{"id":292395,"date":"2020-05-14T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1152060"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:39:58","slug":"viola-davis-wanted-to-be-the-show-and-got-her-wish-in-how-to-get-away-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/viola-davis-wanted-to-be-the-show-and-got-her-wish-in-how-to-get-away-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis Wanted to &#8220;Be the Show&#8221; and Got Her Wish in How to Get Away With Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020414\/rs_600x600-200514131740-600-viola-davis-murder-ch-051420.jpg?fit=around|1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Viola Davis<\/strong> said yes to <em>How to Get Away With Murder<\/em> back in 2014 for a simple reason: She wanted to &#8220;be the show.&#8221; Six seasons and an Emmy win later, it&#8217;s safe to say she accomplished just that.<\/p>\n<p>When Davis joined the series created by <strong>Pete Nowalk<\/strong> and executive produced by <strong>Shonda Rhimes<\/strong>, she already had two Oscar nominations and two Golden Globes nominations to her name for <em>Doubt<\/em> and <em>The Help<\/em>. She was a movie star. Before the breakout role in <em>Doubt<\/em>, Davis had guest roles on <em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>, <em>Without a Trace<\/em> and <em>The Practice<\/em>. There wasn&#8217;t really a&nbsp;widely noted small screen part, so naturally the question when her role in&nbsp;<em>How to Get Away With Murder<\/em> was announced was, &#8220;Why are you&nbsp;doing TV?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1152060\/viola-davis-wanted-to-be-the-show-and-got-her-wish-in-how-to-get-away-with-murder?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viola Davis said yes to How to Get Away With Murder back in 2014 for a simple reason: She wanted to &#8220;be the show.&#8221; Six seasons and an Emmy win later, it&#8217;s safe to say she accomplished just that. When Davis joined the series created by Pete Nowalk and executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 01:56:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}