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First Look: Marcia Gay Harden on Her ‘Damaged’ How to Get Away with Murder Character

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BY LANFORD BEARD

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Marcia Gay Harden is no stranger to playing strong women. The Oscar winner has shared the screen with plenty of talented actresses, but going toe-to-toe with SAG winner Viola Davis certainly kept Harden guessing.

“You have to be on your game,” she tells PEOPLE of pairing with the How to Get Away with Murder star, 49. “You have to be ready to go right away. If she’s the quarterback, you’ve got to be ready to receive and then do a little dance of your own to make it exciting.”

In fact, guessing makes up pretty much the whole playbook on the Murder set, according to Harden, 55. “No one know what’s going on, including the actor. You don’t know much about your character or, more importantly, what’s coming in the future,” she says of the ABC whodunnit’s super secretive vibe. “You land on your feet, and you start running right away – and you want to be sure you’re running in the right direction. If you want to score a touchdown, you want to be running in the right direction!”

Harden extends her Super Bowl-ready metaphor to her first few days of shooting, saying they were more “running in circles.”

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