How Fate Plucked Allison Williams From YouTube Obscurity and Dropped Her on Her Dad’s Friend’s TV Show [Video]

In making the unending publicity rounds for Girls, co-star Allison Williams has been peddling a YouTube discovery myth: Producer Judd Apatow, the tale goes, happened to come across a video of her singing a self-produced mash-up of the theme song to Mad Men in October 2010 and immediately knew that she was the actress to play Marnie, Lena Dunham’s uptight girlfriend. More »