Viola Davis and Mike Colter are second cousins, but they only met for the first time in April

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"We’re just very busy," Evil star Colter said of the How to Get Away with Murder star on The Talk. "In L.A. you could be right next to someone, in the same neighborhood, you’re never home; you’re filming somewhere; they’re busy, life happens. And we just never got caught up… I figured we would just work it out, and we connected, and we just made it happen. Took us about a week. We were like, ‘Let’s get some coffee and talk,’ and I met her mom. Good times.”