Nothing speaks to Taylor Schilling more than discovering a character at a very specific starting point in their life. And on Netflix's prison dramedy Orange Is the New Black, that point of entry for Schilling's character Piper Chapman is her incarceration at Litchfield Women's Penitentiary.

"She had no idea who she really was before entering Litchfield," Schilling told BuzzFeed of Piper, who was forced on a journey of self-exploration in Season 1. "Last year was all about Piper unlocking boxes within herself, and we go deeper into that arc in Season 2. Piper's idea of who she was is turned on its head even more — if that's possible. She's not who she thought she was and there's an excitement to that."

But before Orange Is the New Black's second season premieres on June 6, Schilling will star in Stay, a new movie where she plays Abby, one half of a couple (she co-stars with Aidan Quinn) that is rocked by an unplanned pregnancy. At a glance, the roles couldn't be more different — blonde Piper processes every experience through an extremely heightened emotional reality, while the simplicity of brunette Abby's existence is reinforced by the film's intensely quiet tone.

Still, Abby struck a similar chord in Schilling that Piper did when she was first introduced to the Orange Is the New Black character. "I connect to a script when it captures the moment a character can't keep going the same way she's been going and is forced down a path of change. I really connect to watching someone discover parts of themselves they didn't know were there," she explained of the similarities between Abby and Piper. "They're both confronting that moment when you can no longer sweep your past under the rug and are forced to look quite honestly at what you're trying to do."