Orange Is The New Black acts as a much-needed celebration of diversity

Orange Is The New Black may masquerade as a fish-out-of-water drama, but it also acts as a much-needed celebration of diversity, its stars tell Ed Power.

IT’S A punishingly humid day in Berlin and in an opulent hotel at Potsdamer Platz the stars of Orange Is the New Black are appropriately hot and bothered.

“Donald Trump is not one step from the White House,” says Lea DeLaria, aka the Netflix hit’s resident ‘butch lesbian’ Carrie ‘Big Boo’ Black.