When asked what was the best part of her nomination for an Emmy Award, she said that the performing industry is very ageist so younger people get bypassed a lot. She said that it is one of the most difficult things to change because the only people who fight for it are young people, and by the time anyone’s willing to listen, they’re grown up and they’re not young persons anymore.
Williams cited the UK as an example where a lot of 16-year-olds are fighting to get the vote, and by the time anyone will listen to them, the ringleaders of that will then be 18 and it’ll be like they have aged already.
She really finds it tough, and it’s the hardest thing to fight because a person can only fight it by being young and it does not stay long.
Setting those emotions aside, she felt amazing to be acknowledged by the Academy, describing it as mind-blowing because it’s not something that happens all the time because she won’t be young forever, so it means an awful lot to be 19 years old and got nominated.
She added that there are people younger than her who have been nominated and younger people than her who have won. She said it is not about that because just to be a part of young actors being acknowledged is already special for her.