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Creator Jenji Kohan Talks ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Her Research Into Prison Life, and Graphic Sex Scenes Jul 7th 2013, 19:04, by Christina Radish From Emmy Award-winner Jenji Kohan, creator of the hit comedy series Weeds, comes the 13-episode dramedy, Orange is the New Black, available through Netflix on July 11th.  Based on the popular memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, the series stars Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, an engaged Brooklynite whose decade-old relationship with international drug-runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and year-long detention in federal prison.  Piper trades her comfortable New York life with her fiancé (Jason Biggs) for an orange prison jumpsuit, and is quickly forced to question everything she knows while she serves her time, surrounded by an eccentric and outspoken group of inmates. During both a roundtable interview at the show's press day and a conference call to promote the series, show creator Jenji Kohan talked about why she wanted to do this project at Netflix, why the book appealed to her, how much research she did into prison life, getting to explore so many different types of women, why she wanted to include humor in the story, the graphic sex scenes, how Jodie Foster ended up directing an episode, the Regina Spektor theme song, her reaction to already being picked up for Season 2, and the other shows she's currently developing, including a pilot at HBO.  Check out what she had to say after the jump. Question:  Coming from Showtime, where you didn't have any network restrictions, what made you decide to go to Netflix with this series? JENJI KOHAN:  Well, I spent a lot of time ... Media files: jenji kohan orange is the new black slice jenji kohan orange is the new black orange is the new black poster taylor-schilling-orange-is-the-new-black orange-is-the-new-black-taylor-schilling-jason-biggs orange-is-the-new-black-laura-prepon-natasha-lyonne orange-is-the-new-black-taylor-schilling orange-is-the-new-black-taylor-schilling-natasha-lyonne orange-is-the-new-black-taylor-schilling

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