Netflix's Orange Is the New Black star and trans actor Laverne Cox recently opened up about the road to stardom. While talking to Cynthia Nixon, Ilene Chaiken, Jason Collins and Adam Rippon moderated by Gio Benitez in Paley Center's Pride Month programming via People, the star recalled how she almost quit acting before she was cast in Orange Is the New Black. "In the fall of 2012 we started shooting this show and I was just so happy to have a job; I was in rent arrears on my apartment, I had rolled back rent and I was in all kinds of debt and I was going to give up acting actually, a few months before I booked Orange," Cox, 48, recalled.

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