# @violadavis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBNhyFAOnwa
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24087564-violadavis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-10-17T04:11:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Viola Davis (@violadavis) — https://gondola.cc/violadavis

## Caption

🔥❤️🙏🏿 #HTGAWM 
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marieclairemag

Do YOU remember where you were on October 16, 2014?

Ask any ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ fan to describe an iconic scene from the show, and they’ll mostly likely tell you about the moment in season 1 where Annalise Keating (played by #ViolaDavis) removes her wig. 

As Naughty Boy’s “No One’s Here to Sleep” plays in the background, we see Annalise take off her jewelry, wig, and makeup, stripping away the armor that comprises her indomitable image in court and her law classroom. 

It’s a rare image of a Black woman unmasking her vulnerability, a nuanced depiction that we rarely saw at the time, particularly from an older Black queer woman. 

To this day, it is one of the most impactful portrayals of Black women on television.At the link in bio, quinciwho speaks with #HTGAWM executive producer shondarhimes, creator Peter Nowalk, and violadavis about the pre-production choices that led to the wig scene, which was spearheaded by Davis herself. photos: abc

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