Your newest friend is back! After the success of the virus from M3GANhorror movies get sequels – and Allison Williams is set to return as his creator regrets.
M3GAN went viral months before its January 2023 release, in part due to a scene in the trailer showing a robot doll pausing her killing spree for a dance break. One popular meme suggests M3GAN is a “yassified” version of Annabelle, the haunted doll from Conjuring franchise.
While the film became a joke on social media, the film quickly became a hit at the box office, earning over $100 million in its first month of release and finishing its opening weekend in second place. Avatar: The Way of Water.
The film follows Gemma (Williams), a robotics expert who is the guardian of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after Cady’s parents die in a car accident. Career-focused Gemma has trouble connecting with Cady until she introduces him to her latest creation: the Model 3 Generative Android, or M3GAN.
Cady and M3GAN immediately hit it off, but Gemma soon realizes that her niece is too close to the robot girl for comfort, and the authorities begin to notice that there are many bodies. When the movie ends, M3GAN – spoiler alert – seems to be dead, but the final shot shows that his memory has been captured through the camera in front of Gemma’s smart.
Although M3GAN is responsible for many deaths, Williams jokes that the robot has some redeeming qualities. “He is very loyal. Yes,” said the Girls alum BuzzFeed in January 2023. “He’s a good diagnostician and vital sign analyst. He’s alert, and he’s a good player.”
On a more serious note, the Exit The actress explained that the birth of her own son, Arlo, made portraying Gemma semi-neglect more difficult. Yale University alum welcomes first child with fiancé Alexander Dreymon at the end of 2021.
“Some of those scenes, like when [Gemma is] quasi-manipulating type [Cady] to the presentation, even though he was injured, it was one of the hardest scenes for me to film because it felt wrong. I feel terrible,” Williams said an insider in January 2023. “But Gemma has a different incentive structure than I do. So it’s just one of those moments that you have to navigate.
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