[MUSIC - JAMIE N. COMMONS AND X AMBASSADORS, "JUNGLE"]

SAM: I like what you've done with the place.

PIPER: Sadly, it's starting to feel like home in here.

CRAZY EYES: Three, two, one, go!

[CHEER]

BROOKE: This is not how I imagined prison to be at all.

CINDY: [SINGING] Oh!

TIFFANY AND PIPER: Yay!

GALINA: A woman I knew a long time ago

came back in yesterday.

CRAZY EYES: Ooh.

VEE: I know.

CRAZY EYES: Who are you?

VEE: I'm Vee.

ROSA: You've got something to say to me?

PIPER: This place is bull--

SISTER INGALLS: There's a storm coming.

BOTH: What!

VEE: Boom, boom, boom!

BIG BOO: Ooh!

PIPER: I am lone wolf.

And a vicious one.

Don't make me rip your throat out.

CINDY: That's what I'm talking about!

CHELSEY KANTOR: Hi, everyone.

I'm Chelsey Kantor from the Google+ team.

And I'm here with three of the amazing cast members

from the recently Critic Choice-nominated for Best

Comedy Series, "Orange is the New Black."

Let's give it up.

NATASHA LYONNE: Thank you.

UZO ADOBA: Thank you.

CHELSEY KANTOR: Starting on the end,

we have the lovely Miss Uzo Adoba, Suzanne "Crazy Eyes"

Warren.

And in the middle, we have Natasha Lyonne, Miss Nicky

Nichols.

And to my right, the one and only Yael Stone, Morello.

So I'm going to kick it ff here with a few questions for each

of you, and then a few for the group.

And then we'll open it up to people

in the room that have burning questions they want answered.

But I'm going to start with you.

And first congrats on your nomination for the Critics

Choice Award for what?

Featured Comedic Performer in a Series.

UZO ADOBA: Yes.

CHELSEY KANTOR: Did you know you were in a comedy series?

UZO ADOBA: Good question.

You know, no-- yeah, I think there was this great balance

that Jenji-- Jenji Kohan who created our show--

has managed to keep with the show.

And I personally feel that in order for the world of comedy,

as I've heard Natasha say and countless others say,

that in order for that world to really exist,

you have to balance it well with the drama.

And the circumstance of where we are, that in itself

helps to set the tone of the drama.

But you know, tampons in a McMuffin are funny.

And peeing on the floor is funny.

NATASHA LYONNE: And tragic.

UZO ADOBA: And tragic.

Exactly.

It's a balance there.

CHELSEY KANTOR: Tragically funny.

UZO ADOBA: That's right.

It's tragically funny.

That's exactly right.

CHELSEY KANTOR: So the world got to know you as Crazy Eyes,

but I first knew you through "Godspell" on Broadway .

And then because of that, on "Project Runway All Stars."

So tell me about the transition from Broadway

and fashion to prison.

UZO ADOBA: Well, there is a very clear fashion statement

in prison.

And it is that there is none.

No, but even in the fashion though,

Jenn Rogien, who's our costume designer,

does a really amazing job with something

that's so uniform and singular and finding unique touches

and nuances when you look at everyone's costume,

to display an individuality and personality within that.

But I think it's really interesting whether it's

Poussey with the sweatshirt, or if you

have my own costume with the thumbs,

or Nicky with the rolled-up sleeves,

everybody has a touch of their outer self appearing

in their inner prison self, which is kind of cool.

But going from theater to television,

I thought it was going to be this massive leap of a world

that I didn't understand, just because

of the technical elements of the medium.

But what I really learned doing the show

was that good stories are good stories.

If the story is good, my job as the actor is made pretty easy.

And thankfully, the writers on our show

have made my job easier with their words

and have just been so phenomenally brilliant

at crafting a story that I could understand whether it's

on a stage of a theater or on a sound stage of a studio.

CHELSEY KANTOR: So I heard a story

that you went in to audition for another part,

but then they offered you Crazy Eyes.

So can you tell us one, what part

that was, and what about your audition, what they saw in you

made you perfect for Miss Suzanne Warren?

UZO ADOBA: So sorry.

That's a good question that I too would like the answer for.

I went in originally, I went in and I auditioned

for the role of Janae, who's played brilliantly

by Vicky Jeudy on our show.

She's done a phenomenal job with it, and it's completely right

and makes sense for it.

I went and I read for that part, and then I got a phone call

from my representation.

And they said, we have really great news for you.

I said, OK, what?

What is it?

And they said, you remember that audition

you went on for "Orange is the New Black" this summer?

I said, yes, absolutely.

Because I remember reading that script

and thinking to myself of the things

that I had read that summer, wow, that was really good.

I would love if I could be a part of something like that.

That would be great.

And then continued on.

So when I got the call, and they said,

you remember that audition you went on for "Orange

is the New Black" this summer?

I said, yes!

Totally.

I absolutely remember.

They said, well, you didn't get it.

I said, OK, what's the good news that you--

you said there was good news?

And they said, but they'd like to offer you another part.

And I said, amazing!

What's the other part?

And they were like Crazy Eyes.

And I was still like, um, chicken and waffles,

like I don't know what that means, you know,

like what is that?

But when I read the script, it really

did feel like the right fit.

That just felt right.

CHELSEY KANTOR: So what about her was already on the page,

and what do you think you brought to that character?

UZO ADOBA: What was already on the page?

I think, definitely the essence of her truest essence,

which for me, I think, is the innocence,

and her want and need to give and get love

at it's fullest, was certainly there.

There's a line in the second episode of the script when

they're introducing Crazy Eyes.

Piper's coming into the cafeteria in

and I'm paraphrasing it now, It was written by Marco Ramirez,

but she's walking into the cafeteria

and she's looking for a place to sit.

And then she looks right and there sitting

there is-- turn the page-- Crazy Eyes.

And he had described her as someone

who is innocent like a child, except children aren't scary.

[LAUGHTER]

And I thought that felt like the key

to the door that might open this character,

because someone who is innocent like a child,

to me meant that somebody who operates out

of impulse, who operates, who acts and then thinks.

Children don't have agendas.

They're not calculating.

They're not trying to do something for gai.

They're just doing it for the purity of it.

That animalistic survival instinct of quality

within them.

So that was something.

But then whatever it is that she's

doing though is not responded to with the same affection

that it is when it is a child is very clear.

And so I just started having this vision

of that sort of-- she's a [INAUDIBLE] adult woman

with a sledgehammer and a pacifier.

That picture really came to my brain, I said,

but that made sense to me.

But somebody who's just trying to give and get

love-- it felt like a love story.

That's all I could see when I was reading it.

I said, of this is somebody in the deepest

and most honest pursuit of love.

CHELSEY KANTOR: What do you learn about her

in Season Two that you didn't know is Season One.

UZO ADOBA: Hmm.

CHELSEY KANTOR: And you can be as

specific or vague as you want.

UZO ADOBA: I will choose the vague route.

No.

What did I learned about her in Season Two

that I didn't know about her in Season One?

How far she'll go for love.

I think I asked the question of myself,

because when we're doing Season One,

I was really interested in the experiment of answering

how far does someone go for love.

Would someone go for love.

In Season Two, I have a piece or certainly

a scope of that answer.

CHELSEY KANTOR: Hmm.

Nice, little tease.

[LAUGHTER]

So one of the many things that makes this show so viral role

and shareable is its quotable nature.

And the one liners and the scenes and memes

that they spawn go across the web.

So I'd love to know what your favorite Crazy Eyes quotable

quote is from Season One.

And if you can, one of your favorites from Season Two.

So I know my favorite from Season One.

UZO ADOBA: OK.

Your favorite?

CHELSEY KANTOR: I know my favorite,

but I'd like to know yours.

UZO ADOBA: OK, my favorite from Season One, my favorite quote,

I mean, how can you not love "I threw my pie for you."

I just enjoy saying that.

That's what Crazy Eyes says, but I

have some pretty favorite lines.

My personal favorite lines are actually not the lines

that I say.

I actually really love the line that Sophia, played by Laverne

Cox, says "please is for hoes and Oliver Twist."

I don't know why I think that's hilarious.

Every single time I hear it, I think it's hilarious.

I just think it's hilarious every time I hear it.

CHELSEY KANTOR: I think we'd all like to hear a little (SINGING)

"Chocolate and vanilla--

CHELSEY & UZO: Swirl, swirl.

CHELSEY KANTOR: Thank you.

UZO ADOBA: You're welcome.

CHELSEY KANTOR: And from Season Two, is there a favorite yet?

UZO ADOBA: From Season Two?

Do I have a favorite line from Season Two?

NATASHA LYONNE: Be careful now.

UZO ADOBA: I know.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

I really like line "Three, two, one, go."

[LAUGHTER]

With no tone put behind it, so you don't know--

CHELSEY KANTOR: I have no idea.

UZO ADOBA: I could be like, three, two, one, go?

Three, two, one, go!

Like it could mean anything.

Yeah.

Three, two one, go.

CHELSEY KANTOR: Thank you for that, at least.

UZO ADOBA: You're welcome.

CHELSEY KANTOR: This small piece.