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Viola Davis on Her ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Role and Showing the Audience ‘All the Piss and the Poop and the Private Moments’


Viola Davis said that probably her proudest achievement was the creation of Annalise Keating in 'How to Get Away With Murder.'

Viola Davis said that probably her proudest achievement was the creation of her game-changing character Annalise Keating in legal drama thriller “How to Get Away With Murder,” during an onstage interview Thursday at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where many in the ecstatic audience had greeted her by declaring, “I love you, Viola.” She also spoke of the bravery that was required to stand up to the orthodoxy that held sway in network TV when the show launched 10 years ago. “I remember the phone call with Peter Nowalk, who is the showrunner-creator of ‘How to Get Away With Murder,’ and Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers, and the head of the studio [ABC Entertainment Group], Paul Lee.

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