‘Girls’ star Allison Williams ‘devastated’ Marnie career arc was cut

Girls star Allison Williams was all in on one Girls storyline in particular, but it ended up being scrapped.

“Sometimes, in the process of writing a season of a show, the plans change,” she said Wednesday on the Las Culturistas podcast hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. “Marnie was a SoulCycle instructor for a season and that ended up getting cut out of the show.”

Williams’ Marnie was one of four friends — along with Lena Dunham’s character Hannah, Jemima Kirke’s Jessa, and Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna — making their way in the city in the ups and downs of their 20s on the HBO comedy. The Emmy-winning series aired for six seasons, from 2012 to 2017.

“Listen, I was devastated,” Williams said of the adventure that never happened. “I trained, I went to, like, double classes at SoulCycle, the SoulCycle in New York City.”

Williams also trained “very, very hard” for an action-heavy scene in her new movie, M3GAN 2.0, writer-director Gerard Johnstone told Entertainment Weekly.

She trained with not SoulCycle, but celebrity personal trainer Jason Walsh, whom she described as someone who “trains people for Avengers movies.”

“I loved the action part of my job in this movie,” Williams said. “One of the things I loved about the movie was that it was very meta. Gemma’s like, I can’t believe I’m in an action movie, and also I can’t believe I’m in one. So we’re kind of having the same experience.”

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While her fitness experience is impressive, Williams insisted earlier this week that she’s not so tough when it comes to watching scary movies. It was surprising coming from the star not only of both M3GAN movies, but also Get Out.

So she finds “irony” in being referred to as a scream queen.

“I am a capital W, bona fide wimp,” Williams said recently on NPR’s The Sam Sanders Show. “I can only watch horror movies on planes. That’s the only time I can watch them.”

Listen to Williams’ full conversation on Las Culturistas above.