Let Danielle Brooks' Orange Is the New Black Throwback Picture With Samira Wiley Soothe Your Broken Heart

So sweet, yet so cruel

By Chris Harnick Jul 05, 2016 5:09 PMTags
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Just as you finally stopped crying about the end of Orange Is the New Black, Danielle Brooks pops on Twitter to rip your heart out once again. It's been almost a month since season four dropped on Netflix, so you've been warned.

Brooks, Taystee to OITNB fans, tweeted the above photo, a Taystee Tuesday throwback, with Samira Wiley aka Poussey.

"Our last moment together from season 4! Love this one to the moon and back," she tweeted.

Look at that love.

Wiley and Brooks have known each other for years, way before they both booked Orange Is the New Black. In the penultimate episode of season four, Wiley's character is accidentally killed by a guard as Brooks' Taystee and the other inmates look on in horror.

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"Danielle is such an amazing actress and I think there are so many parallels in that scene of our journey together and our life. When I first told her about it, she was shocked and we cried together first before we did the scene, we cried together afterwards and we cried through it," Wiley told us. "I haven't really experienced anything like the chemistry Danielle and I have on screen and the journey we've been able to take together. It's something really, really special."

Brooks, who is also starring on Broadway in The Color Purple, told us Wiley helped her move into her dorm room at Juilliard and they had performed together in the past.

"We've been friends since 2007. We've seen each other grow. We've been in plays together, so we're very close. I don't know if it would've been the same performance if it was anyone else that day other than Samira playing Poussey because of how close we are as friends. I don't know, the release of it all is the fact that at the end of the day I got to still embrace Samira and feel her heartbeat on my chest after we finished that scene. I got to hug her and know that we're playing pretend and she's still alive," Brooks said. "The reality is that there are so many people that don't get to do that, that are dealing with grief and that are dealing with the loss of their sister and their brother or their child or their mother and father. That's the reality for a lot of people, especially with our country."

Brooks is back at work on season five of Orange Is the New Black and Wiley has joined the cast of FXX's You're the Worst.

Watch: Danielle Brooks & Adrienne C. Moore Talk "OITNB" Season 4
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