For Viola Davis, ABC’s ‘Murder’ is a killer project

Star litigator Annalise Keating is on the offensive, trying to get a judge to approve a gag order to protect her client, murder defendant Rebecca Sutter.

In a scene from Thursday’s episode of ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder (10 p.m. ET/PT), Annalise (Viola Davis) leans forward at the defense table, speaking righteously of the harm done by leaked information while brandishing a newspaper. She wins her motion easily and sits down, but is back up in seconds, arguing strongly against an opposing lawyer’s surprise request.

“I’ve never had a role quite like this, that really shows all that I can do. I’m the lead of the show, someone who’s sexual, messy, mysterious, my age,” says Davis, 49. “I’ve never had someone who’s this complicated to work on.”

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