Jack Falahee, Matt McGorry, Aja Noami King, Alfred Enoch, and Karla Souza talk instafame, working with Viola Davis, and their secret slumber parties in an exclusive BuzzFeed News roundtable interview.
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LOS ANGELES — A year ago, Jack Falahee was a Lyft driver, Alfred Enoch had never worked in America, and no network television show would dare talk about eye-watering anal sex acts. But all that changed with the seismic debut of How to Get Away With Murder in September 2014.
Starring Viola Davis as the morally ambiguous law professor Annalise Keating, the ABC drama — created by Peter Nowalk and executive produced by Shonda Rhimes — revolves around a college student's murder and the five law students (Jack Falahee's Connor Walsh, Alfred Enoch's Wes Gibbins, Aja Naomi King's Michaela Pratt, Matt McGorry's Asher Millstone, and Karla Souza's Laurel Castillo) working with Keating to unmask the killer.
Ratings, fans, and awards poured in as How to Get Away With Murder became the season's breakout hit and turned each of its five burgeoning stars into bonafide celebrities. Falahee, McGorry, King, Enoch, and Souza recently visited BuzzFeed's Los Angeles office for an exclusive roundtable interview. In between fits of laughter, each spoke candidly about what they initially thought of each other, the fears they faced working on the series, life at the center of the media circus that is a new ShondaLand series, and the bond they forged a year ago — at an ice cream slumber party — that helped make How to Get Away With Murder the success it is today.
The cast of How to Get Away With Murder at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in July 2014.
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It's been almost exactly one year since you assembled in Philadelphia to film the pilot, right?
Jack Falahee: Yes. We got there the last week of February.
Alfred Enoch: Did we?
JF: Yes, because it was week after my birthday. Which is coming up.
Matt McGorry: Subtle.
AE: It's strange because it feels like it's been a very long time in a sense.
Karla Souza: But I also feel like it's gone by quickly.
At this point last year, had everyone been cast?
JF: I don't think Karla and I were cast yet. I got cast two days before my birthday. Which, again, is on the 20th you guys.
AE: (laughs) OK.
MM: Two of you guys were cast at the same time, right? I remember the Deadline article had two people in it. Oh! It was Alfie, because I looked up Alfie and his IMDb profile was not up to date and I thought, I think this guy was a background player in Harry Potter..." I mean, you were 9 years old in that picture.
ANK: Alfie, when you were cast, my managers were like, "Oh, Alfie, huh? I wonder if he's single. Are you going to date Alfie?" I was like, "He's 5 years old you guys."
JF: When Karla got cast, I googled her and the first 25 photos were just...
MM: Bikini!
JF: Yes! Just bikini shots. Like, modeling photos from Maxim or something and I was like, "Ugh, they cast some model on this show?!?" (laughs)
ANK: I remember when Jack was cast I was like, "Oh, this dude is too good looking. He's gonna be an asshole for sure."
Do you always google actors you're not familiar with when you're cast opposite them?
AE: Yeah, definitely.
JF: For sure.
MM: Absolutely.
AE: My problem is I'm very unaware, so I don't know who anyone is. Then I google them and then I'm still none the wiser.
MM: Alfie still doesn't know who Benedict Cumberbatch is. (laughs)
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