NEW YORK (AP) – “Losing your shadow: What is THAT about?” muses Allison Williams. “As a kid you just accept it. But as an adult, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it means.”
Williams, at 26 best-known for the HBO series “Girls,” feels her life since childhood has pointed toward Thursday at 8 p.m. EST, when she (and her shadow) will headline NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!”
As a toddler, she was already listening to the Broadway recording of “Peter Pan,” and she viewed the 1960 NBC telecast starring Mary Martin countless times.
She even played Peter Pan with her grandparents.
“It was the only way they could get me into the bathtub,” she recalls. “My grandmother would be Wendy, and she would take a toothpick and dental floss and pretend to sew my shadow on while I was splashing around. My father was Captain Hook. That was our game.”