An INCREDIBLE interview with Viola Davis, @32:30:
Listen. Me being cast as Annalise alone, stop, exclamation point, is OMG. And people just kind of nod their heads and I’m like, “Okay, you name an example of anything like that on network television?” The fact that they cast a woman who’s dark-skinned and 50, who’s my size, my everything, taking off a wig in an episode, doing all of those things. What it does right is worth a whole lot. At least we’re trying to reach a ten. You might fall short, but at least you’re trying to reach a ten — you’re not trying to reach a two and doing a really good two job. So I think they do a lot of things really, really well.
Viola Davis on the Importance of Being Annalise Keating and Why She’ll Do Anything If She Can Fail Greatly, Vulture.com, March 11, 2016.