![]() ![]() I also hope the fans are inspired within their own communities. This is one way that fans can contribute directly to organizations that are doing that transformation on the ground. Many fans want the system to do better, to be reformed, to be transformed. Many fans who come to the show have some sort of personal lived experience relative to the criminal justice system. What can you tell me about the Poussey Washington Fund? That’s the reason that the show has inspired such passionate devotion. One of the most important things about the show is that it shows beautiful moments of humanity and kindness. American prisons and jails are harsh, horrible, incredibly punitive places, because that’s how we built them to be. For many people it is this watershed moment in how they think and feel about the show, and hopefully about the prison system. I almost cried yesterday, in that House hearing room, when they screened that scene. It’s a truthful telling of the world that we live in right now. That’s what’s important for people to understand. I get asked constantly, Is the show realistic? And I’m like, the show is very truthful. Not all stories have happy endings, that’s a truthful reflection of the world. That’s the one that really moves me the most. ![]() Danielle Brooks’s portrayal of her is really, really powerful. In the final season, did any character endings make you especially happy? Those are the most important story lines, as much as I love lesbian drama. And all of the work that the writers’ room did on the story lines involving motherhood, and the relationships between mothers and children. I am a big fan of that chicken story line. Almost any viewer could come to that show and find somebody that they care passionately about. I feel like the show is an absolute reflection of that. ![]() The book is really about a community of women. My hope was that the book would attract readers who wouldn’t otherwise read a book about prison and that they would come away thinking and feeling differently about the people they had read about. My book is often understood as a fish out of water story, because we’ve constructed a carceral system that’s focused disproportionately on poor people of color. But I appreciate that romance, these sort of star-crossed lovers.ĭid you know that Piper was going to be the bait-and-switch to get us to care about characters who weren’t white and middle-class? Is it ever weird watching your character do sex scenes? It’s hard to carry off that razor’s edge of humor. Larry has a good sense of humor and he loves Jason. How does your husband Larry feel about his fictional counterpart, Jason Biggs’s Larry? And then I did get to meet Taylor, and Taylor’s delightful. That was my greatest fear, that the show wouldn’t be good. My anxiety level began to drop as I watched the scene play out. The scene that they were shooting was a scene closely drawn from the book - the one where I insult Pop, the character that Red is adapted from. It was my first set visit, and I was very, very nervous. One of the things that I love about the show, and this applies to many characters, is that it flies in the face of a necessity for female characters to be “relatable” and “likable.” But Piper Chapman is a product of Jenji Kohan and her team’s writing and Taylor’s acting. I am basically a middle-class white woman and therefore fortunate and advantaged in terms of navigating the criminal justice system. How similar are Piper Kerman and Piper Chapman? (A few mild spoilers follow.) These are excerpts from the conversation. Last week, the day after she had testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee about the experiences of women and girls in the criminal justice system, she spoke about the final season - its sex, its tragedy, its chicken - and the fund the show has created to promote criminal justice reform and support formerly incarcerated women. In 2015, she and her husband, the writer Larry Smith, and their young son, relocated to Ohio, where she teaches narrative nonfiction in two correctional facilities. But Kerman is back in prison, voluntarily. In the seventh and final season, which began streaming on Netflix Friday Piper Chapman wins parole. Piper Kerman became Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a WASP convict whose story hooks the viewer just long enough to introduce dozens of characters who don’t have her white, middle-class advantages. She wrote a memoir, “Orange Is the New Black,” and that book, in the hands of the showrunner Jenji Kohan, became one of the first hits of the streaming era. ![]() In 2004, Piper Kerman, who had pleaded guilty to money laundering violations, entered federal prison. ![]()
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