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Cicely Tyson
Viola Davis had never worked with Cicely Tyson before, but she requested that Tyson play her mother, Ophelia, on HTGAWM. Tyson was already in character when she met Davis on set, and the acting legend did something that Davis did not expect. “When I walked in and I saw her standing at the door to greet me and this beautiful smile on her face, I knew if I broke that moment I would be finished,” said Tyson in a LA Times interview. “I totally rejected her.” And if you saw the two of them on screen, you know why Tyson made that decision. Said Davis, “I really felt like a child being reprimanded by a parent, that kind of smallness you feel, which I felt was appropriate.”
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