![]() “It’s so embarrassing! I feel uncomfortable sharing myself for the sake of it.” On Pride weekend last year, when Schilling posted an Instagram story about her girlfriend, the artist Emily Ritz, headlines exclaimed that she had “come out”. I was just like, ‘Are we going to go on another date?’” She covers her face with her hands. “But I never was in a long-term, happy relationship, so it never crossed my mind to make it a part of my public life. “I was dating men, women, all sorts of people at that time,” the 37-year-old tells me over video call from Los Angeles. As The New Yorker noted at the time: “There are more lesbians here – butch and femme and of every ethnicity – than in any other series on television.” But Schilling’s personal life off screen? Well, she didn’t see how that was anyone’s business. Yanked away from her life in the West Village selling artisanal bath products, Piper spends her sentence using sanitary towels as flip-flops and hooking up with her on-off girlfriend in the prison chapel. ![]() In Orange is the New Black, the unflinching comedy-drama set in a women’s prison, she played Piper Chapman, a bougie New Yorker who ends up behind bars. ![]() For most of the 2010s, Taylor Schilling led the cast of one of the queerest shows on TV. ![]()
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