‘Orange Is The New Black’ Actor Matt McGorry Clears Up Things For Confused Fans

Today ladies and gentlemen, allow Orange Is The New Black actor Matt McGorry to give you a lesson in reality vs. fiction.

If you are an avid watcher of Orange Is The New Black [spoiler alert] then you know Matt McGorry plays correctional officer John Bennett on the show. Over the past three seasons, we’ve gotten to know the character of Bennett and how he ended up with a prosthetic leg. We also witnessed the character, and notice I keep using the word character, fall in love with inmate Dayanara Diaz played by actress Dascha Polanco.

Throughout the show, Bennett and Daya consummated their relationship which resulted in Daya becoming pregnant, clearly a big no no. Other circumstances lead the two to convince another officer, George “Pornstache” Mendez, played by Pablo Schreiber, to believe the baby was his, Pornstache landed in jail with Bennett free to be a good father for his baby.

In the third season Bennett wants to do the right thing by Daya and proposes but as Daya’s due date gets closer, the reality of fatherhood sinks in for him. He goes to visit Daya’s family, gets scared off, and then takes off leaving no word with anyone. Let’s be clear this is a TV SHOW as in NOT REAL, but actor McGorry had to establish that to online users who trolled his social media accounts with hateful messages about not being a good man or good dad to the character Daya and the baby.

Sunday on Instagram he sent a very long Father’s Day message to clear things up. “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,” He started the caption of his post.

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He added, “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.”

McGorry ended the post with, “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”

Hope that clears everything up. Share your thoughts in the comments below on how Matt McGorry handled this situation.

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