I’m happy I got a job, but I’m not happy with that.’ But it’s unfortunate that a show like this can stay on this long, think of it like that.

But I’m just happy that they’re able to keep the viewers intrigued, involved, and happy and we haven’t had to make stuff that people are like, ‘Okay, you guys are reaching.’ One time I was on television and I said that these crimes are still going on and some lady wrote me, ‘Oh you’re happy.’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m not happy that crimes are going on. I mean, we’re over 500 episodes,” the actor expressed. It’s so well done.”Īfter playing Fin for so long, I had to ask if he had any dream storylines he would like to see tackled before the show ends. Honestly, you can act and step away from it, and when you see it on tv you’re like, ‘Wow, I’m acting my ass off!’ It’s lit right, you know, you do some indie movies and you’re like, ‘Holy shit, what the fuck was I just in?’ This is Law & Order, it’s gonna be good. It’s such a well-oiled machine that it’s not hard, they know what they’re doing. Everybody’s cool, everybody’s happy to be here. We act with the characters but we live with the real people and that’s one of the reasons I’ve been able to do the show so long is because it’s such a nice work environment, and that’s the answer. I just said Dann Florek was on the show and people are like, ‘He’s so mean.’ I’m like, ‘Dann was the funniest person in real life.’ So it’s more about people’s real-life personality than their character because you don’t really live with the character like, I live with Chris Meloni as Chris Meloni and he’s fun,” he said. “Mariska is fun to work with, she’s crazy, she’s much more funny than people think.

Ice-T then told me about working with his co-stars, Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni, as well as what a genuinely nice work environment it is. When that was over, he said, ‘I wish I had a stronger vehicle for you.’ I got the call to do this, last episode of the first season and he said, ‘Let’s do four episodes,’ and here it is 24 years.” Then I did Players, my show with Costas Mandylor and Frank Hughes. I did Exiled, I played a pimp, they killed me with a bowling pin. Then I did an episode of Swift Justice, which was one of his shows, played a bad guy. I started doing New York Undercover, I played a bad guy, did three episodes. The actor also opened up about what originally attracted him to the character and if he had any idea what it would turn into: I was a big fan of Kojak and different cops like Baretta, but they were only on 5, 6 seasons. “They’re like, ‘You rap?’ Really? You missed that whole part of my life? So it is when you get this deep into the double digits, you are actually covering people’s entire lives and that’s interesting to me. “It’s crazy for me cause starting off with a hip hop career that was long, 20 years, now, if I meet a kid that’s 22, they have no reference point to me as anything other than being on this show,” Ice-T explains.

To start, we spoke about how the drama has been passed through generations since it first premiered and how so many different ages tune in to watch. NBCUNIVERSAL EVENTS - “Law & Order Crossover Premiere Press Day” - Pictured: Ice T, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” at Capitale NYC, Septem(Photo by: Scott Gries/NBC)

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