SAMIRA WILEY AND LAUREN MORELLI

It certainly looks like Netflix’s hit series Orange is the New Black didn’t just create fictional relationships between its characters, it created real ones between cast members, too. And Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli is evidence of the show’s love-creating powers. Indeed, they tied the knot in 2018, almost four years after meeting on set. Wiley shared for an interview that she found herself already in love with Morelli’s mind prior to even meeting the scriptwriter.

Interestingly enough, Morelli apparently belatedly realized she was a lesbian only after working on the OITNB set, and says that the realization was, to a huge degree, extremely liberating. In an interview, Once Wiley said: “I was really attracted to Lauren’s mind first before I met Lauren the person. I got her script and I was like: ‘This person’s really talented, I can’t wait to meet this person’.”