Uzo Aduba has seen the Bantu knot-wearing, eyeball-bulging fan favorite go from territorial would-be lover to dangerously devoted daughter on the hit Netflix series. She talks to BuzzFeed about Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren’s shocking second season arc. Warning: Season 2 spoilers ahead!
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Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren (Uzo Aduba) just wants to be seen. And in the second season of Netflix's hit series Orange is the New Black someone's eyes are finally opened to the committed, loving person she's capable of being. The only problem is that person also knows how to manipulate that devotion and adoration like no other: newcomer Vee (Lorraine Toussaint), who ends up hurting Suzanne like no one ever has either.
"This is a woman who loves deeply and will love at all costs and she will do everything in her power to defend and protect the one she loves," said Aduba, sitting in an Austin, Texas, hotel bar in a large black leather chair that envelops her. "You saw that in the cafeteria scene with the pie. You saw it with her peeing on the floor. So I already knew that that's what this person will do, how far she will go for love. Then in the second season, I was able to see the true scope of how far she would go. It's not just throwing pie, it's not just writing poems, it's not just peeing on the floor. There's another side of it: She will fight for love; she may kill for it. And she's willing to sacrifice even those people whom she has loved before."
The Massachusetts-raised actress, who had done mostly theater before she was cast on Jenji Kohan's Orange is the New Black, has helped shape who Suzanne has become over the course of the show's 26 episodes, from her bulging eyes and childlike mannerisms to the Bantu knots that have become so closely associated with the character. Aduba wore the tightly wound hairstyle to her audition in 2012 and it inspired not only Suzanne's most recognizable feature in Season 1 (besides the territorial urination, of course), but important metaphors for her character as well.
Mere minutes after Aduba recalled the audition, Orange is the New Black casting director Jennifer Euston, who was also attending the ATX Television Festival like Aduba, came over and hugged the actress delicately so as not to ruin her carefully coiffed curls and pressed-to-perfection dress. "She's the best. You know that, right?" Euston said. "This is my everything," Aduba added wistfully with a smile that channeled her character's lighter moments. "She changed my life by bringing me into that room." "You did it all, baby," Euston added.
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