Hey y'all from NPR, it's been a minute.

I'm Sam Sanders, it's Tuesday and I've got a conversation for you.

This week I'm talking with Uso Aduba, the Emmy award-winning actress.

Uso plays Suzanne Crazy Eyes Warren.

Perhaps my favorite character on the Netflix show Orange is the new black.

Crazy Eyes is the kind of character that you cannot forget.

The kind of character you find yourself thinking about and wondering about long after the show

is done.

This role is a stark portrayal of the realities of mental illness and how someone with mental

illness survives prison.

But it's also full of these really big universal themes that we all experience, like love,

and this idea that all of us contain multitudes and can be more than one thing at once.

Uso describes Crazy Eyes as a woman who wields, quote, a sledgehammer and a pacifier all

at the same time.

Are you a real woman, Chapman?

A real girl woman?

I'm not like all these other girls around here.

I need a real woman.

I'm sure that you'll find one.

I wrote a poem, you know what I hear?

You know, that's fine.

Before I met you, the sun was like a yellow grate.

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