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"[Spoilers ahead if you haven&amp;#039;t seen episode four.] Lorna Morello is one of the sweetest characters on Orange Is the New Black, and not just because her voice is adorably high-pitched and her accent is charmingly thick and muddled. (Is she from Brooklyn? Boston? What&amp;#039;s happening?) It&amp;#039;s because she&amp;#039;s thoughtful. She&amp;#039;s polite. She&amp;#039;s a romantic. Turns out, though, she&amp;#039;s also a stalker. She&amp;#039;s not engaged to Christopher (CRIS-tuh-fuh); the two of them were never even a couple. They went on one coffee date after crashing into each other at the post office. The fact that she was there to pick up designer shoes as part of her return-fraud scam? Just a red herring. She&amp;#039;s in fact in prison for next-level stalking \u2014 the kind that involves death threats and homemade bombs. Cosmopolitan.com spoke to Yael Stone, the Australian theater actress who plays Lorna, about the disturbing reveal, shooting the scene where Lorna breaks into Christopher&amp;#039;s house, and why everyone kind of hates Christopher, even though he technically has every right to be mad at this Twilight-obsessed woman for trying to kill him. I&amp;#039;m still a little creeped out by the reveal. [Laughs] Me too. I&amp;#039;m creeped out too. When did you find out Lorna&amp;#039;s backstory? And what was your reaction to it? I literally got the script for episode four and that&amp;#039;s how I found out; I never, ever knew anything before that \u2014 never. There was some clue in season one: Big Boo [Lea DeLaria] says in this one scene where she&amp;#039;s taunting Lorna, &amp;quot;I hope you don&amp;#039;t get scammed on eBay, because that would be ironic.&amp;quot; And so I thought, OK, that&amp;#039;s where we&amp;#039;re heading. She&amp;#039;s an eBay scammer. But that&amp;#039;s really all I knew; I really had no clue. And that&amp;#039;s not even why she went to jail. Though I was really expecting the shoe scam to be what did her in. Yeah, that was a little red herring, wasn&amp;#039;t it? She was definitely doing that, but that&amp;#039;s not what she got found out for. Lorna didn&amp;#039;t necessarily share the details of why she was there with Big Boo because she wasn&amp;#039;t really at peace with it either. In her mind, it never happened. Christopher is still her fianc\u00E9. She&amp;#039;s still expecting him to visit. I think at that point in episode four, she&amp;#039;s still in that place of complete delusion. You see later in the season, when Christopher shows up to confront Lorna, that Nicky didn&amp;#039;t know the truth either. Even she thought Lorna&amp;#039;s relationship with Christopher was real. Yeah. I think when we tell lies to ourselves, we do it in a really powerful way; we do it in such a way that it becomes our truth. And anyone who knows us intimately knows this lie to be the truth in the same way. Because if you really believe it yourself, it takes hold. But Lorna isn&amp;#039;t just the average person lying to herself. She threatened Christopher&amp;#039;s life, she threatened his fianc\u00E9e&amp;#039;s life, she made a bomb. How do you think she got that far gone? There&amp;#039;s an actual condition. There is this kind of place that you can go to with that level of stalking where you need that connection. And all your behavior is justified because that person has hurt you in your mind or owes you that much. And I think Lorna definitely goes to a place where they are in a full-blown relationship, where they have a dog together, where they&amp;#039;re engaged to be married \u2014 where in actual fact, we learn that she&amp;#039;s had one date with Christopher. One coffee date! I think she has a Cinderella complex. She longs for some Prince Charming to rescue her. She even calls herself Cinderella in the beginning of the episode. I think you&amp;#039;re so right. What is going on in her life that drives her to want that so badly? We know that her mom is sick and her sister seems annoying and bossy. But we don&amp;#039;t know much more than that. It&amp;#039;s really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory. In television, I&amp;#039;m learning, it&amp;#039;s so different \u2014 it changes all the time and the sand is shifting under your feet all the time, and you learn things about characters that you just didn&amp;#039;t know last week. When I came into the show \u2014 and I should add, I could have been there for one episode, maybe two \u2014 I created this whole backstory and all this stuff, but none of it turned out to be true. So I learned to just relax that idea, find the character in those moments of revelation, and not plan too far ahead. Because it can sort of be your undoing. What was the backstory you had in mind in season one? [Laughs] Completely different. Can you say what it was? I can&amp;#039;t [laughs more].  You&amp;#039;re embarrassed? I&amp;#039;m embarrassed. And it&amp;#039;s not the truth anymore. So all that other stuff has kind of melted away. OK, let&amp;#039;s talk about the break-in scene. It was very intense to watch. Was it as unsettling to shoot? It really was, actually, because Lorna was feeling so much. This reality was crashing in on her. And that&amp;#039;s such a private despair, and I think we&amp;#039;ve all felt those moments where we&amp;#039;ve had that sickening gut feeling where you thought something was what it was and the truth is actually so far from that. I&amp;#039;ve definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips. And whether she brought it on herself or not \u2014 be it her fault for creating something in her mind or whether she has a sickness \u2014 it&amp;#039;s just as painful. So that was very intense.  The whole trip to Christopher&amp;#039;s house starts with her singing along to &amp;quot;Almost Paradise&amp;quot; in the car. I&amp;#039;m not saying you&amp;#039;re not a good singer, but Lorna is definitely not a good singer. Lorna is not a good singer. I think I have sung now twice as Lorna, and I hope I am slightly better than Lorna, but probably not much. To be honest, that was not my natural singing voice. But I think it&amp;#039;s sweet that she has this really strange, high voice. At the end of season one, we had the Christmas talent show, and I think we sang &amp;quot;Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,&amp;quot; and I practiced for a week, like, [sings in Lorna&amp;#039;s high-pitched voice] &amp;quot;Hark the herald angels sing&amp;quot; \u2014 like, how high could I possibly sing this?  Well, also, you&amp;#039;re having to sing in Lorna&amp;#039;s accent, which I&amp;#039;m sure makes it harder. I&amp;#039;ve resisted the temptation to point out how different your accent is in real life until now. You sound nothing like Lorna, obviously. You know, I could be someone completely different. I could be this random Australian girl. You got a fill-in to do your interviews and nobody is the wiser. How did you come up with her accent? It was something I had to come into the audition with. I sort of delight in coming up with a full picture and Lorna felt like someone you could really do that with. She&amp;#039;s not like the everyman kind of character; she&amp;#039;s not the girl next door. She really is a character. So I kind of went to town, I guess. I did the lipstick and I found this strange, weird, East Coast mash-up accent. I was living in South Brooklyn at the time, so there were sounds around me that I was borrowing. There are definitely some Boston vowels in there. Going back to Christopher: When he was yelling at Lorna, I found myself thinking of him as the bad guy. Even though he had every right to be mean to Lorna, you want him to just get taken away. It&amp;#039;s crazy, isn&amp;#039;t it? I just joined Twitter, I finally caved, and people are writing to me, like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll marry you!&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m married to a guy named Christopher and you can have him!&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;That Christopher&amp;#039;s a bastard.&amp;quot; And it&amp;#039;s so funny, because someone else wrote in and was like, &amp;quot;Guys, Lorna is a stalker&amp;quot; [laughs]. I think it&amp;#039;s such a testament to the show, because you&amp;#039;ve actually fallen in love with somebody in a way that you can understand them, and that is incredible. The great trick of [show creator] Jenji Kohan is that Piper is the Trojan horse. She takes us into this prison and we go on her journey, and what we do along the way is fall in love with these people we didn&amp;#039;t know we could love. And we suddenly learn that we have the capacity to really connect with a transgendered inmate, a crazy stalker, a woman who is called Crazy Eyes who is arguably highly mentally disturbed \u2014 and somehow we&amp;#039;re on the inside with them and we get them. We get where they&amp;#039;re coming from. Photo Credit: Netflix "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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