Taylor Ferber | November 13, 2014 4:15 pm

It’s nothing against you, Alfred Enoch. But as your TV like interest, How To Get Away With Murder‘s Katie Findlay says getting naked in front of America is “never not weird.” Despite some awkwardness, Findlay and the rest of the Murder cast are handling the show’s risqué scenes like champs, helping Shonda Rhimes make a groundbreaking freshman series.

The spunky, down-to-earth actress gave VH1 a peak at the day in the life of Murder‘s Rebecca, and what it’s like not only being a part of Shondaland, but effective with such a HOT cast. We’re talking to you, Alfred, Jack Falahee, and Matt McGorry. We may have even questioned her to play a little round of Smash, Marry, Kill…

VH1: Congratulations on the show being such a huge success! How are you feeling about it all?

Thank you! I’m splendid! We sort of just hide away in our little studio and do our jobs and have a nice time together. We sort of forget, I reckon, that the rest of the world is considering it, too. Day to day, it’s dreadfully silent and then every once a while, we step out and realize how noisy it is out here. It’s a little bit of a moment.

When I interviewed Jack, he said that you guys really don’t know that much of what’s going to be happening in advance.

Yea that’s right.

Is not knowing how everything will unravel for your character hard?

Sometimes! It really challenges your urge as an actor to always know exactly what’s going on. But when you think about it, people going through their lives aren’t internally set for every emotional situation they’re going to be in. I’ve started to just embrace it and play what’s in front of me and try to know this goal, rather than know every release second what’s going on, because in real life, she wouldn’t.

Do you feel like you identify with Rebecca?

I do in some ways. Something that was hard for me about playing Rebecca is [that] I see her as someone who has grown up without a support system, and I’m not like that. I have a wonderful family, and I can come crying to my mother and she’ll set me straight no matter what. I look at Rebecca as a bigwig who’s been disapproved of [for] so much her entire life [that] it started to form the fabric of who she really is. Everything she does is just to make sure that she survives; it’s not out of selfishness or malice for other people. She just never had a reason to stop looking out for herself, and let someone else do it. It really took a lot of work and a lot of putting myself in that place to figure that out about her. But I am really sarcastic and I do wear a lot of black…

How do you feel about the show’s sex scenes? Are you comfortable shooting them?

I’m a very awkward person generally, so I will admit to being really uncomfortable and nervous and nervous, and not wanting to do anything incorrect or make anything weird. Alfie is a wonderful person. He’s a splendid guy so… really if this is going down verbatim, just say that he’s terrible, just terrible! But no, he’s splendid and we work really well together, and it’s really not horrible when you’re [part of] a cast who know each additional. We all talk and we’re all friends. I mean, it is weird pretending to be naked in front of 20 people, while people instruct you on the proper way to, you know, mack on someone who you [just] had lunch with.

It’s really not romantic at all.

It really feels like work, and it’s really quite amusing a lot of the time, because all it takes is one little thing to shake the moment up and then you start laughing because you realize what you’re doing. You know, someone vacant, “No, no, don’t touch her that way! Kiss here so that we see more of your face!” And it’s just too amusing and truly uncomfortable in my experience. Things get weird. Getting naked in front of what you then later realize is 9.3 million people is never not weird for me, in person.

Are you surprised with how much hype this show is getting in terms of all the sex?

I mean, I’m not really surprised because I know Shondaland. I know [its] shows get a lot of hype and attention and it’s always very community-caught up and people like to get into it. People are more remarking on the fact there is gay sex and straight sex on the show that’s given the same amount of time and the same amount of normalcy. It’s just treated like two people wanting each other rather than a big deal, and I think that when you don’t see something very much, it is shocking and noteworthy when it finally comes down the pipes.

Do you feel like it was necessary for this to take place? It must be a cool feeling being a part of this because it’s almost a movement in a way.

It is! I’m pleased to be on the show where all different kinds of people are allowed to like all different kinds of people. People are allowed to just look the way that they look — everyone on the show comes from somewhere uncommon, has a different body, wants different things. You know, Viola [Davis] taking off her wig, and her makeup and just being this gorgeous woman on screen, unadorned, was really incredible to watch. I think that it’s good to remind people that everyone is here and we’re all here together. If you’re out in the world, you should be able to look at the television and see someone who reminds you of you — someone that you can relate to, a situation you can relate to — and I think the scope of that has gotten smaller. I think that Murder is making a new path.

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