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vendredi 9 juin 2017

Before You Watch Orange Is the New Black, Read "Skinhead" Helen's Thoughts

Goodbye, weekend plans. It's time for Orange Is the New Black season five! The new season takes place in the aftermath of Daya seizing CO Humphrey's gun over the course of three days. We got the chance to chat with Francesca Curran, who plays "Skinhead" Helen, and she has some choice words to describe the new episodes: violent, intense, wild, and, above all, incredible. Before you sit down to binge the new season, read up on everything Curran teased!

POPSUGAR: Will we see the white supremacists band together with any other groups this season?

Francesca Curran: We're a very limited group. If you don't fit our standards, if you don't fit our beliefs - and especially if you're not white - it's going to be really difficult to try to make an alliance with us. We've seen some attempts throughout season four and five of other groups trying to be on our good side, since we do tend to be more aggressive and violent. In season five, we do get to venture out of those boundaries . . . It's the white girls against everyone else. You see the Latinas group up with the black girls, and you see these groups come together. Season five is so intense and there's so much going on. It's all the women against the rest of the prison system. I do think that we are forced to get out of our comfort zone and interact with some of the other groups . . . But we are still crazy, paranoid freaks.

PS: I heard that not only do you have a pretty gnarly storyline this season, but you also took combat training.

FC: Yeah, we did combat training, and it was just the craziest experience because we have this amazing guy, Greg, and we have a whole team of guys that come in and show us how to do these crazy flips and wall kicks and some of the stuff we do, we'll get professional stunt people in. But the fun part for me this season was while some of the other girls were having stunt people do it, they, for some reason, had a crazy sense of faith in me. And they were like, "Hey, do you think you can handle this?" And being the crazy person that I am, I was like, "Absolutely." So it did result in some bruising and stuff, but nothing serious. But I got to do some pretty wild kicks, flips, locker crushes, all sorts of stuff. It was an ego boost for me, coming home, and being like, "Yeah, I do my own stunts."

PS: I spoke to Kate Mulgrew last week and she was saying that we might get a little more backstory, but it's mostly set in the present this season. Are we ever going to get to see Helen's backstory?

FC: So for season five, we see snippets of background information. Just in this season, I'm sure that you've heard that it takes place in three days. So it's a really quick, action-packed snippet. The writers packed a lot of information into so little time . . . I still don't know why I'm in prison. But we do find out a little bit about me, and how even though I am such an aggressive character, and even though I am a white supremacist and have a lot of extremist beliefs and everything, I do have a comedic side, a softer side. It makes you remember that even with villains, even with these characters in the show that are obviously such bad people that have had such horrible experience in their lives that have led them to prison, there is still a human being at the core. I get to do some really hilarious stuff this season amidst some really dark things.

PS: Is there anything else you can tease about the upcoming season?

FC: I just think Orange does such an amazing job with mirroring events in real life, and that's partially why it's gotten so much attention in the media and had such an amazing following. With Poussey last season we saw the Black Lives Matter movement mirroring real life. You know how they say art imitates life? They did such a spot-on job with that. With the political climate right now, all I can say is it's a good season to be a Nazi. I know that sounds bizarre. But for us, we're given so much incredible material, and they really did an amazing job of taking current events, taking this talk that's been so recently brought up with white supremacy and whatnot, and making it into how it fits into our prison system. You're going to see a lot of high emotion. You're going to see a lot of violence. You're going to see a lot of the relationship between COs and prisoners. You're going to see us going after justice and fighting for Poussey's legacy. And it's extremely intense. That's about all I can say, but you'll see what I'm saying.

vendredi 9 juin 2017