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ENTITY reports on Orange Is The New Black Cast.

The “Orange Is The New Black” cast has been entertaining us with their antics for five seasons now.

And though there are numerous questions that still need to be answered about the last episode’s surprise, we’re more interested in the people behind the characters.

Who are they, really?

Well, we did some digging and found these interesting five facts to share with you.

1 Uzo Aduba almost quit acting before she signed on to be an “Orange Is New Black” cast member.

ENTITY reports on the orange is the new black cast.

In an interview with Deadline, the actress who plays “Crazy Eyes” on OITNB said that she was on her way to quitting until she received a phone call.

“I was crying on the subway all the way home, and not like, loud, audible crying, but the tears, the ones where you just can’t stop them from coming down your face. I just couldn’t stop it. I was sitting on the train, and I said to myself, ‘This is it, I’m done,'” she shared. “Then, 45 minutes later, I got home and I got a phone call. I’ll never forget it for my entire life. I could be 98, and my grandkids can be like, ‘Grandma, when did you get ‘Orange is the New Black?’ and I’ll say, “5.43 pm. September 14.”

We’re thankful you didn’t quit, Uzo! You bring Crazy Eyes to life and we love you for it.

2 Jackie Cruz aka Flaca locked lips with a Kardashian.

ENTITY reports on the orange is the new black cast.

On the E! show “Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami,” Jackie Cruz appeared to be locking lips with the Kourtney. As scandalous as this is, she doesn’t care much for it and told Wetpaint that she’s focusing on other things these days.

“It was in 2009, so it was a long time ago, I just kissed a girl, whatever,” she said. “It was a long time ago. Now I’m focusing more on my music and my acting and we’re really not in touch anymore. She’s doing her thing, I’m doing my thing.”

3 Jessica Pimentel is the lead singer of her own heavy metal band.

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Pimental, who plays Maria Ruiz, on OITNB is the frontman to the heavy metal group Alekhine’s Gun.

She told Rolling Stone that she fell in love with heavy metal when she met “Type O Negative” frontman Peter Steele.

“He was pale as a ghost, and he’d be dressed in all green, with long, jet-black hair. One day, he said in the heaviest New York accent I ever heard in my life, ‘Shouldn’t you be in school? What are you listening to, kid?'” she said. “I’m like, ‘King Diamond and the Cro-Mags.’ He’s like, ‘Have you ever heard of Carnivore? Come back tomorrow. I’ll give you a mix.'”

4 Laverne Cox’s twin brother plays her pre-transition character in OITNB.

Laverne Cox, who plays Sophia Burset on the Netflix series, said that director Jodie Foster didn’t think she was manly enough to play her character pre-transition.

“I was like, ‘I have to butch it up,’ because I don’t think Jodie believed that I could pull this off. I go to Jodie and she looks at me and she’s like, ‘We’re gonna have to hire someone,’ she said,” Cox told the Huffington Post. “Jodie Foster didn’t think I looked masculine enough to play a guy.”

So, when the casting director of the show found out that Cox had a twin she encouraged him to step up and play the part. “Our casting director found out that I have a twin brother, and she insisted that he should audition for the role. He auditioned, and he got the part,” she added.

5 Kate Mulgrew is a ‘Star Trek’ veteran.

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Mulgrew, who plays Red, on OITNB shared with an audience at the Denver Comic Con that she faced much scrutiny as a female captain on “Star trek.” But she refuse to back down.

And it paid off because a certain powerful figure noticed her at the time.

“Something in me rose up at the very thought that after Miss Bujold defected, that I would fail and then they would bring back another man. I thought, ‘No, no, no we can’t have this. We simply cannot, we must go forward.’ And so we did,” Mulgrew said. “And guess who had me to the White House after the end of the first season? A woman by the name of Hillary Clinton.”

5 Matt McGorry used to be a trainer and bodybuilder.

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Matt McGorry, who plays John Bennett on the show, used to compete as a bodybuilder. He said that he had to stop though because he could not balance acting and body building.

“I took a good look at things and realized I couldn’t pursue acting on top of this, and I was always interested in acting. But training consumed my life: I was cooking all my own meals, carrying my Tupperware everywhere with me,” McGorry told Men’s Fitness. “It takes a lot of discipline and creates a solitary lifestyle – at least it did for me. It wasn’t a lifestyle I could continue, so I stopped.”

And he didn’t even ease off of working out. He just completely dropped it. According to his interview, he didn’t do any sort of working out years after that. And he hasn’t cooked since.

“I am a very black and white person like that. Because I was so attached to my numbers from powerlifting, it was easier to take a big step away, so that as I was getting weaker I didn’t have to judge myself based on these same standards,” he added.

Well, did you learn something new?

If you have any other fun facts about the cast members, let us know in the comments below!

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