Allison Williams On M3GAN’s Potential Sequel, Unrated Cut

M3GAN is the first box office hit of 2023, and star Allison Williams recently discussed the film’s success and a potential sequel. The film has already grossed $59.7 million domestically and $90.7 million worldwide, and in an interview with Variety Williams talked about the reported unrated version of the film, her hopes for the sequel and more. You can check out the highlights below:

On the film’s success: “I feel so gratified and excited and just really grateful. I understand that going to the movies is expensive and time-consuming, and we still are living in a pandemic. I get all the barriers of entry. So the fact that people are going out and picking our movie just thrills me. Everything is at our fingertips in our homes now. It makes it even more enticing to just say, ‘Screw it. I don’t want to leave the house. We’re just gonna watch something where I get to pee when I want to!” But this really is something that gets better with the more people that you’re watching it with, so to know that people are going to see it just thrills me.”

On the expected sequel: “While you’re making it, you can’t help but wonder, ‘If we got to make more, what would they be?’ So much of what we do is in service of the people who watch it. So I think the idea of people wanting more and being able to deliver is so wonderful.

“I just feel so grateful that it all has gone the way that it has, from the trailer coming out and people really embracing her, people going out and supporting the movie and seeing it and going back with their friends. The fact that they want more is just so great. It’s gonna be really fun if we get to work on it, to figure out how we can zig and zag that around the expectations of what it would be and try to keep things surprising while also delivering on the reasons that people want more in the first place.”

On the unrated version of the film: “Unrated! That makes it sound like it’s X-rated! We made the decision to move from R to PG-13 after we did a test screening of the PG-13 version that people seemed to enjoy just as much. So I think eventually, that R version may be available for people to see — I have no idea where or what the timeline would be. But it’s a really interesting case study. With an R rated movie, you get to say the F-word as many times as you want. PG-13, I believe you have one. It was such an interesting process for us to be like, ‘What’s the one?'”