Taylor Schilling (Picture: Splash)

Taylor Schilling has insisted she can do more than just sex behind bars following her success in hit lesbian prison drama Orange Is The New Black.

The 29-year-old, who plays jailed bisexual Piper Chapman on the Netflix show, also said she was no longer burdened by how she looks naked thanks to her role in the drama. ‘It’s totally liberating,’ the American actress said of her X-rated sex scenes.

‘There’s freedom in not having to make it about how my jeans fit or what my boobs look like in a top. All I have to do now is play.’

Taylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman in the hit US drama (Picture: Netflix)

Schilling told how there were more strings in her bow aside from getting down and dirty on screen. ‘I don’t feel bound by my face or my body,’ she explained.




‘I don’t feel like that’s the biggest gift I have to offer the world. I feel like there are more parts of me to offer than that.’

The star also told how getting her kit off hasn’t always come easy after growing up as a teen with self-esteem issues in Boston, Massachusetts.

‘It was tough at home, and it was tough at school,’ she told the July issue of Allure magazine.

‘My experience was painful, so painful. There was a period of time I had very short hair, and I had glasses, and I was very tall for my age,’ she added.

Schilling admitted that still struggled with being recognised by people on the street thanks to the success of the show.

‘It’s really wild – people are so excited about the show, and I can definitely feel it when I’m out in the world,’ she said. ‘I had no idea it was such a big thing. It feels like everybody watches it! It’s a TV show!

‘I thought people only got recognisable after they’d done several films.’

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