Get to Know Orange Is the New Black's Laura Gómez Before the Season 3 Premiere

PS: You look totally different as Blanca Flores. Does the beauty transformation take a long time?

LG: My favorite part about playing this character is that I look so different from myself. I am able to transform into this strange creature. Blanca is odd; it's like I keep peeling an onion, discovering new things about her temperament and her character. I wish I could say it takes forever to transform, but it does not. Our hair and makeup department is brilliant. It's 15 to 20 minutes in hair, maybe another 20 minutes in makeup. We work together in creating details, like sometimes I tell my makeup artist: “Oh, we need to make this brow a little bit more intense.” It’s what defines Blanca, right? That hair and that unibrow.