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" Even as a lovable pie enthusiast, Suzanne &amp;quot;Crazy Eyes&amp;quot; Warren has a dark side. The rage bubbles up in season two of Orange Is the New Black \u2014 first, when it&amp;#039;s revealed that Suzanne jumped into the Piper-Pennsatucky beat-down and left Piper&amp;#039;s face bloody. Then in another cringeworthy scene, when Suzanne snaps and viciously attacks Poussey for shoving Vee (the villain who manipulates her way into Suzanne&amp;#039;s heart). But despite being mentally unstable, Suzanne can also be insightful; she&amp;#039;s the one who dishes sage love advice to a devastated Morello after her stalker dreams are dashed. The depth and humor that actress Uzo Aduba brings to the role (she won this year&amp;#039;s Critic&amp;#039;s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series) makes it hard to ever hate Crazy Eyes. Cosmpolitan.com spoke to Aduba about her character&amp;#039;s unusual relationship with her adoptive mother, playing an outsider, and why Suzanne just wants to be loved. We see Suzanne beating up Piper early on in season two and, later, Poussey in the bathroom. Did you have to tap into any rage for that? Did you have to kind of go somewhere? I was definitely feeling like Suzanne was in a fugue stage. Everything about her, I always feel like it&amp;#039;s a 10. So the way she feels about her mother ... I wanted to connect that frustration over never feeling good enough: You want me to be more than what I am, when what I am should be enough. I tried to tap into that experience and what that must feel like to not ever measure up fully.  There are a few scenes that connect Suzanne&amp;#039;s childhood with her prison experience. Like when she&amp;#039;s on stage trying to sing at graduation and then at the Litchfield Christmas show. The outsider theme is recurring. Do you relate to that in any way? I don&amp;#039;t necessarily relate to it as far as the adult self, but I can understand how she&amp;#039;s never felt like she&amp;#039;s fit in. We&amp;#039;re surprised when we meet her parents \u2014 one of these things is not like the other. To feel like you never really fit in with your family or they don&amp;#039;t really know what to do with you, or their community, their neighbor, their friends aren&amp;#039;t really accepting of who you are, I can connect and certainly empathize with that feeling. My family is first-generation Nigerian and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; in that regard. Like, Wow, I don&amp;#039;t see any other Nigerian faces around me. And then to understand how that being the beginning of your story could translate to this present-day narrative that you&amp;#039;re living. Suzanne obviously sees something in Vee that comforts her. Why do you think she&amp;#039;s easily manipulated, whereas Poussey is the opposite? The thing about Suzanne is she is constantly seeking validation. That is her driving force \u2014 for someone to see her. And Vee does see her. Going back, she doesn&amp;#039;t feel or see that validation or acceptance from her mother. Because Vee is calculating and filled with an agenda, she sees that need in Suzanne and manipulates it to her favor. And that is very much so the opposite of what Poussey is like. I find it interesting because Vee is able to manipulate a lot of the women in Ghetto dorm, except for Poussey. And a lot of those women, we hear of or see the absence of a maternal figure. Taystee is looking for a parent. Suzanne has a very dysfunctional relationship with her own mother. We see Black Cindy&amp;#039;s relationship with her mother and even the relationship with her daughter. There&amp;#039;s something very empty there. Poussey, interestingly enough, is the only one who has a maternal relationship. In season one, she talks about wanting to get out of prison to go meet her mother. She loved her. Even though her mother passed away, she has that figure. So Vee can&amp;#039;t use that to get in with her. Suzanne has been looking for and desperate to find a love interest of any sort. Speaking of that, Suzanne is profound in some ways. In the Valentine&amp;#039;s Day episode, she says something about &amp;quot;people who aren&amp;#039;t smart enough to be loved back.&amp;quot; Do you think she&amp;#039;s had a relationship? Do you see her being in love with someone? I can see that. In season one, she referenced having a girlfriend who&amp;#039;s gone now. We don&amp;#039;t know if that&amp;#039;s real now. It&amp;#039;d be interesting because I don&amp;#039;t think she&amp;#039;s a Morello, where it&amp;#039;s like, it never happened [laughs]. But I could see her having found somebody or been in pursuit of someone. Something. I don&amp;#039;t think it ever ends well or in her favor, or it hasn&amp;#039;t in the past, just because she doesn&amp;#039;t strike me as someone who&amp;#039;s had a bite from that love apple. Orange breaks the standards of beauty we&amp;#039;re used to seeing. It presents women of all sizes. People are even surprised to see the actresses with makeup. How has the show helped body image for women in general? I think it certainly has provoked a conversation for people to reexamine the definition of beauty. I think it&amp;#039;s helped to broaden both our ideas and ideal images. For example, I think it&amp;#039;s fantastic on our show that we have a character like Matt McGorry&amp;#039;s John Bennett, who is a classic idea of the strapping man. We have our own idea of what this person is quote-unquote supposed to be. And the woman he falls for is the incredibly beautiful, the incredibly sexy Dascha Polanco. She plays the gorgeous girl on our show because she is a gorgeous girl. I think it&amp;#039;s amazing to see how people respond to that. And it doesn&amp;#039;t have to be a waif; it doesn&amp;#039;t have to be anything. That&amp;#039;s the point. Beauty can be everything. We&amp;#039;re seeing dark-skinned women. We&amp;#039;re seeing Afro-Cuban women. We&amp;#039;re seeing transgender women, Laverne Cox being a representative of beauty as well. She is beautiful.  I think being able to go on the whole press and media parade and be ourselves \u2014 I look like me [laughs]. I&amp;#039;m wearing natural hair. I think it has helped, and I&amp;#039;m proud to see a conversation happening where people of all walks are finding themselves, people you may not have ever considered as attractive.  RELATED: Talking to Orange Is the New Black&amp;#039;s Taystee and Poussey All the Pop Culture References in Orange Is the New Black 15 Orange Is the New Black Characters Ranked by Best Friend Potential  Follow Clover on Twitter.  Photo Credit: Netflix "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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