The season gets so dark near the end but the early episodes are really funny, even though you’re dealing with a dead body. The characters are so different but they understand each other. They gave us more to do together and it just worked so well. It was this new cool happening, the kinetic energy between us. We just went, “How is this so funny and so horrible?” work really well together. I think even episode one when I came in and saved Alex - just our Abbott and Costello, straight man-funny man gig, it threw all of us - me, Laura, everyone - off guard. Was there a certain point when you realized how much she would grow this season? If you’re on ABC they’re gonna say, “here’s your five year contract,” or “you’re gonna be in 13 episodes.” It’s a whole other business model where they say, “Do you want to be on the show this week?” and I’d say, “Yeah.” I had no idea what was coming. It’s not all planned out, like “you’re Thomas Jefferson.” It evolves.ĭid you know at the start of season four how deeply they would get into Lolly? Or did you just get the first script and see she’d kill somebody? Every week it’s like they learn more and we learn more, we learn together. It’s a really cool dance, how they play into your strengths and surprise the s- out of you.
What they’re really good at is, they’ll write an episode and then they watch and see what you do with it, and then they move in that direction. I couldn’t come back until the next year.Īnd how much did Lolly change when you returned in season three? Looking back at that season two episode it doesn’t seem like they’d quite figured her out yet.
We were halfway through the day and I was like, “Why haven’t these people asked me to become a regular yet? It’s lunchtime, what’s up?” I went to a producer and said, “I’d like to come back, what’s going on?” They said, “We shot out of order.” They shot the first episode last that season. I went and did that scene on the airplane. I went upstairs and we talked, a couple months later they called and said, “We have this part.” I called my manager and said, “I need you to call Jen Euston and tell her I’m downstairs.” She said, “You want me to call the woman who cast ‘Girls’ and ‘Orange’ and tell her you’re downstairs?” I said, “Yes!” So she called her and Jen was like, “Yeah, f- yeah, send her up!” These people are in their 30s, they grew up watching “League of Their Own,” “Point Break” and “Tank Girl.” Even if she doesn’t want me on the show, she’ll be curious to find out what the hell Lori Petty wants. I was in New York at the time at Blue Ribbon, a great restaurant, and I went on IMDb to look up the casting office and it was across the street from Blue Ribbon. I saw the show and was like, “What the hell?” I’ve learned a closed mouth doesn’t get fed, you have to ask for what you want. What happened was, I saw the show and I was like, “Why am I not on this show?” I joined SAG in 1985. Was it always the plan to gradually make her a more important part of the show? Lolly was only in the premiere of season two and then eight episodes of both season three and four. She spoke with Variety about how she joined the show, finding the humor in Lolly’s eccentric behavior, and whether or not “Orange” fans will see her again. “It’s so funny, to be part of a cultural touchstone right now. “It’s been so much fun in act four of my life to be attacked by 10-year-olds wanting selfies, it’s just hysterical,” Petty says. Joining “Orange” has reenergized the veteran actress. Sadly, it wasn’t, and when the truth is revealed Healy is forced to escort Lolly to psychiatric prison in one of the season’s most harrowing scenes. Harney), who convinces her that it was all in her head. This season, Lolly saves Alex’s life by knocking out the prison guard who turned out to be an undercover assassin, helps Alex bury the body, and later bonds with Healy (Michael J. As it turned out Lolly was simply following the voices in her head - a paranoid schizophrenic, Lolly is convinced all government agencies are united in a conspiracy to kill her. Lori Petty’s Lolly Whitehill is such a central part of “Orange Is the New Black” season 4, that it’s easy to forget she hasn’t been there all along.Īfter a brief guest turn in the second season premiere (when Piper was on the plane to Chicago), Lolly returned last season to spook Alex (Laura Prepon), who thought she was sent to kill her.
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