‘Law & Order: SVU’s Kevin Kane on Being Directed by Mariska Hargitay

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The Big Picture Many detectives have worked in the 16th Precinct over the years. From staples who have been there since the beginning like Olivia Benson and Fin Tutuola ; to favorites like Elliot Stabler and Amanda Rollins ; and even those who were there a short but sweet time like Kat Tamin and Grace Muncy . In all the years since, a number of people have joined the elite squad in its two and a half decades on air, but one of the most delightful is, no doubt, Terry “Moneybags” Bruno.

KEVIN KANE: It felt amazing and really unexpected. I had done an episode that Mariska directed a few years before, and I was prepping our series Life & Beth. I was on a director scout in New Orleans, and they called me like, “What do you think about coming in to do this role?” And I was like "yes" immediately. I was very surprised. I've been on the show a bunch over the years, and I know what it means just being a New York actor. There's something really special about it.

It's a toss of the coin. I could say, with all this money, he could be living this sweet, sweet life, or the money could end up ending this thing short and not making it to 25 more. A quick injection of cash goes either way. You know who the best person to ask would be? Octavio Pisano. Because he files them — he has a list. With me, I'm just happy to be their guest star, so I will say the line until Mariska or somebody else is like, “What does this mean? Maybe we should change this a little bit.” There were some where, when I really thought about it, I was like, “Did I really say that?” There was one last season that was a play on the word flabbergasted. “My gobs are smacked and my gasts are flabbered.

You know, it’s funny — they put these things in the description, and you just kinda have to figure them out. I’m like, “This is the only woman who believed in me. That's why I'm here. And now I'm questioning her?” But I think there are little subtle things they were putting in there. I remember in the first episode, she started saying too much in front of Maddie's mother, and I would just gently touch her hand to remind her, “Stop talking.

I kind of fell into comedy by accident. I trained as an actor with Amy Schumer and these other actors. We started a theater company, and we were doing all of these really serious plays. And we would have this comedy fundraiser that would pay for the serious plays we wanted to do, and the comedy fundraiser kind of took off. They wanted a pilot from Amy, so she pitched the sketch show, which is what we were doing on stage to raise money for dark, serious dramas.

 

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