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Camryn Manheim previewed her back-to-back Jan. 5 Law & Order and SVU episodes, including her quality Kate Dixon's imaginable caller relationship with Mariska Hargitay's Olivia Benson.
Camryn Manheim Calls "Law & Order" Reboot a "Full Circle Moment"
Law & Order fans volition beryllium seeing a batch of Lieutenant Kate Dixon this week connected NBC.
Right aft L&O's Jan. 5 episode, star Camryn Manheim volition hop implicit to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit to assistance her chap NYC squad by acting arsenic a motion connection interpreter for deaf victims. And bringing deaf practice to the tiny surface is thing the prima has ever made a precedence successful her career.
"If creation is expected to imitate life, we should person radical with disabilities scattered passim our show," Camryn said successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "We should person judges who are successful wheelchairs and lawyers who are blind. I mean, that is the existent world. So, I effort to promote the showrunners to bring much disabled radical connected the show, conscionable due to the fact that I privation disabled radical to beryllium capable to spot themselves connected television."
Another important taxable to the 61-year-old is pistillate friendship. And aft SVU's Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) bid farewell to BFF Det. Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) connected the show's Dec. 8 episode, Camryn teased that Dixon's quality connected the amusement volition assistance Benson capable that affectional void.
"One of the things that was important to Mariska was that erstwhile I came implicit to her precinct, that I noticed she was successful atrocious shape," Camryn shared. "She was physically not successful large shape, and that nary 1 had asked her until I arrived. And I'm like, 'Wow, however are you doing?' It's similar you request immoderate pistillate transportation to get to the existent stuff."
Unlike their characters' budding friendship, Camryn told E! that she and Mariska person been friends for "decades," thing that makes impermanent starring connected SVU a amusive experience. "It's fantastic to spell implicit there," she said, "and I truly emotion the full code and what the dependable is of SVU."
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Just similar many celebs—including Adam Driver, Sarah Paulson, Jennifer Garner and more—Camryn impermanent starred connected L&O successful the aboriginal days of her career. As for which actor she would emotion to person connected the show? Her prime is nary different than her son, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S prima Milo Manheim.
In fact, helium whitethorn amusement up connected the bid sooner than we think. Noting that the show's casting manager refused to formed Milo successful a tiny portion arsenic an Instagram star, Camryn revealed, "We're gonna constitute him thing big, truthful I anticipation that happens," adding, "That's thing I'm truly looking guardant to."
Catch Camryn's back-to-back Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes tonight, Jan. 5, astatine 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. connected NBC.
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