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Taylor Schilling: Orange Is The New Clown

Taylor Schilling explains why after seven seasons on Orange Is the New Black, she's going to clown school, and exploring Juggalo culture in her latest film Family.
<em>Ask Me Another</em> host Ophira Eisenberg chats with Taylor Schilling at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

What's your next move after starring in seven seasons of a hit television show? If you're Taylor Schilling, star of , you go to clown class. "I'm constantly like, 'How can I be better?' And so clowning is, it's really beautiful, it's like going back to complete innocence," the actor told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. "And there's something about the lack of artifice and the bold, physical choices that it

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