Law & Order : Jamie Gray Hyder Interview
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Law & Order: SVU - Season 22 Premiere (NBC) Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Jamie Gray Hyder.
The season is set to air during the 2020–2021 television season. The season will be produced by Wolf Films and Universal Television; the showrunner is Warren Leight. The season is set to premiere on November 12, 2020.
The twenty-second season is expected to cover the pandemic, which led to reports of an increase in domestic abuse in New York. "We're going to reflect New York in the pandemic" and "what happens to someone who is sexually assaulted during the height of the coronavirus outbreak", said showrunner/executive producer Leight.The pandemic had a direct impact on the cast and crew, as the show lost a member of the costume department, Josh Wallwork, who died at age 45 of complications due to COVID-19.
Leight told TV Insider that in the sixth months that the series had last filmed (March 2020), New York City is "a city that has lost faith in the NYPD and the DA's office", and that the season premiere episode starts with an assault in Central Park that "quickly turns into a racially volatile situation, and [the unit] confronts how their own racial bias affects their judgment". After a case about domestic violence, the episode "Remember Me in Quarantine" turns to what happens after extended social isolation and quarantine due to COVID-19 — or, Leight said, "how close people get to their breaking points". He also told TV Insider "we hope to bring back some [more] past regulars this season", in addition to Christopher Meloni's guest return later in the season.
The series is also expected to cover the rise in police brutality towards African Americans, namely the death of George Floyd (where an officer held his knee to Floyd's neck for over eight minutes and he subsequently died) and the global protests that followed after his death. Leight weighed in back in June 2020, that "we will find our way in to tell the story. Presumably our cops will still be trying to do the right thing but it's going to be harder for them and they're going to understand why it's hard for them". Co-star Ice-T also weighed in, "This one was just too brutal. This is what they call a tipping point. This is a point where people go, 'Enough!' This is a battle for humanity and human rights, it's not black and white people fighting, you know". According to Ice-T, the SVU writers have been "touched by this" incident and he thinks their emotional connection to it "is going to show up in their writing".
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The season is set to air during the 2020–2021 television season. The season will be produced by Wolf Films and Universal Television; the showrunner is Warren Leight. The season is set to premiere on November 12, 2020.
The twenty-second season is expected to cover the pandemic, which led to reports of an increase in domestic abuse in New York. "We're going to reflect New York in the pandemic" and "what happens to someone who is sexually assaulted during the height of the coronavirus outbreak", said showrunner/executive producer Leight.The pandemic had a direct impact on the cast and crew, as the show lost a member of the costume department, Josh Wallwork, who died at age 45 of complications due to COVID-19.
Leight told TV Insider that in the sixth months that the series had last filmed (March 2020), New York City is "a city that has lost faith in the NYPD and the DA's office", and that the season premiere episode starts with an assault in Central Park that "quickly turns into a racially volatile situation, and [the unit] confronts how their own racial bias affects their judgment". After a case about domestic violence, the episode "Remember Me in Quarantine" turns to what happens after extended social isolation and quarantine due to COVID-19 — or, Leight said, "how close people get to their breaking points". He also told TV Insider "we hope to bring back some [more] past regulars this season", in addition to Christopher Meloni's guest return later in the season.
The series is also expected to cover the rise in police brutality towards African Americans, namely the death of George Floyd (where an officer held his knee to Floyd's neck for over eight minutes and he subsequently died) and the global protests that followed after his death. Leight weighed in back in June 2020, that "we will find our way in to tell the story. Presumably our cops will still be trying to do the right thing but it's going to be harder for them and they're going to understand why it's hard for them". Co-star Ice-T also weighed in, "This one was just too brutal. This is what they call a tipping point. This is a point where people go, 'Enough!' This is a battle for humanity and human rights, it's not black and white people fighting, you know". According to Ice-T, the SVU writers have been "touched by this" incident and he thinks their emotional connection to it "is going to show up in their writing".
Education: Justice High School, University of Georgia
Post-Production: https://www.lainvoices.world
https://www.fiverr.com/share/1K6oop