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Fresh disconnected playing a villain successful Law & Order: Organized Crime, Dylan McDermott knew it was clip to crook to the airy successful FBI: Most Wanted. Here's why.
Dylan McDermott Goes Inside the Mind of Criminal Richard Wheatly
Dylan McDermott knew it was clip to spot the light.
Ahead of the play 2 premiere of CBS' FBI: Most Wanted, the histrion exclusively revealed to E! News wherefore helium decided to instrumentality connected the relation of Fugitive Task Force brag Remy Scott aft playing the evil Richard Wheatley successful Law & Order: Organized Crime.
"I played a batch of bully characters successful my career, but recently, the past 10 years, I deliberation they've been much questionable—certainly from American Horror Story to Organized Crime and immoderate movies successful there, truthful it was clip to spell backmost to the good," McDermott said. "So erstwhile Dick [Wolf] called maine with this role, it was cleanable timing, due to the fact that I decidedly needed to spell back."
And though Remy and Richard couldn't beryllium much different—Wheatley is simply a known transgression boss, portion Remy is simply a high-strung, law-abiding national agent—McDermott said helium approaches the characters successful the aforesaid way.
"When I'm playing a atrocious guy, I tried to find what's bully successful him, and erstwhile I'm playing a bully guy, I tried to find retired what's atrocious successful him," helium explained. "Nobody's conscionable bully oregon nary one's conscionable bad. Because I don't deliberation a atrocious feline says, 'Oh, I'm a atrocious guy.' They warrant everything."
Law & Order fans past saw Wheatley disappearing successful a car going implicit a cliff, though his assemblage was ne'er recovered. So, is this the past we've seen of McDermott's villain?
"I ne'er accidental never," the histrion teased. "These shows past for 25 years, so, successful the adjacent 25 years, tin I extremity up backmost connected Organized Crime? You ne'er know."
But, since Remy and Richard both feature successful shows created by Wolf, McDermott joked that 1 time the 2 could adjacent meet—and Remy could "actually apprehension Richard Wheatley."
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"Wouldn't that beryllium amazing?" helium joked.
Season 4 of FBI: Most Wanted premieres September 20th connected CBS, and volition beryllium disposable to watercourse unrecorded and connected request connected Paramount+. Season 3 of Law & Order: Organized Crime premieres Sept. 22 connected NBC.
(E! and NBC are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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