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"The first uptight New Yorker to win our hearts was Monica Geller from Friends. Then there was Sex and the City's beloved Charlotte York Goldenblat. Now, the newest addition to the compulsive perfectionist club is none other than darling Marnie Michaels from HBO's hit series Girls. Marnie, played by the very talented Allison Williams, has effortlessly earned her place amongst the ranks of the put together, competitive, ultra-responsible, conservative ladies who lunch that have a weekly standing date in our living rooms (or on our laptops for most of us). Judd Apatow discovered Allison after viewing a YouTube video of hers, and ever since then, she has played a signature role in Lena Dunham's imaginative world of Girls. As the show comes back for its second season on Sunday, January 13, we caught up with Allison Williams for an inside look on her character's return to the screen and what awaits Marnie the second time around!\n\nThe characters on the show are at times painfully realistic. Do you ever collaborate with Lena on your role?\n\n \"She's so brilliant, I would never endeavor to have anything to do with that. Marnie is hers; I just breathe life into it. I'm so lucky to have this awesome character and I feel like I know her really well and I'm always in her corner, rooting for her every step of the way. But she really is a creation of Lena's both life and imagination.\"\n\nDuring an episode, there are countless uncomfortable moments to watch. Is it awkward on set while you're filming a scene?\n\n \"Oh, it's so not! I promise it's more awkward to watch than it is to film. The only way to get through those scenes is to just laugh your way through them, and we do that. There's so much laughter on our set, and the more laughs, the more risqu\u00E9 the scene is.\"\n\nYou and the other girls seem so close! Does the cast hang out when the show isn't filming?\n\n \"We really look forward to getting to spend time together and catching up. We genuinely love each other and cherish the time we have together but understand that we each have our own lives and we're pretty quiet, independent people outside of the show. This show is emotionally honest, so we've really gotten to know each other very well over the last couple of years.\"\n\nDo you think the show is a love letter to New York, particularly Brooklyn?\n\n \"The show could not be faked. It couldn't be shot anywhere else. It's so much of New York. I'm a Manhattan girl; I know much more about Manhattan, so I loved getting a tour of Brooklyn while shooting the show. It feels good to be coming into a place where I have restaurants I love and where I know the items on the menu by heart. There's something very comforting about that.\"\n\nWhat changes will we see in Marnie's wardrobe this season?\n\n \"This season is so different! She has a work uniform, and she is a little more dressed down at times because she's just trying to look more casual and cool. She takes a couple of chances this season, but she's still trying to wear those very grown-up dresses. She still can't get it out of her head that she's a working woman.\"\n\nWhat happens to Marnie and her best friend (now former roommate) Hannah Horvath? Do they resolve their issues?\n\n \"I think this is a very common phenomenon: what happens when you get to know someone in one context\u2014in this case, college\u2014and then you test that friendship by putting it in another context entirely\u2014so, in this case, New York City. It has to readjust and reshape itself in this new place. Sometimes it survives the transition and sometimes it doesn't. We're seeing two people trying very hard in very different ways to resuscitate a friendship. So, their task is to figure out: if we don't have those dorms anymore, we're not going to bump into each other on our way to classes, how are we going to make this city feel small enough that our friendship can flourish here and do we even want that to happen?\"\n\nDoes Charlie come back into the picture? Is Marnie still in love with him?\n\n \"They're both very different than when they met, so the question is similar to that with Hannah: we found each other in this context, can we possibly make it in this new one? The answer in season one was no, the answer in season two is: I don't know if I'm satisfied with that answer, can I become appealing to you again? It's one of those situations where she is not fully comfortable with the idea of him moving on. Whether or not that means she has feelings for him or that she just doesn't want him to have feelings for anyone else remains to be seen.\"\n\nAre you ever nervous that if you share dating stories with Lena or cast mates it may get written into the script somehow?\n\n \"Lena is a master writer and I think she pretty much mines her own life for that material. She is very trustworthy and she is very discreet and understands the boundaries very well. I can imagine it would probably be tempting on some occasions to just take something we're saying and put it right into the show, but she's very good about that.\"\n\nWhat can we expect from Marnie in the second season of Girls?\n\n \"With Marnie, I think what we're essentially seeing is someone realizing that you can't cut corners in becoming an adult. There's no way around those uncomfortable growing pains of realizing who you are, what you want in life, what kind of people you like and what kind of people you hate. She's by no stretch of the imagination done at the end of season two, but she's definitely made progress to getting to know who she is.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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