hers is gluten free, something she apologizes for multiple times, perhaps realizing that dietary intolerance plays into the ramrod vibes we’re discussing.
“It’s horrifying to me. How could you play Marnie for all those years and not be in on the joke?” Williams says. “Just straight-faced singing that Kanye song without knowing that there was anything wrong with it? Listen, if people think that’s who I am — fascinating. What the younger version of me would’ve felt at that suggestion is panic that I can’t tell all of them who I am.
To her credit, and unlike many of her privileged peers, Williams is open to discussing what it means to be a “nepo baby” with a refreshing lack of defensiveness. Being the daughter ofA Prairie Home Companion or Tina Fey’s assistant’s assistant. “All that people are looking for is an acknowledgement that it’s not a level playing field. It’s just unfair. Period, end of the story, and no one’s really working that hard to make it fair. To not acknowledge that me getting started as an actress versus someone with zero connections isn’t the same — it’s ludicrous. It doesn’t take anything away from the work that I’ve done. It just means that it’s not as fun to root for me.
It also means that there a bizarre number of interviews with Williams and a variety of middle-aged white men likely in her father’s Rolodex in which she is asked what her father thought of her onscreen sex scenes or to what degree he watched his daughter get plowed on the regular on HBO. It’s an extremely 2015 question that she answered cheerfully at the time but now concedes “did not disturb me enough.” Williams pauses mid-pasta and looks at the doll next to me.
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