'Orange Is The New Black' Actor Harrassed By Fans Over Character's Actions Writes Sarcastic Father's Day Response
by Andy Neuenschwander
This Father's Day was a little rough for Litchfield's own John Bennett.
If you've been watching the new season of "Orange is the New Black" on Netflix, then you know about Bennett's questionable actions concerning Daya and their unborn prison baby.
The problem is that Matt McGorry, the actor who plays Bennett on the show, has been getting harassment from fans on Twitter, blaming him for ditching Daya.
It's gotten so bad that McGorry actually took the time to write a long, sarcastic post on Facebook about how John Bennett is, in fact, a fictional character and that he should not be held responsible for John's actions.
Here's the full post, it's a pretty great read:
"Happy Fathers Day to all the real fathers out there! I am an actor and I play the fictional character John Bennett on the fictional television show entitled Orange Is The New Black. Here I am with actresses Dascha Polanco and Elizabeth Rodriguez who play make-believe mother-daughter characters named Dayanara and Aleida Diaz on the made up television program with me. They are not mother and Daugther in real life even though they and we play pretend characters that are sometimes even the opposite of who we are as real live people while not reflecting our real lives because it is not real. Moments before this photograph was taken I was even saying words that were written by another person, all the while pretending that my name was John Bennett and that his thoughts and actions were a result of my own brain! Weirdly, the words coming out of my mouth and the things I did in the story were not created by me at all! To make matters even more confusing, I am even dressed in fictional character John Bennett's costume (a costume is like fictional clothes) in this photograph that was taken on the television set and afterwards I went home to my apartment in New York City where I don't have a child because I'm not a father and have never worked in a prison and TV is not real life. #oitnb"