orange is the new black fans do we have any idea who is one of the hair stylists
in the prison just the hair styling gel coated in need and she'll burn the shit
out of your couch holding the script so we are gonna show a clip from the show
in just a minute but before we get to that how much he'll present are you in
the writers room or not at all
total G&G we were doing a panel with the kind of like this happen there very
still brilliant and the engines we had a very strong vision and I think what she
has said is that she option of our voices in her head with the intent in
sushi after you know after a season is even after several episodes that she
starts to write for the pacific actors in their characters so there is peace
but I I have no I have no say over where the storyline will go or what they're
going to going to do with their butts and they're inspired by I think the
actors themselves and
would be really be a genuine are brilliant brilliant writers Sophia
always intended to be a transgender character from my understanding get the
paper crewmen who wrote the book that are shared with based on when she was
incarcerated she did she was incarcerated with a trans woman who was
an American instill in the book if you've read the book I think she's the
kitchen internet in the book and so she was always redness trans and to G&G
engine due to credit they wanted to hire a transportation to play the part and
Here I am thank God when people meet you do they think that there's a heart of
Sofia in you that they sort of see that character that so closely identified
probably still i mean i understand if anything people come up to me in this
union are you still feel like know though does that ever I love this but I
love about this character though is that there's so many unexpected things that
happen if I think that's that's just goes for all the characters on the show
the base of the back stories that sort of dramatic device that jim is really
gives this debt
these women are that we probably wouldn't get otherwise and get him that
in the present is very different than soup with a mother and a wife and giving
the player that it's been really
wonderful and fun for me tell me about three Cici the film 3d theories so
excited we're in like the way you like in the intent like post-production for
free CD which is very intense BCC is a documentary that I am executive
producing about a young woman named Cece McDonald who is an african-american
transgender woman who spent 19 month in men's prison in the Minister of poor
defending herself against a racist in terms of attack that happened on June 30
2011 just just thinking about you know talking about changing him had not
survived by the SEC is a survivor and her her gift for survival with what the
prison sentence and what is we we got Joan Jett Gareth
director and co-producer on this we got the idea to do this and we admit these
things we didn't know how easy would be on camera is Dec them using on camera i
mean so so much of wet in the editing process when i when I'm looking at
footage and just like this young woman ether charismatic and so articulating
and she's just a great subject of a documentary we got very very lucky that
she's like so amazing but in the in the documentary we are looking at her story
in the intricacies of that and we're trying to sort of unpacked the culture
of violence against trans women of color specifically there's an amazing
interview with easy and intuitive which is legendary and it's a labor of love
and eliminate issues further questions that you're just tired of answering I
just don't want to answer these questions about this topic anymore
please don't ask me again about this stuff because I'm over it absolutely but
it's with the thing about that is that different people are coming to this
different different information and so learning doesn't always happen in the
moment into being repetitive about some things we don't get past Janet margarita
billion it several years ago but how do we get past chance when it was you know
we have conversations with him about chance people and so I tried to get
those questions and also try to take it to the next level of conversation so
yeah this this surgery narrative the transition narrative I'm over it really
really over it I think that people don't think that our lives exist after we
transition I think we're starting to see more and more I think there's there's
been a proliferation of trans near to the media now the team that there's life
after you know just like to shoot in the Indian and they have happily ever after
that if that were the case then beat you
that's now happened to be ignored again ever want to sit in the Starbucks with
your friend pacino and just have nobody come up to you anymore or is everyone to
be ignored ok good professionally I think of as to what you have work
acknowledged having some sort of value but definitely I'm very clear that what
I do as an actress is work and every time I leave my apartment I am NOT
working every time I leave my apartment is it's not an opportunity for me to
engage with the public and that had to learn to set boundaries around and I
have an intense desire to make everyone happy and I understand that when I had
to set boundaries to take care of myself that I might not make everyone happy and
so I'm getting better at getting better at not being like that when I say no to
photo lake I'll do it because they know I have to set boundaries was the second
you get to one photo then you know when he will start and end up until bad about
it and you know but it is what it is
I just know that I K how draining it is to always be there for other people and
that I have to have something for myself and I have to take your questions from
the audience of you could start over here please so if there's anything you
could say to the other generation and the people as soon as I workers about
transitioning more transfers in the popular media all the attention that's
drawn to it
wait wait what strikes me about the cultural moment that they're transferred
for having in the media in terms of visibility is that we're having really
unprecedented chance visibility in the media right now and lets the environment
we are being reported murdered in any other time in history
think that is the best time to time chance those in America now so I wish
from me that juxtaposition is really important and when I talk about we talk
about trans people having intersectional Linds is really important identified and
talking about gender
think without talking about class and raised for not getting a full picture I
would I would and then in terms of transitioning I think that it's related
to support finding if you have one person who loved and reports you for who
you are then hold on to the prison life not only codependent way
but hold on to that person and and in their support out there know that you're
not alone and you can get the point on I depending on your community there might
be there the LGBT Center in your hometown gonna get the point that