Get Outwas destined forOscarglory — andAllison Williamsknew it from the get-go.
Speaking withEntertainment Weeklysurrounding her new filmM3GAN, the actress recalled telling her publicist before she left to film the 2017Jordan Peelethriller that she believedGet Out"would be nominated for Oscars."
“She was like, ‘This girl is delusional. Who says that? What kind of pompous weirdo goes to film a movie and is like, “This film I have picked will be nominated for Oscars”?’ Then,much to her shock, I happened to be right,” said Williams, 34.
The formerGirlsstar said her “memories” of making the psychological horror film — which starredDaniel Kaluuyaand went on to benominated for four Academy Awardsincluding Best Picture,winning Best Original Screenplay for Peele, 43 — “are less about the shooting moments than it is about the afternoons and weekends we spent.”
“Everyone would kind of descend on this house that I rented and we would all hang out and talk. I have such happy memories of that experience,” she toldEW. “It was so full-on, and exhausting, and overwhelming, and rewarding. It was just great. I don’t have a bad word to say about it.”
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Get Out, Peele’s big-screen directorial debut, follows Chris Washington (Kaluuya, 33), a young Black man who travels with his White girlfriend Rose Armitage (Williams) to meet her parents and spend a weekend at their remote, suburban home, where Chris slowly discovers something isn’t quite right about the goings-on in the neighborhood.
It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Kaluuya) and Best Original Screenplay at the 2018 Oscars, and would go on to pave the way for Peele to release the popular follow-up thrillersUs(2019) andNope(2022), which he also wrote and directed.
In an interview with the Associated Press last summer, Peele admitted of thepossibility of doing a sequel toGet Out, “I do get asked that a lot.”
“Never say never,” he continued. “There’s certainlya lot to talk about left. We’ll see.”
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As for Williams, her film career has been chock full of thrills, starting withGet Outand, most recently, the sci-fi horror flickM3GAN.
M3GANis in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
