By focusing on society’s most marginalized voices, Orange Is the New Black helped usher television into a new era
debuted back in 2013, it was one of the first original series created by Netflix—then best known as a mail-order-DVD company. The prison dramedy was focused on society’s most marginalized voices—black and Latino women, queer and trans women, drug addicts, rape survivors, and the mentally ill—and its debut helped usher in aNetflix’s vice president of original content, thought at the time thatwas a huge risk. Even she didn’t know if viewers would connect to the show’s diverse cast of characters.
“I am so proud of the show and the impact it has made. The fact that we took on all of the story lines—from trans rights to prisoner reform and immigration—these are important issues that should be represented, and the show raised awareness for a lot of these issues,” said starwho also returned to the director’s chair for an episode this season. “Being part of the show that takes these things on, it’s not just a job as an actor or director. It’s so much more.
who plays the headstrong inmate Maria. “There’s nothing more powerful than that. There is so much love when women come together, and there was so much love and respect with our cast. Women are going to speak to you from the heart, and that’s the most truthful place. It’s sad there aren’t other shows like ours with a female cast with different body types, different nationalities, on the screen.
“I think the legacy of our show is that we helped conversations about diversity shift, especially with representations about women and LGBTQ people,” said Cox, who got emotional while talking on the arrivals carpet. “I was watching that new HBO showThe way her story is written—in the first episode, you don’t even know she’s trans. She’s just a beautiful, complicated, highly troubled human being played by a brilliant actress who happens to be trans. She’s portrayed in a way for who she is.
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