In Season 2 of Netflix’s hit prison series, Danielle Brooks played a very different version of the dancing, Harry Potter -loving Taystee that fans had come to love — and that was all thanks to the introduction of Vee. The actress breaks down the complex mother-daughter relationship for BuzzFeed. SPOILER ALERT!
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Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson has been one of the most outgoing inmates walking the halls of Litchfield Penitentiary on Netflix's hit series Orange Is the New Black. But when her surrogate mom, Vee (Lorraine Toussaint), joined her behind bars in Season 2, Taystee went through some major changes (and not just braiding her curls into cornrows). Taystee's once boisterous demeanor was silenced and her closest relationships, particularly with Poussey (Samira Wiley), were destroyed.
The carefree character, who, in Season 1, would only get upset over a King Cone falling on the floor, was now quivering in fear and caving to the strong hand of a bully, acting selfishly, causing trouble, and sometimes behaving overly cocky. Taystee's behavior changed drastically, almost instantaneously with the bite of some Funfetti cake, and viewers saw a side of her that didn't seem to exist before.
Even the actress behind Taystee, 23-year-old Danielle Brooks, who landed the role on Orange Is the New Black straight out of Juilliard, couldn't believe what became of the effervescent fan favorite. "Taystee goes on one of the biggest journeys from Season 1 to Season 2," Brooks told BuzzFeed via phone, just days after the season was released on Netflix. "I think, for me, it starts with the last conversation she had with Poussey in Season 1 when they were in the library when Taystee returns [to Litchfield]."
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