--- title: Viola Davis Explains How Melania Trump Could Be on HTGAWM description: After hearing Melania Trump's favorite show is 'How to Get Away With Murder,' Viola Davis explains how the First Lady could score a cameo. canonical: https://time.com/5120380/viola-davis-melania-trump-how-to-get-away-with-murder/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-26T16:31:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:07.672Z og:title: Why Viola Davis Wants Melania Trump to Star on Her Show og:description: It's the first lady's favorite show og:url: https://time.com/5120380/viola-davis-melania-trump-how-to-get-away-with-murder/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Viola Davis Wants Melania Trump to Star on Her Show twitter:description: It's the first lady's favorite show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Viola Davis Explains the One Way Melania Trump Could Score a Cameo on Her Show  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 26, 2018 4:31 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 26, 2018 4:31 PM UTC Upon finding out that [Melania Trump’s](http://time.com/4972038/melania-trump-fashion-photo-gallery/) favorite show is [_How to Get Away With Murder_](http://time.com/3452693/how-to-get-away-with-murder-twitter-hashtag/), it was obvious that [Viola Davis](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736294/viola-davis/) had plenty of feelings about the [first lady’s fandom](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366503-melania-trumps-favorite-tv-shows-are-how-to-get-away-with-murder). However, Davis said that there would be one reason why she would want to have Melania do a cameo on the hit drama, the [New York _Times_](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/arts/donald-trump-melania-pop-culture-2017.html) reported was her show of choice. During an interview on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ on Thursday, Davis had a short but cogent answer for why Melania: “I really want to talk to the lady.” When Kimmel suggested that Davis might feel good bringing Melania joy by doing this, Davis emphatically disagreed but offered a very Annalise Keating suggestion for how she and Melania could have their chat. “No, I really just want the inside scoop,” she said jokingly. “I don’t want to give her any sort of pleasure, I just want the inside scoop. Me and her could have some vodka together.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5120380/viola-davis-melania-trump-how-to-get-away-with-murder/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5120380/viola-davis-melania-trump-how-to-get-away-with-murder/"},"headline":"Viola Davis Explains the One Way Melania Trump Could Score a Cameo on Her Show","datePublished":"2018-01-26T16:31:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:07.672Z","description":"It's the first lady's favorite show","url":"https://time.com/5120380/viola-davis-melania-trump-how-to-get-away-with-murder/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Viola Davis","Late Night Television","Melania Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5120380/viola-davis-melania-trump-how-to-get-away-with-murder/","name":"Viola Davis Explains the One Way Melania Trump Could Score a Cameo on Her Show"}}]}] ```