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00:00Now it's the sit down with Aja Naomi King.
00:02Hi Aja.
00:04On your new show, Gross Point Garden Society,
00:06you play Catherine, a perfectionist
00:08and the vice pres of the garden club,
00:09who's got a juicy secret.
00:11We're already hooked by the mystery,
00:13the romance, the drama.
00:15So Aja, what hooks you to a project?
00:17Writing, the writing.
00:18The writing will always be the thing.
00:20It's like, what is the story?
00:22Am I engaged by it?
00:24Is it like exciting me, challenging me?
00:27And when I read this script,
00:28I was just like, this is going to be so much fun
00:32to play dress up and boss people around.
00:36It's like, that's all I ever want to do.
00:38Are we back in high school?
00:39Yeah, except the cheerleader
00:41is going to set the band kid to jail.
00:43Aja, do you garden in real life?
00:45No, I don't garden.
00:49Like plants come to me to die.
00:52I am just like, how much do you want to survive?
00:55Cause you better make it on your own.
00:56I don't got time to keep you alive.
00:59I know the show filmed in Atlanta and I love the A.
01:03Have you gotten a chance to hang out
01:04and go out to eat with your co-stars?
01:06Or should we say partners in crime?
01:08Oh yes, yes.
01:10I mean, so we're still in Atlanta.
01:11We're still filming.
01:12Like, yes, I know.
01:14We're still going and it's amazing.
01:16I love it here.
01:17The city is so beautiful.
01:18There's so many green spaces, which is really incredible.
01:22Especially when you're a parent
01:23and you have the aquarium and the zoo and these huge parks.
01:27And then with my cast mates, like, yeah, the food here,
01:29the food scene is stunning.
01:33We are eating very well.
01:35Your beautiful son is growing up fast.
01:38He's three now and we know he is such a blessing for you.
01:41Is he a mama's boy or a daddy's bestie?
01:43He is daddy's bestie.
01:44He literally, he said he wanted to cut his hair,
01:48which was devastating to me.
01:51And he was like, I want my hair short like daddy.
01:54And I was just like, oh God.
01:57Like, but okay.
01:58Because we want him to have ownership over himself.
02:02You know, like, yes, this is your hair.
02:04You can cut it.
02:04Hair grows, it's fine.
02:06And so he got his big boy haircut
02:09and it made him look older.
02:10And I was just like, oh my God,
02:12like you're not a little baby anymore.
02:15But he's so happy.
02:15He has so much energy.
02:18They're like out in mammoth snowboarding right now.
02:23Yes, I got a little snowboarder on my hands.
02:26Has he seen you in an ad or maybe seen you on TV
02:29and been like, yeah, that's my mom.
02:30There'll be moments like when,
02:33when there was a billboard after the Emmy nomination,
02:36we definitely drove to the billboard
02:38to have a little family photo in front of it.
02:41And he was like, that's you.
02:44Like he didn't understand, but he was like,
02:47oh, that's you mommy.
02:49That's a picture of you.
02:51And like to see him like recognize me,
02:53like he has no concept of this,
02:56but like it was, it did something for me
02:59to hear him go like, that's you.
03:01And I was just like, that is me.
03:05Mommy's doing it.
03:06You helped us all fall in love
03:08with one of our forever fave shows,
03:10How To Get Away With Murder.
03:12But girl, it wrapped almost five years ago.
03:14How is that possible?
03:16I know, it's insane.
03:18It's like, it blows my mind.
03:20Someone said to me the other day
03:21that it was like 10 years since the premiere
03:24of How To Get Away With Murder.
03:27And I was like, how, how is that possible?
03:30I feel like that was just yesterday.
03:33Oh, and that, yeah, that experience,
03:36that was, that was so incredible.
03:38That was the best.
03:38Like, yeah, I'll always like, you know.
03:42We also love Viola Davis here at People.
03:45And we know she keeps tabs on our Instagram.
03:48Let me ask you to send her a message.
03:50Viola, you are incredible.
03:52You continue to be incredible
03:54and to inspire all of us.
03:56No one does it like you do it.
03:58You are one of a kind.
03:59You are phenomenal.
04:00And we're just so grateful
04:02that we get to witness your greatness.
04:05All right, we're going to put 10 seconds on the clock.
04:07Tell everyone why they should watch
04:09Gross Point Garden Society.
04:11Ready? Go.
04:12If you want to see the show
04:13that is going to satisfy everything
04:14you have ever wanted to see in a TV show
04:16that is thrilling and sexy and fabulous
04:18and funny and dramatic and just shocking,
04:21then watch Gross Point Garden Society
04:22on NBC at Sundays at 10 p.m.
04:25and next day on Peacock.
04:28Asia, thank you so much for joining us.
04:30Thank you. You too.
04:32You're so wonderful.