Ruby Rose as Stella in season three of Orange is the New Black.
Ruby Rose as Stella in season three of Orange is the New Black.
Ruby Rose has not returned to the next season of hit show Orange Is The New Black.
The Aussie actress revealed that filming for season four of the Netflix show has begun in New York, and she's not a part of it and still doesn't know if her character Stella will return.
"With Jenji (Kohan, the show's creator) literally anything could happen. But I think they've already started shooting in New York and I'm obviously not in those episodes. I think if Stella were to come back, it would be a pretty hefty storyline. She wouldn't just be coming back happy about the situation," Rose told Variety.
Rose has Orange is the New Black to thank for her astronomical rise in America, a country she's been struggling to crack for some time. Before she was cast, Rose revealed she couldn't book auditions and was without an agent for long time.
However, she says her now infamous short film Break Free - in which she changes from a feminine, long-haired, blonde woman to a more androgynous short-haired character - led to her booking Orange is the New Black.
"I just can't imagine how I could have gone under the radar in America for two years and then I release the short (Break Free) and I get this audition for a character that I think has quite a few similarities to the character I'm portraying in the short," she said.
Rose gained a lot of attention for her role as saucy Stella who sent pulses racing in a naked bathroom scene in the last season of Orange Is The New Black.
Since then, the actress became lots of people's girl crushes, regardless of gender and sexuality, but Rose insists that's all down to Stella and not her.
"I think Stella is more the girl crush, she's so cool and doesn't care what people think about her and I'm a much more dweeby, nerdy version of Stella," she said.
"What I think is cool is that it's allowed people watching the show to get to know me. If being someone's girl crush is going to bring people to watch the work that I do, then that's a bonus."
The season three cast of Orange Is The New Black.
Happily engaged to fashion designer Phoebe Dahl, Rose says the new admirers have made made for some funny exchanges.
"My fiancee has been extra sweet to me because she thinks people like me now."
The show has also given Rose a unique entry into the American market without her having to alter her accent.
Rose actually read for her Orange is the New Black character with an American accent and hired a dialect coach before filming began, but the creators had a last minute change of heart.
"I've landed a role in arguably one of the biggest television shows in the world that I'm a big fan of and I think I'm playing an American so I have this dialect coach I was training with every day to nail the accent and I get there and everything I had learned I had to unlearn in 20 seconds," she said.
"But I'm really glad because it allowed them to take some liberties in the script using some lingo and even jokes involving dingos."
Last week, Rose told Access Hollywood she was contemplating gender reassignment surgery from the age of five, and had even set up a money jar to save enough for the surgery. By 15, she said she "started to get more into" her body and decided against a transition.
