YUM! How to Get Away with Murder’s Jack Falahee

Yeah, yeah, powerhouse Viola Davis, give her the Emmy, BLAH BLAH BLAH but did you catch THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH – Jack Falahee – on last night’s How to Get Away with Murder premiere? He plays the morally ambiguous gay character Conner Walsh and he was absolutely DAZZLING! Now, back when I was the only person watching ABC Family’s Twisted, I predicted that he would become a breakout star, and gushed about him on a number of occasions RIGHT HERE ON THIS BLOG. You didn’t care then, but maybe you’ll sit up and take notice now. I mean: Just look at him. He’s got the face of a young Johnny Depp. It actually HURTS YOUR RETINAS to look at him.

He’s profiled in this week’s issue of OUT magazine:

Jack Falahee looks as though he’s just stepped out of a Jay McInerney or Bret Easton Ellis novel. He bears a rather eerie resemblance to the slick cut-glass-cheekbone type that always seemed to end up the Byronic hero in 1980s fiction, the prep-school dreamboat with the dark past and the bright new BMW. This is actually not far from the flawless charmer he plays on ABC’s brooding new legal drama, How to Get Away With Murder (premiering September 25). As gay law student Connor Walsh, Falahee manages to come across as simultaneously brilliant, arrogant, manipulative, sexually pred-atory, and totally irresistible.

“My character is someone who is entirely confident, entirely comfortable with who he is,” says the 25-year-old native of Ann Arbor, Mich., a lock of hair falling just so against his smooth forehead. “Connor is one of those people no one has ever said no to.” Falahee pauses, and his careful, measured delivery—which up to this point has echoed that of his calculating alter ego—suddenly gives way to a warm, wide, thoroughly Midwestern grin. “I am not that guy,” he says, laughing. “I have all the usual quirky insecurities that everyone has. Connor isn’t ever insecure. And that makes him really fun to play.”

Writer, creator, and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder Peter Nowalk reveals that Connor (Jack Falahee), the gay character, is definitely going to have a romance in the first season, right off the bat, starting with the second episode. It was in important to show a gay person as a full-fledged character.”