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Viola Davis pushed for Annalise’s sexual fluidity on HTGAWM after being inspired by Jazz Jennings

Viola Davis, the brilliant Oscar, Emmy, and Tony award winning actress, has done an interview with PrideSource and in it talks about her journey to LGBTQ acceptance, finding her power, and about why she is done with playing maids.

But the part of the interview that jumped out to me the most was when she explained how the sexual fluidity of her How to Get Away With Murder character came to be:

“I had everything to do with that. And so did (creator) Pete Nowak; I can’t leave him out. I really have to give him credit for that too. But yeah, absolutely. And also, “I Am Jazz”: I was watching that one night. I love that show. But I was watching that one night and (trans TV star and model Jazz Jennings) was playing in the closet with one of her friends who was a trans teenager, and it was just great. They were talking about who they see themselves with in the future, and they were like, “Whoever, you know. I’m open. I’m open to a boy, I’m open to a girl.” And they started talking about just the attributes of the people they wanted to be with.

That transformed me more than anything. I thought, “That is the greatest thing in the world,” and I thought that that was a great idea for Annalise because Annalise is so damaged, so traumatized that what if she just said, “I’m just open to love”? God, think about what we can explore there.”

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