The Cast of the Netflix Series Orange Is the New Black

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Michael Schulman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He recently wrote about the cast of the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. Kimiko Glenn, who played Brooke Soso, one of the inmates, spoke to him while he was on strike. She said she had been talking with her cast mates in the years since the show aired.

The actors are officially on strike. Vox senior correspondent and critic Alissa Wilkinson breaks down what SAG-AFTRA is afta, and the New Yorker’s Michael Schulman explains how one of Netflix’s first original shows was an early warning sign.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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