Taylor Schilling might look like a conventional actress, but looks can be deceiving!
The actress opened up to Net-a-Porter’s The EDIT about her unconventional childhood and how it led her to become the “rogue” person she is today. Here’s a taste:
On her parents’ tumultuous divorce: “I think I was just born rogue,” she tells the magazine. “My parents did not have a good relationship. There was no sense of, ‘This is where you belong. This is how you have a friend over for a tea party. This is how you go to a dance.’ It was chaotic. I thought, well, I might as well go off-map.”
On leaving NYU: “I’m not afraid of Chekhov or Shakespeare. But I thought, ‘How much more theory can we talk about?’ I had to spread my wings.”
On her OITNB role: “There are expectations people have of blond-haired, blue-eyed girls, and that’s to be good. That’s how Piper grew up. She was meant to follow the rules: marry a man, have a baby and a business that her mother approves of,” she says. “[But] the center could not hold. And now she’s scrambling to put the pieces back together to find out who she is, and it doesn’t fit in the mold.”
Read more of the interview HERE!
Photos: The Edit
