Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba in O, The Oprah Magazine’s July Issue

Orange is the New Black is back! We had to wait a whole year. If you’re like me you were done with the season pretty quick and now we have to wait another year.

With the show comes all the “Crazy” characters. Recently Uzo Aduba, “Crazy Eyes” sat down with O Magazine and we have some of the highlights.

Quotes:
Best Guilty Pleasure:
“The Real Housewives franchise.  I love that series, and I have no shame.”

Best Role Model
“It probably seems clichéd to say this in O, but – Oprah!  She’s my hero.  When I was a kid, there weren’t many people who looked like me on television, and there she was, a real person showing us all how to live with grace, humility, and strength.”

Best Advice:
“When I moved from Boston to New York City after college, my mom, who’s from Nigeria, drove me to the train station.  She turned off the car and said, ‘Uzo, just work hard.  I’ve never heard of nothing coming from hard work.’  It’s a message that resonates in my bones.”

Best OITNB Tradition:
“Singing.  We’re always making up songs or reciting our lines to gospel and R&B melodies.  Sometimes the crew has to say, ‘Ladies! It’s time to get back to work!’ But we’re too busy harmonizing ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ in our prison jumpsuits.”