UzoAduba

Wow.

First of all, thank you so much for your words. And thank YOU for being on the front lines of such a challenging and often forgotten group of people whom you are helping. I read the book about Piper Kerman's time in prison, and I also watched a lot of MSNBC's Lockup, and prison documentaries, previous to starting on this show, but for me, I never wanted to play her "crazy" as that's not as interesting to me. I really wanted to focus on the love story that I saw when I read it. And focus on her passion for life, and focus on the tactics that she's willing to employ to obtain that which she loves most, or wants to love. If anything, I'd say Suzanne doesn't think she's crazy, she thinks she's unique! I have a sensitivity and am really accepting and understanding that sometimes people's eccentricities or shortcomings, it's easy for us to judge sometimes and not handle them with the level of care they deserve. And i feel a responsibility for Suzanne for that reason.

Love doing improv comedy. SO MUCH FUN. And a dream of mine is to host SNL one day.

In season 2, it was really challenging for both myself as the actor to watch Suzanne take on Poussey in such a violent way (because I not only love Poussey the character, but I absolutely adore Samira Wiley). So that was hard. It was also really challenging to do the Uno cards scene, knowing that V was gone, and putting that lifetime of pain that Suzanne has felt into that moment. It hurt my heart.

Probably either Nicky Nichols & Piper, and I am so thankful that they are my friends and let me play!

I haven't yet met the thing that I don't like. I haven't met anything I don't like. Because I love to eat (we do cafeteria scenes), I like to take naps (we lay in the beds a lot) and my friends all work there. It's a pretty good gig. Maybe the shoes are too heavy? Because they have steel in the toes. I could live without the steel in the toes. In the cafeteria, they actually serve food from the nice restaurant next door - the chicken is dangerously good. And they give us Ruffle chips! Which is one of my favorite foods. They are one of my favorite brands. Chips are one of my favorite foods. What's not to like? Basically I just let you know that I just love to eat and sleep.