‘Orange Is the New Black‘ Creator & Taylor Schilling Talk Nudity
About those nude scenes….
Fielding a question about the last time she placed a nervous call to Kohan to voice concerns over the edgy subject material, Schilling acknowledged to a rapt audience: “I’ve been scared of the nudity, so I’ve needed some hand holding.” In her case, the outgoing calls — and yes, there have been a series of them — are always about getting comfortable with the nudity involved in the show. And it is in those conversations with Kohan, she said, that she’s reminded of the truth of the scene, and the fact that there isn’t gratuitous sex or nudity in the Orange scripts. “It’s a physical manifestation of the internal vulnerability. Once that’s very clear, as an actor, I can go anywhere,” she said, adding: “I’ve gained a lot of confidence through that, too.” Kohan says she welcomes that kind of dialogue, and insists that she never writes nude scenes carelessly: “I better have a good reason because I know it’s asking a lot.”
Taylor Schilling (“Orange Is The New Black”)
Of course, Kohan’s all for more nudity
“If I had my way, I’d have a lot more,” Kohan said of the amount of nudity involved in the racy dramedy, prompting a series of quips about an entirely naked season 4. She added of her desire to showcase a variety of shapes, colors and sizes in the flesh, “We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, and we also have so little exposure to diversity in bodies.” Schilling echoed her showrunner’s point, noting the value of displaying a full range of bodies, as opposed to the size zero ideal being foisted upon us by the fashion industry. That conversation devolved into one about the size 22 model that People magazine put on its current cover. Though Brooks, who said she feels unrepresented by magazines, tipped her hat to the publication, the oft-outspoken Kohan interjected, “I don’t think she’s really a size 22.”
Taylor Schilling
Biography
Date of Birth 27 July 1984, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Taylor Schilling was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Robert, is a former prosecutor, and her mother, Patricia “Tish” (Miller), works in administration at MIT. Taylor attended Wayland High School, but graduated from West Roxbury High School in 2002, and made her film debut in Dark Matter (2007). She starred in the movies Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) and The Lucky One (2012), and has a role in director Ben Affleck’s Argo (2012).
As of 2013, she stars as Piper Chapman in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2013).