NEW YORK – Allison Williams has starred in horror movies like “Get Out” and “M3GAN,” soared across the stage in “Peter Pan Live!” and made us laugh (and cringe) in “Girls.” But she didn’t think anyone would want to see her in a romantic drama.
“Regretting You,” director Josh Boone helped changed her mind.
“I just didn't think of myself as a romantic lead," Williams tells USA TODAY in a sit-down interview. "I don’t know if I want to see myself get the guy or whatever. I don’t know if I would root for myself on screen. But I was like, if (director Josh Boone) thinks I can do this, then maybe there's something about my vibe that I can't detect that is actually going to work in this medium.”
Based on Colleen Hoover’s book, "Regretting You," now in theaters, stars Williams , Dave Franco, McKenna Grace and Mason Thames.
Williams, also a producer on the film, plays Morgan Grant, a young mom who finds out her husband and her sister were having an affair after they both die in a car accident. Her complicated grief deepens a rift with her teenage daughter Clara (Grace), whose college dreams and new beau (Thames) Morgan does not approve of. Complicating matters further is her late sister’s partner, Jonah (Franco), who has had feelings for Morgan since their school days.
