VIDEO: Laverne Cox Talks 'ROCKY HORROR' Role: 'I Put Everything I Had Into This'

By: May. 23, 2016
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"People can be very... challenging and critical, but I put everything I had into this. I gave 250 percent, and I hope people like what we came up with," explains Laverne Cox of her role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in FOX's upcoming ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

The 31-year-old, who spoke about the project to ET on the red carpet of last night's BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS, explained that taking on the iconic role was a responsibility she took very seriously. "Rocky Horror is sacred to people," she says. "It's the longest-running movie in theater history, in movie history. For 41 years, people have been going to midnight showings and dressing up, and there's been shadow casts all over the world. It means so much to so many people." Watch the interview below!

FOX will air THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW during the last week of October 2016. The cast includes Laverne Cox (Dr. Frank-N-Furter, "Orange is the New Black"), Victoria Justice (Janet, "Victorious"), Adam Lambert (Eddie, "American Idol) Ryan McCartan (Brad, "Liv & Maddie," "Heathers the Musical"), Reeve Carney (Riff Raff, "Penny Dreadful," "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark") and Staz Nair (Rocky, "Game of Thrones").

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW follows sweethearts Janet (Justice) and Brad (McCartan), who stumble upon Dr. Frank-N-Furter's (Cox) bizarre abode. Frank-N-Furter, a sexually ambiguous, flirtatious alien mad-scientist - with the help of his faithful servants, Riff Raff (Carney) and Magenta - is holding an annual, Transylvanian Science convention to showcase the birth of "Rocky Horror" (Nair) - a fit, attractive man created solely to fulfill Frank's desires.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is from FOX 21 Television Studios and The Jackal Group. Lou Adler (Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee) and Gail Berman (TV, film and Broadway producer), along with Emmy Award winner Kenny Ortega ("High School Musical" franchise, "This Is It," "Descendants," "Hocus Pocus," "Newsies"), will serve as executive producers. Ortega will also direct and choreograph.



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