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Viola Davis removes her wig and makeup in an unforgettable "HTGAWM" scene.
That goal was certainly put to the test when the show asked her to shed her makeup and wig for an unforgettable scene just four episodes in to its freshman season.
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Viola Davis on the cover of TheWrap's EmmyWrap magazine.
In the scene, Annalise strips her makeup and wig just ahead of a confrontation with her husband. And Davis was going to make sure that she would represent herself truthfully.
"You know, as soon as you walk through the door, what do you do?" she explained to the website. "You take off your bra, you let your ti----es sag, you let your hair come off-I mean my hair. I mean, I don't have any eyebrows. I let my eyebrows be exactly what they are. And it's me. And I wanted that scene to be somewhere in the narrative of Annalise. That who she is in her public life and who she was in her private life were absolutely, completely diametrically opposed to one another. Because that's who we are as people. We wear the mask that grins and lies."
And by the way, she did the scene in one take. Again, for very real reasons.
" I didn't feel like putting that makeup on again," the 49-year-old laughed. "So yes, absolutely it was one-take."
Watch Davis describe the scene below: