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One The Handmaid's Tale histrion is heading from Gilead to NYC to impermanent prima connected an upcoming occurrence of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. All the details.
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Bradley Whitford is trading successful the Republic of Gilead for New York City.
The Handmaid's Tale star—who plays Commander Lawrence connected the deed Hulu series—will impermanent prima connected the Feb. 23 occurrence of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, E! News confirmed. Playing a prof with early-onset dementia, the Mariska Hargitay-directed occurrence volition spot Whitford's quality transverse paths with Captain Olivia Benson aft helium confesses to a execution helium committed years ago.
Well known for his roles in Get Out and The West Wing, the upcoming occurrence marks the actor's 2nd clip connected SVU. Whitford antecedently appeared connected play 15 of the NBC play in 2014 playing a tv shaper who fled to France aft being recovered blameworthy of intersexual assault.
And conscionable similar Hargitay has directed respective episodes of SVU implicit the years, Whitford precocious stepped down the camera, directing the penultimate occurrence of The Handmaid's Tale season 5 titled "Allegiance."
The 63-year-old's impermanent spot comes amid a large casting alteration connected the long-running procedural, which bade farewell to prima Kelli Giddish successful December 2022. After 12 seasons arsenic Amanda Rollins, the detective near her occupation astatine the SVU—but not earlier tying the knot with her fellow Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. (Peter Scanavino)—on the show's Dec. 8 episode.
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"I felt similar wherever it was heading, and wherever it headed past night, conscionable seemed the close spot to permission it close now," Giddish told Variety after her exit. "I americium truthful excited astir things going connected successful my idiosyncratic beingness and benignant of the mirroring of what's going connected successful my idiosyncratic beingness and successful Rollins', there's a batch of joyousness to beryllium experienced."
She besides hinted astatine the anticipation of Rollins returning to SVU successful the future, teasing, "Dick Wolf has got specified a fertile beingness that's going on, that radical tin popular up successful antithetic places. That's a truly chill happening that he's created."
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airs Thursdays astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC.
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