{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Funny People Talking","title":"Alysia Reiner – “OITNB” and “Egg” Actress – #FIGALICIOUS","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4868,"description":"Robotic sex, Alysia’s new film “Egg”, becoming and being “Fig” on Orange Is the New Black”, inhabiting a role and finding the comedy, returning to the same character with each new season, why producing roles is so important, and a tootsie roll you can drink? Plus an improv game makes new movies out of old one with “Recycled Movie Pitch”!\nActress/Producer Alysia Reiner (@alysiareiner) guests with hosts Marc Raco (@racomarc), Danielle Beckmann (@deebeck) and producer Elsie (@elsietheproducer) in the MouthMedia Network studio powered by Sennheiser. Recorded in front of a live audience.\n\nAlysia is best known as “Fig”” on ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK for which she won a SAG award.  Her dark-comedic feature about motherhood, EGG, premiered at Tribeca film festival 2018, and was released in January 2019. Reiner stars with Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp, and serves as a producer. She is passionately committed to protecting the environment (see livariclothing.com) and being a change maker for women.\nIn this episode:\nDanielle shares some nerd tips for anyone looking for an agreeable (robotic) date\nThe case at CES this past year where a robotic sex toy had its award for innovation revoked for being “immoral,” and the gender biases in that industry\nAlysia’s new film, “Egg”\nThe film’s 70% female cast and crew\nThe approach they took to produce the film much like a play, following the script closely and shooting in a manner that allowed for longer takes\nThe challenges as an actor and producer to prepare for shooting a film in this way\nA round of “Recycled Movie Pitch,” where we combine two movies that are in no way connected, and have to pitch that hypothetical film\nAlysia’s experience playing Fig on Orange Is the New Black, and navigating her character’s dramatic arc over the course of the show\nHow Alysia’s personality and work ethic on set may have influenced her character’s arc from a stereotypically mean character to one with more depth\nAlysia’s belief that most people truly...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1QUEWBDcWaHiBcwC2rPqrzWhn0UEgcmTRY_yx0yYuBE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5MzEyLzE3MDg4/MTE1NTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}