The Guardian did a very interesting profile of Viola Davis, in which she also talked about working on How to Get Away With Murder.

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She revealed that the ABC show allowed her to play "a messy, mysterious dark-skinned woman who looks like me." The show has been a breakthrough in her career as her portrayal of Annalise won her an Emmy for a leading lady in a drama, also making her the first African American woman to have won the award.

The actress also spoke about how she didn't completely agree with every aspect of the part and wanted to expand on the role.

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"I said I would only take the job if I could take my wig off, but really that was a metaphor for something much larger. I'll play a mysterious, sexualised woman if I can explore why she's mysterious and sexual because that's the only thing that's going to make her human - and that's the only thing I know to do. I don't know how to smoke around in Alexander McQueen outfits, or diet myself down to a size two. It's all about the choices you make," she said. "And what I mean by that is the choice of how you look, how you do your hair, how you choose to show your body. If the writer says: 'What do you think?', well, what are you telling them? In 2015, just like people say men have to 'man up', we have to 'woman up' and live our truths through our work and define ourselves in our terms, not the Mr Potato Head model of male desirability."

Season 2 will return in January.

The midseason finale episode, titled "What Did We Do?," aired on ABC on Nov. 19.

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