natasha lyonne played nicky nichols dad on orange is the new black.
natasha lyonne played nicky nichols dad on orange is the new black.
who plays nicky nichols dad on orange is the new black?
natasha lyonne
laura prepon and yael stone were next to join the series, as alex vause and lorna morello, respectively. abigail savage, who plays gina, and alysia reiner, who plays fig, had auditioned for role of alex vause. prepon initially auditioned for piper chapman, however kohan felt she would not worry about her [in prison], noting a "toughness and a presence to her that wasn't right for the character." kohan instead gave her the role of alex. stone had originally auditioned for the role of nicky nichols, but she was not considered "tough enough" for the character; she was asked to audition for lorna morello instead. likability was important for morello, whom casting director jen euston deemed "a very helpful, nice, sweet italian girl." natasha lyonne was to audition for alex, but was asked to read for the character nicky nichols; "[kohan knew] she could do nicky with her eyes closed. she was perfect," said euston. laverne cox, a black transgender woman, was cast as sophia burset, a transgender character. "the advocate" touted "orange is the new black" as possibly the first women-in-prison narrative to cast a transgender woman for this type of role. uzo aduba read for the part of janae watson but was offered the character suzanne "crazy eyes" warren. taryn manning was offered the role of tiffany "pennsatucky" doggett. "this american life" host ira glass was offered a role as a public radio host, but he declined. the role instead went to robert stanton, who plays the fictional host maury kind.
orange is the new black
lorna morello (played by yael stone) – a hyperfeminine and often racist italian-american inmate, with a strong accent that inexplicably mixes regional features from both new york city and boston. lorna is usually sweet and positive, though she can also be very paranoid and manipulative. she seems to suffer from some sort of mental illness, possibly borderline personality disorder . she is the first inmate that piper talks to, since she was in charge of driving the van that transports inmates, and she helps piper acclimate in her first few days. she had a casual sex relationship with her friend nicky nichols, but broke it off due to feelings that she was cheating on her "fiancé" christopher. it is eventually revealed that christopher was a man whom she had obsessively stalked and threatened at the same time that she was running a mail-order scam, and the reason she is in prison is because she placed a car bomb under his car. lorna also gets caught in the middle of pornstache and red's drug-smuggling operations. when she is left alone during a driving errand while miss rosa is at a chemotherapy appointment, she drives to christopher's house and breaks in. while there, she takes a bath wearing his fiancée's wedding veil and falls asleep, waking up just in time to escape before she is seen. christopher suspects her for the break-in, and later visits the prison to confront and threaten her, finally shattering her obsessive delusions. at the end of the second season, lorna allows rosa to steal the van after finding out that she only had a few weeks to live so that she would not die in prison. in the third season, she becomes depressed and lonely after being relieved of her duties as the van driver and losing nicky, who was sent to maximum security at the beginning of the season. to cope, as well as to get extra commissary money, she decides to start writing to multiple men. after visiting with several different men, she starts a relationship with a man named vince "vinny" muccio. as the two get closer, lorna manipulates vince into gathering some of his friends and beating christopher up. eventually, lorna and vince get married in the prison's visitor center and they consummate their marriage in the visitor's snack room. in the fourth season, lorna is angered when nobody has any reaction to the news that she is married. it is soon pointed out to her that she actually knows almost nothing about her new husband, and she realizes that it may well be true when alex asks her what his favorite color is and she cannot answer. she later discovers while talking to vinny on the phone that he lives with his parents, but is not perturbed. nevertheless, she begins to annoy and disturb the inmates with her open phone sex conversations, including in the visiting room. she is overjoyed at nicky's return from max, but declines when nicky tries to convince her to restart their relationship. in the later part of the season, she begins to suspect that vinny is cheating on her with her sister, despite her having asked her sister to go and visit him herself, and ends up angrily accusing both of infidelity. subsequently, when red pairs her with nicky to search the grounds in order to keep them busy, she has to fend nicky off once again, but eventually confesses through tears that she is destroying her relationship and is powerless to stop herself. in season 5 she takes refuge in the pharmacy with nicky and helps distribute medicine to the inmates. she is shown to be visibly shaken when nicky confesses her love for lorna to brook soso. she eventually convinces nicky to have sex with her out of horniness, which she later blames on pregnancy hormones, despite not having taken a pregnancy test. she tells vince, who is waiting in the crowd outside the prison, that she is pregnant, but he immediately gets into his car and drives away. with both nicky and vince gone, lorna enters into a state of denial and refuses to give any other inmates medicine and tries to convince them that they don’t need it. she finally takes 12 pregnancy tests to confirm that she is pregnant, but has to be convinced by nicky that the tests are all actually positive and not just another delusion. at the end of the season she surrenders with the majority of the inmates and her fate is left unknown. in season 6 it is revealed that she ended up in d block at litchfield maximum security, and she is reunited with nicky. lorna is back together with vince and constantly talks about being pregnant, and she eventually gets wrapped up in the war between c block and d block. she becomes convinced to participate in the plan to attack c block during the kickball game, but then decides to remain out of the war and in a closet with nicky. however nicky is forced to go outside and play kickball, leaving her in the closet. during the game, lorna goes into premature labor or possibly suffers a miscarriage, and her fate and the fate of the baby are left unknown.
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