If you’re planning on binge watching season 4 of Orange is the New Black on June 17th then be prepared for Lea DeLaria to bitch slap you.

In fact, those were her words.

DeLaria, who plays OITNB fan favourite inmate ‘Big Boo’, fully expects audiences to indulge in their guilty pleasure in one sitting – just don’t tweet at her after for more episodes.

"I know they will; there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s crazy: I walk down the street in my neighbourhood, and every window I pass, I see me on the TV. Every window. It’s nutty," she tells Gay Calgary during a break at the recent Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo.

"And you guys, really, show some restraint. You know, ’cause you guys watch it – you watch it, you watch it – you’re done with it in two minutes, then you’re tweeting at me, when’s the next season coming out, and honest to God I will bitch slap the first person that says that to me. You gotta wait a year for every television show; it’s just that ours come all out at once."

Not that DeLaria can blame viewers – the original Netflix series took audiences and critics by storm when it first aired on July 11th, 2013, and has been averaging millions of viewers ever since. As a testament to its popularity, the female prison dramedy was just renewed through to its seventh season.

"So when Orange hits airwaves on June 17th, basically what happens is 80 million people around the world are all sitting in front of whatever their devices are, at the same time, watching the show," DeLaria says.

DeLaria says ‘nobody’ could have imagined how big the show, which is based on the book by the same name written by Jenji Kohan about her prison experiences, would become.

"I mean, there was no way that we could think that anything like this was going to happen. And it’s new; Netflix was new so we didn’t realize how their business plan and business model was going to basically change the way everyone watches television. It’s a complete game changer."

DeLaria, who is also a comedian and self-professed Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/William Shatner fan, was recently in Calgary as a guest of the Calgary Comic Expo, and says there is no difference between Canadian fans or American fans – or anywhere in the world fans for that matter.

"It’s very popular everywhere it has shown; it’s like the number one television show in every country that it has shown in... but people in Canada love the show. They scream when I get off an airplane in an airport; they come up to me; they want their picture taken – I mean that is, to me, the beauty of it; we actually make Canadians say things out loud in public. Amazing."

So with just days to go until the latest season is released, DeLaria reminds you that much like Regina Spektor’s opening credits song says, "You’ve Got Time."