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Laverne Cox Lands Lead Role in 'Rocky Horror' TV Reboot

She's going to do the Time Warp.
Laverne Cox Lands Lead Role in 'Rocky Horror' TV Reboot
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By Taylor Lewis · Updated October 27, 2020
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Laverne Cox is on her way back to the small screen.

Deadline reports that the Orange is the New Black actress was just cast as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in CBS’ 2016 television reboot of the famed 1975 flick, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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The cult classic follows a pair of lovebirds who stumble upon the quirky home of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a sexually ambiguous alien/scientist who is in the process of unveiling an ideal male prototype.

The reboot will air just in time for Halloween 2016.