Laverne Cox: Life, Love and Laverne

Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa

SiriusXM Podcasts and Poppy Media, LLC

Celebrity, Comedy, Tv & Film, Kelly Ripa, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Kellyripa, Kelly

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The one and only, Laverne Cox sits down with Kelly in this unfiltered conversation to discuss family, fame and being fabulous. Laverne bravely takes us behind the scenes of her family, from her brother's unyielding love to her mother's denial and acceptance. Laverne discusses her early beginning's at New York's famed coffee shop and how letting a guy know she was transgender was not always the easiest task. Laverne tells us about being directed by Jodie Foster on Orange is the New Black and working with the legend, the late, Norman Lear on her new show Clean Slate.

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0:00.0	As a kid, like I rehearsed for the life that I'm living now.
0:04.3	I created this like fabulous cover.
0:07.0	And when I started serious acting training, I had to break through all that to get to the truth.
0:12.0	But I didn't let myself be vulnerable.
0:14.0	And I was just going around like, I was fabulous.
0:17.0	Somebody got to cue me or do I cue myself?
0:19.0	Cheap yourself.
0:20.0	Okay.
0:24.2	Hey, everybody.
0:27.6	We're back with another episode of Let's Talk Off Camera, so let's get talking.
0:30.9	Stand back.
0:36.9	Today's guest is an Emmy Award winning producer, actress, Equal Rights Advocate, and transgender trailblazer. That's right, Laverne
0:40.5	Cox, and I mean Lavern Cox is here. It's a big booking. Huge. We loved her in everything
0:47.2	she's done, including Orange is the New Black, inventing Anna, the Rocky Horror Picture Show,
0:53.3	the documentary disclosure. She even rocked it as the
0:56.7	chess piece in this season's Masked Singer. She was good. She performed a share song I saw.
1:03.6	She did good job. Yeah. I need to like start dialing into that show. I watched the episode of it a while
1:07.5	ago. But while we wait for her to join Albert and Jan, give me this story.
1:13.0	What is going on with you to?
1:14.6	You're a bone to pick with Lauren.
1:16.2	Yeah, what's your bone?
1:17.1	Lauren is here.
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