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Allison Williams Updos Dominated the 2018 Golden Globes Red Carpet

Allison Williams Updos Dominated the 2018 Golden Globes Red Carpet

When it came to hair, rather than the long, loose locks we’ve grown used to seeing on the carpet for recent awards, updos reigned supreme, with plenty of interesting takes that turned heads. Find out how some of Hollywood’s top stylists achieved red carpet perfection for their A-list clients below!

Allison Williams: The Get Out star twisted up her newly returned brunette locks in a striking braided bun updo that showed off her fierce brows and gorgeous face. In a press release, her stylist, Rebekah Forecast said, “For Allison’s confident personality and elegant demeanor, we went for a pulled-back modern and bold look to match. She recently became a brunette again, so I used the TRESemmé Keratin Smooth Color Smoothing Serum ($9) on her to protect her tresses and keep her color vibrant.” Forecast created waves using a flat-iron and a blow dryer before splitting her hair into top and bottom ponytails. She then braided each ponytail and fastened into two braided buns, creating a look that was equally retro and modern all at once.

Allison Williams Beauty Q&A

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Girls has only had two short seasons, but Allison Williams has already cemented her name on the short list of ladies-to-watch. In a sea of actresses one-upping each other in increasingly over-the-top looks, Williams' more classic, all-American approach is a welcome reprive. That fresh faced appeal extends to her beauty ethos too, which is chic yet unfussy, in a way that feels approachable. BAZAAR chatted with the new face of Simple, a range of ultra sensitive facial skincare products with a holistic philosophy, about her routines, inspirations and that famous alter ego.

Harper's Bazaar: What is your personal beauty philosophy?

Allison Williams: My philosophy is generally that the simpler it is, the better it will be. I am not someone who thinks that a million products will mean that you'll look perfect. I am definitely someone who subscribes to the notion that less is more when it comes to skin and hair, so it makes a lot of sense that I partnered with Simple Skincare because we share that notion. I didn't fully understand what a holistic approach to skin care was until I started working with them. I found it so immensely helpful—basically what they advise is that you really monitor how much water you drink, how much sleep you get, fitness, nutrition, et al, because they do end up impacting your skin. All of their products have ingredients that will not harm your skin.

HB: Has using a holistic approach to beauty products changed how you buy makeup?

AW: I'm always looking to do things more naturally, of course.

HB: How do you approach your beauty look for the red carpet?

AW: There's definitely consideration always for the lighting of the red carpet, the kind of flashes that are attached to those cameras. Makeup artists are trained to do makeup specifically for that kind of scenario. I'm someone who loves taking pictures from pages of magazines, I've pulled so many looks from the pages of your magazine...I can't even tell you. I am constantly taking pictures, I love this lip color, I love this lip shape, I love this eye, I love this eye shape, I love this shade of eye shadow, I love this blush... I'm constantly pulling from those kind of references and inspirations for red carpet looks. Often, if we choose the dress first we'll go from there. We'll see the dress and we'll see what kind of hair and makeup it dictates. It's all really fun.

HB: What's your beauty regime for a regular night out?

AW: As little as I can get away with! I try to always have a hair cut that I don't have to style every day, so I'll usually just let my hair air dry. For makeup, I'll use coverup if I need to, I'll put some coverup under my eyes, I'll do a little highlighter on my cheekbones, maybe cream blush, and then a dash of mascara and then I'm out the door.

HB: You're hair has become the thing that everyone talks about, what would be your reaction if you were asked to cut it for a role?

AW: Funny you should say that, I just cut my hair.

HB: Wow, you're going to shock people, how short?

AW: I cut about six inches off, it feels really strange. I'm still touching it so much I feel like a Valley Girl. But yes, I just cut it and it's a big adjustment but it felt kind of like a fresh start for fall and it feels good. I did it partially so that if and when someone asks me to cut it for a role I will feel less precious about it, because it is just hair, it's just insulation on the top of my head, but I do like to take good care of mine and I try not to over work it or overheat it or anything. But that said, I would be willing to do it for a role. Wigs are pretty amazing, so I would see if I could get away with a wig…but if not, off it goes!

Allison Williams on the Oscars 2018 Red Carpet Get Out

Allison Williams on the Oscars 2018 Red Carpet Get Out

Film Review: ‘Get Out’

Film Review: ‘Get Out’

Comedian Jordan Peele's race-based horror movie combines genuine thrills with a no-holds-barred critique of black-white relations.

“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” meets “The Stepford Wives” in “Get Out,” in which a white girl brings her black boyfriend home to meet her parents, whose superficially warm welcome masks an unthinkably dark secret. Blending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless — which is not at all the same thing as scareless. In fact, from the steady joy-buzzer thrills to its terrifying notion of a new way that white people have found to perpetuate the peculiar institution of slavery, “Get Out” delivers plenty to frighten and enrage audiences. But it’s the fact that Peele doesn’t pull a single one of his punches that makes his Blumhouse-backed debut a must-see event.

First teased in a secret midnight screening at the Sundance Film Festival, “Get Out” represents a searing political statement wrapped in the guise of a more innocuous genre: the escape-the-crazies survival thriller, à la “Deliverance” or “The Wicker Man,” where sympathetic characters are held captive by a deranged cult. Except in this case, the crazies are the liberal white elite, who dangerously overestimate the degree of their own enlightenment — which means that Peele hasn’t gone after the easy target (assumed-racist Trump voters) but the same group that voted for Obama (and would’ve elected him to a third term, if they could).

In theory, horror may seem like a stretch for Peele (one half of the “Key and Peele” sketch-comedy duo), and yet both genres feed on the desire to provoke a physical reaction from audiences. In “Get Out,” the protagonist, a dark-skinned black man named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, most recently seen in “Sicario”), is an up-and-coming big-city photographer who’s been dating a white girl, Rose (Allison Williams of “Girls”), for five months — long enough that he can’t wriggle out of an invitation to visit her family, even if the thought makes him nervous. “Do they know I’m black?” he asks.

Their love is color-blind, but the world isn’t — and Chris is rightfully wary of how other people might react to seeing them together. When they get to her folks’ house, however, the Armitage family’s reception couldn’t be warmer. Played by Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford, her parents are a hypnotherapist and a neurosurgeon, who welcome Chris into their tastefully furnished home without so much as batting an eye.

By this time, however, Chris has gotten in too deep, as the feel of “Get Out” shifts from eerie suspense-setting to full-on horror-movie mode — though it should be said that Peele has effectively kept audiences on edge since the beginning, sending occasional jolts through the crowd that, once viewers realize they’ve been tweaked, translate into appreciative “you got us!” laughs. Practically all horror movies use humor to modulate the tension, but Peele takes it further, carving out room for full-blown comedy to coexist alongside the increasingly unsettling mystery of what the Armitages have in store for their guest.

Clearly, “Get Out” will play very differently to black and white audiences — and if the film doesn’t rile a significant contingent of the latter, it simply isn’t doing its job. But there’s something telling in the underlying anxiety that Peele’s script exploits, from the opening scene (in which an uneasy black man walking alone in a predominately white suburb recalls the fate of Trayvon Martin) to the last, when the arrival of a police car suggests a near-certain turn for the worse.

What a watershed feat Peele has pulled off, delivering such a gloriously twisted thriller that simultaneously has so much to say about the state of affairs in post-Obama America. “Get Out” goes there, so to speak, and though one could argue that it crosses the line, the film’s subversive p.o.v. challenges the place of white privilege from which most pop culture is conceived. By revealing how the ruling majority gives freedoms, but they can also take them away, Peele seizes upon more than just a terrifying horror-movie premise; he exposes a reality in which African-Americans can never breathe easy.

Read more at: Film Review: ‘Get Out’

Jordan Peele - Best Original Screenplay - "Get Out" - Oscars 2018

Jordan Peele Is First Black Writer to Win Oscar for Best Original Screenplay

Jordan Peele made history by being the first black nominee for the Oscars' big three: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. With his Best Original Screenplay win for Get Out, he made history again, becoming the first black writer to win in the category.

"This means so much to me," Peele said while accepting the award. "I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible. I thought it wasn't going to work. I thought no one would ever make this movie. But I kept coming back to it, because I knew if someone let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it."

"I want to dedicate this to all the people who raised my voice and let me make this movie," he continued. "To the cast and crew, I love you, thank you so much. My wife, who supported me through this whole process. My mother, who taught me to love even in the face of hate. And to everybody who went and saw this movie. Everybody who bought a ticket, who told somebody to buy a ticket, thank you. I love you for shouting out at the theater, for shouting out at the screen."

Get Out was nominated for four Oscars in total this year: Best Picture, Daniel Kaluuya for Best Actor and Peele for both Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Peele was only the fifth black director to ever be nominated in the directing field.

Peele has had a massive awards season, especially considering he told ET that he "literally thought this was an unproduceable movie, because people seem to be afraid to take race on." Get Out not only went on to win favor with the Academy, but earned him an Original Screenplay award with the Writers Guild and Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director from the Directors Guild.

"I'm a very lucky man," Peele said when Get Out premiered. "I don't know how it goes up from here."

Daniel Kaluuya on His Get Out Oscar Nomination: ''It's the Dream''

At the red carpet premiere of his new film, Black Panther, on Monday night, Get Out's Daniel Kaluuya talked to E!'s Zuri Hall about what it was like to receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination earlier in the month for his career-making role as Chris Washington in the Jordan Peele-directed horror film.

The British actor, who has had a lot of buzz about him during the 2018 award season, admitted, "It's crazy. It's a relief...Especially for a film I believe in."

Kaluuya added that the film's success feels unreal and he couldn't be more thrilled. "It's like the dream. I am just so happy. I am so happy for everyone. I am happy that Get Out got nominated for [Best] Film. I am happy that Jordan got nominated—Jordan got nominated three times!"

The Sicario actor then admitted that after both he and Peele found out that they were nominated for Oscars, the Key and Peele funnyman called him on the phone and cried tears of joy.

Kaluuya added that he believed screen scribe deserved all the praise and admiration he was receiving for his hard work.

Daniel Kaluuya on Get Out, Black Panther, the Honesty of Genre-Bending

Daniel Kaluuya’s life is about to change and he knows it. An Oscar nominee for his performance in Jordan Peele’s critical and popular success “Get Out,” he also appears in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” releasing Feb. 16

“Usually I do a job and like two weeks later it disappears and is replaced with something else, but ‘Get Out’ kept growing and growing and growing and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before,” Kaluuya says. “It’s been a lot just because it’s something new. You’re trying to go, ‘Alright, cool, what does this mean? What do I do?’ And the answer’s always just be yourself. But I try and continue to make it about the work, because that’s the heart of it.”

The Oscar nomination (he was also received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe recognition) is particularly sweet for such an internal performance. What Kaluuya is doing in “Get Out” is the kind of clenched, observational work that can be both a challenge and a delight for an actor, but Kaluuya has smartly taken his cues from the masters he’s worked with to date.

There has been a lot of talk about genre with “Get Out.” The film was nominated in comedy categories at the Golden Globes, which stirred dissent, though Peele himself has noted the impact of comedy on the project since the beginning. For Kaluuya, the fact that it’s not an easily classifiable film just makes it all the more genuine.

“I love pieces like ‘Get Out,'” Kaluuya says. “Loads of stuff that I’ve done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called ‘Psychoville’ that’s a horror-comedy. Because I just think that’s what life’s like. Life ain’t a drama. And life isn’t just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it’s truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.”

How Allison Williams mined the horrors of white privilege for 'Get Out'

How Allison Williams mined the horrors of white privilege for 'Get Out'

It's been three days since Allison Williams dyed her hair blond. Before then, she'd spent the entirety of her 28 years as a brunet. Sitting at a booth encased by mirrored walls, she's still startled when she catches a glimpse of her reflection.

She made the change after a fashion magazine posed her on the cover in a platinum wig. But when the issue hit newsstands this month, the editors wanted her to actually get a dye job. And the more she thought about it, she realized the timing was kind of perfect.

"In a way," she says, "it was to help jump-start my thinking of myself in one way for so long and kind of reset those associations."

While it may seem frivolous, Williams' hair symbolizes a lot more than a bold new style choice. One week ago marked the start of the final season of HBO's "Girls" — the show she's been working on since she was 22, just a few months out of college. And on Friday, she'll appear in her first film, Jordan Peele's directorial debut "Get Out," a psychological thriller about an interracial couple.

Though she starred as Peter Pan in a live version of the musical on NBC in 2014, Williams has otherwise devoted herself completely to Lena Dunham’s show since its launch five years ago. In college, she worked for a summer as Tina Fey’s second assistant on the film “Baby Mama,” a movie-set experience she was so fond of that she was nervous no film experience would ever live up to it. She says she turned down dozens of scripts before “Get Out,” most of which offered roles that resembled her “Girls” character, Marnie Michaels, a prim, vain but well-meaning singer-songwriter.

"The descriptions of all the characters were, like, 'pretty — but doesn't know it,'" says Williams, having just rushed into her Sunset Boulevard hotel from the rain. "The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as 'Girls' is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn't feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high."

But Williams has always held herself to a high standard. As a girl, she'd make to-do lists for herself: "Do your homework as best as you can. Have a snack — not too big, though."

When she started working on "Girls," she never wanted to be late and made sure she'd always memorized her lines. When each season wrapped, she wrote thank you notes to every member of the crew — roughly 100 people — and delivered custom gifts like cake in a jar and embroidered tote bags.

"She's kind of a control freak," acknowledges "Girls" showrunner Jenni Konner. "Marnie became more of a control freak the more we got to know Allison. But as she learned to trust us, she started to let go a bit. You can tell her arc even from the way she became so much more fun in sex scenes. At first she was nervous, but now she makes Lena look shy."

On set, Konner says, Williams was open about her anxiety over making her first non-“Girls” move. She and Judd Apatow, the show’s executive producer, encouraged the actress to take her time with the decision.

"We were like, 'You're the youngest person on Earth, you have this great job that's working — don't be in a hurry to take a job,'" says Konner. "And then, of course, the thing she chooses is directed by Jordan Peele and ends up with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sometimes being a very controlling, considered person works out amazingly."

Indeed, since its surprise sneak-preview at the Sundance Film Festival last month, critics have praised "Get Out." Though ostensibly a horror flick, Peele's film offers stark commentary on racial politics as viewers watch the relationship between an African American twentysomething (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend (Williams) unravel. When the couple travel to the girl's home for the weekend — her name is Rose Armitage, if that gives you any indication of her background — it quickly becomes apparent that they come from very different worlds. Upon arrival, Rose's parents start making uncomfortable proclamations — "I'd elect Obama for a third term if I could," her dad announces — a seemingly obvious attempt to reassure their new guest that they're not racist. As it turns out, that's just a drop in the bucket.

Williams knows that part of the reason she was cast is because to some, she's the embodiment of the privileged white girl. "100%," she says. Her dad is MSNBC news anchor Brian Williams, and she grew up in New Canaan, Conn., a town that in 2008 had the highest median family income in the U.S. As a teenager, she attended the all-girls preparatory high school Greenwich Academy and then went on to college at Yale University. Her husband is Ricky Van Veen, the head of global creative strategy at Facebook, and Tom Hanks officiated their 2015 wedding on a Wyoming ranch.

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Allison Williams Puts Newly Blonde Hair Into a Cool Braid at 'Get Out' L.A. Premiere!

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Allison Williams Singing Why She Chose Yale

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Allison Williams re-imagines ‘Girls’ in Trump era

Allison Williams re-imagines ‘Girls’ in Trump era

Actress Allison Williams says she doesn’t like to get political – a feature, she claims, of being the daughter of MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.

But she has some distinct opinions about how President Donald Trump would have knocked her hit HBO show “Girls” in a dramatically different direction.

In the latest episode of POLITICO’s Women Rule podcast, Williams explains that in today’s political environment, Shoshana would “probably live in a sleeping bag outside the White House.” Marnie, the character Williams played, “would probably run for office.”

And as for the show itself, Williams says she has “a really hard time imagining that the show wouldn’t immediately have to move to D.C.”

“Girls needed to live in the Obama era,” Williams tells POLITICO editor Carrie Budoff Brown earlier this month at the MCON millennial activism conference in Washington. “I think there was a luxury to existential peace and calm that allowed the girls to live the lives they did.”

Allison Williams Wedding Dress Inspired by Duchess Kate

Allison Williams Wedding Dress Inspired by Duchess Kate

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