Fox relased to Entertainment Weekly a first look at Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Fox released to Entertainment Weekly a first look at Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Fox released a first-look photo of Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black) as the iconic Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the network’s fall remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Originally played by Tim Curry both on stage and in the classic 1975 film, Cox’s depiction of the doctor from Transsexual, Transylvania, takes a more elaborate approach.

“We were on set and a reporter saw me and said I looked like the love child of Grace Jones and David Bowie,” Cox told Entertainment Weekly. “I said, ‘That’s exactly right.’ I think we mix up the look more than they did in the original … [Director] Kenny Ortega had this vision that Frank was at this old theater and found these old burlesque costumes and is, like, using them and wearing them now but has altered them a bit.”

Cox is pictured with Dr. Scott (Ben Vereen). She says she gets tweets from people requesting she ‘Please don’t f—- up Rocky Horror Picture Show.’

“I showed my brothers pictures of me in character,” she said to EW. “And he was like ‘You were preparing your whole life for this.’”

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