Laverne Cox is going from Litchfield Penitentiary to the courtroom.Bring it on!
The Orange Is the New Black breakout has been tapped to co-star in CBS' buzzy legal drama Doubt, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama revolves around a yet-to-be-cast smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets romantically involved with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
Cox, in one of the biggest showings of diversity yet this pilot season, will co-star as Cameron Wirth, a role specifically created for a transgender actress. The character is described as a transgender Ivy League-educated attorney who is as competitive as she is compassionate. She's fierce, funny, and the fact that she's experienced injustice first hand makes her fight all the harder for her clients.
ETA. Based on the description, there is, of course, a lot of space for this to go horribly wrong. But I think there's also a lot of space to hope that it will go right. Fingers crossed!
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