![]() ![]() “When something like that happens, it makes people really reevaluate,” she says. Prepon says the Piscatella incident - which ultimately ended with the guard being shot and killed by one of his own riot men - shifted things for the tumultuous twosome. They saw what happened to Red and Alex’s arm is broken and all these things, and they realize: Life is short, I love this person, let’s just do this.” “They just went through this insane thing where they almost died. “When you look at what they just went through with Piscatella, it puts things into perspective,” says Prepon, who also directed the torture episode. They survived - Alex with a broken arm and Piper, a newfound outlook. Only hours earlier in Litchfield time, both Piper and Alex, bound and gagged in the shower curtains they were kidnapped in, survived a near-death experience when Piscatella (Brad William Henke) tortured Red (Kate Mulgrew) and threatened their collective existence from inside a janitor’s closet. 'Orange Is the New Black's' Laura Prepon on Alex's Harrowing Season 4 Experience: "She Really Needs Piper" So when that stuff comes back into play, for me, it focuses the show on its center and it makes it easy to do my job.” To have such a specific thing that you want and that you’re going after, as an actor, is just candy. ![]() ![]() “That’s what was so exciting about the show from the very beginning. “It always feels so good and so gratifying to be able to fill in parts of Piper and Alex’s timeline,” Schilling tells The Hollywood Reporter. I miss you,” she says in the rambling voicemail, which upon listening causes Alex to kick out her girlfriend. “How are you still in my brain? Do you miss me? Probably not. When Larry gets his own tattoo, of the Kool-Aid Man, Piper is reminded of Alex and drunk dials her ex later that night. The prior seasons have already clued viewers into what happened in between these two memories, but seeing Alex express a mix of anger, love and regret over “ruining Piper’s life” by sending her to Litchfield was a new shade of black on the drug-smuggling nomad.Īnd Alex wasn’t the only one to have regrets.Įnter a cameo from Jason Biggs, who returned to play Piper’s boyfriend Larry Bloom. Now her ex-girlfriend, Alex admits that Piper broke her heart. Years later, Alex tells a stranger that her “Love is pain” inking was in response to Piper’s beauty fish: Love is pain, not beauty. Rewinding to when Piper was still following Alex all over the world, viewers see her ink herself with a fish tattoo signifying beauty for Alex. The episode, titled “Tattoo You,” delivered two parallel flashbacks for the pair, providing insight into why Alex ended up sending Piper to jail in the first place. ![]() In the penultimate episode of the new season, Piper proposed - and Alex said, “Yes.” At the start of last season, Laura Prepon had this to say about her Alex Vause and Piper Chapman ( Taylor Schilling): “Anybody would look at that relationship and think: ‘Alex needs to get as far away from Piper as possible, and maybe vice versa.'”Īmid its ever-expanding ensemble of characters, the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black (currently streaming on Netflix) found its way back to the relationship that has been at the heart of Jenji Kohan’s prison dramedy since season one. ![]()
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