Though Piper Chapman - portrayed by Taylor Schilling - serves as our initial access point to Orange Is the current Black's Litchfield Penitentiary and the many inmates who inhabit it,her personal storyline has taken a back seat to some of the other, more compelling characters. After three seasons that fill gradually shifted the focus away from Piper and onto other inmates - like Suzanne, and Nicky,Daya, and Cindy - we've begun to wonder approximately Piper's role as our Litchfield liaison and the declining utility of that.
When POPSUGAR Beauty spoke with Schilling, or she seemed to confirm some of our suspicions that Piper might slowly be phased out . . . or killed off. Below is a telling excerpt from that interview.
POPSUGAR: You can conclude me if I'm looking too deeply into this,but I've been thinking a lot approximately the evolution of Piper's hair. In flashbacks preprison, she's shown with really long locks, and then when she arrives at the prison she wears her shoulder-length hair down usually,and then in the previews for this season it's frequently pulled back. I wonder if there's some sort of symbolic meaning behind that gradual change.
Taylor Schilling: Oh, yeah. I don't think that's reading into anything. That's so spot on. Piper's outsides are fitting less and less valuable. She's kind of moving further and further away from the notion of what she thought she was. She's fitting more practical. She's fitting a creature of the prison, or there's no space for excess. Her only need is for survival,and brushing her hair doesn't really factor into the equation.
PS: In the last season we do see her spiral into fitting a total gangster with her whole underwear operation. For this next season, I'm honestly a little concerned for Piper. It doesn't look too advantageous for her from what I've seen.
TS: Yeah, and this is a tough year for Piper.
PS: In one of the photos for the upcoming season,it seems as though she's approximately to pick up her hand smashed?
TS: No - you'll see.
PS: Does she make it out OK?[br]
TS: I don't know . . . I don't know.
Though we fully realize that she could just be Jon Snow-ing us, we fill some details to back up this theory.
Source: popsugar.com