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“Orange Is the New Black” Star Says It “Makes Sense” Her Character Missed Most of Season Three

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Natasha%20Lyonne?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1438194735398Jill Greenberg/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — SPOILER ALERT: Orange Is the New Black fans didn’t see much of Natasha Lyonne, and her character, the heroin-addicted, Nicky, this season. Still, the actress said it made sense.

“I feel a great deal of solidarity with the cast of Game of Thrones,” she quipped at a panel during the Television Critics Association’s Summer TV Press Tour 2015, according to E! News.

After three episodes, Lyonne’s Nicky was sent to a maximum security part of the jail after she was blamed for bringing drugs into the federal prison in which the drama is set.

“We have an incredible puppet master in [creator] Jenji [Kohan] and there’s a great deal of trust that I have in that,” she continued. “I’m pretty much a person who is up for adventure and I thought it was wise to have there be a big consequence for Nicky’s playing around with heroin. …There’s going to be hell to pay at a certain point for playing with her personal fire.”

Lyonne added, “I think it makes sense and I think that the stakes of the show and the reason it resonates and continues to is ultimately because of this underlying intensity to the fact that these people have lost their freedom and are up against themselves behind these walls. I think it’s a good thing to have major characters suffer major consequences. Otherwise, I think it might be a little bit too friendly and it loses some of its bite.”

Although Lyonne spoke a lot about her character, she wouldn’t reveal if Nicky would be let out of max next season. “That seems like a sneaky way to ask another spoiler question,” Lyonne replied to one question.

Season three of Orange Is the New Black is available now on Netflix.

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