Cicely Tyson Visits 'HTGAWM' 

Cicely Tyson rolls into Viola Davis’ life on Thursday’s “How to Get Away with Murder.” Why did Viola get an icy reception from Cicely on the first day of filming?

And you now ain\'t got no husband, ain\'t got no boyfriend and how old up in this bed like the queen the sheba. Sisry tiesing rolls in on "How to get away with murder" airing at 10:00 on ABC. Sicily\'s career features stand outperformances in "Sounder" the autobiography of miss Jane Pittman, roots and "The help" of course, and she told me nothing compares to what she has to say in "Murder." I\'ll bet you were saying lines you\'ve never said in -- Never in my whole entire career. I will be on a plane to dubai when it airs, because folks are going to be looking for me. Couldn\'t keep his peter in his pants, and then slept with a white woman. So the call comes in, and they say we want you to play Ana Lisa\'s mother Ophelia. I was stunned. It took me a few minutes before I could regain my composure. Did viola have to call you up. Did she tell you, Ms. Tyson -- No, no. I personally requested you? No, no, I didn\'t learn that under fairly recently when I read it. In the newspaper. Despite viola\'s grand gesture, she got an icy reception from sicily on the first day of filming, which sicily says was due to her method acting. I know what you\'ve been up to calling me up, about I need you. Hell yes. When I arrived Scherr was standing at the door, and this smile that opens up the heavens came across her face. Yeah. And because I was already in the role of Ophelia, I did not react to it. I walked right back her as if she didn\'t exist. It took me a couple days before I actually could kind of shed the character, release the character? Yeah, and be. Despite an Oscar nomination, a Tony and three emmys, the legendary actress says landing roles is still a struggle. I have to wait until a role is written for a woman, then wait for a black woman, and then ageism came along.