In the season 25 finale of Law & Order: SVU, Ice-T’s character receives a gunshot wound during a dangerous confrontation with an armed child.
Now the rapper has revealed how he found out his character would be shot once again.
Talking with PeopleThe actor, 66, revealed that his co-stars alerted him to the scene before he could finish reading the script.
‘I was reading the pages. She didn’t know. So I’m here in the script and everyone’s like, “They’re going to shoot you!” I say that?” That could be BAD,’ she recounted.
His character, Fin, fortunately survived. “I lived it,” she added.
Ice-T has shared his reaction to finding out his Law & Order: SVU character would be shot once again
Ice-T’s character was shot in the season 25 finale during a confrontation with a boy whose father was imprisoned by Fin.
Ice-T’s character was shot in the season 25 finale after a boy whose father was in jail confronted Fin outside his house.
The young man approaches Fin with a gun and the duo end up fighting over the gun before it ends up firing, hitting Ice-T’s character.
It’s not the first time Fin has been shot on the series: his character was also injured in season six.
The star of the hit series previously shared his concern about the possibility of him being killed.
During a recent interview with his co-star Mariska Hargitay, he admitted that he was eager to see if his character would survive season 25.
“So when I get the script, I just look at it to make sure I don’t get shot and bleed out. But I don’t know the arc of the season,” she said. Entertainment Weekly.
“He just wants to make sure he doesn’t die,” Mariska chimed in, laughing.
‘I want to make sure I don’t die. I got shot in this episode (in season 6) and as soon as I read it, I was like, Mariska. (Ice-T pretends to frantically flip through an imaginary script in front of him, all the way to the end.)’ Ice-T described.
‘I was like… “Oh wow… I’m alive!” So we just didn’t know how the deck would be shuffled at this point. Mariska is already out there, she doesn’t have a partner. Who is going to be her partner? she added.
The rapper has played Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola since 2000.
The rapper has played Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola since 2000.
Fin also appeared in the new spin-off, Law & Order: Organized Crime, which was recently renewed for a fifth season.
A spin-off of the original Law & Order series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit originally premiered in September 1999.
He stars alongside Mariska Hargitay in the long-running legal drama.
The Dick Wolf-created show, starring Mariska as Olivia Benson and Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola, has since surpassed its predecessor’s episode count and become one of the longest-running shows on the history of television.
The show’s newest season premiered in January, and NBC celebrated the show’s 25th anniversary by temporarily renaming Rockefeller Plaza Olivia Benson Plaza.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 25 was also the shortest in the show’s history, lasting only 13 episodes. It will return for a 26th season.
Law & Order ran for 20 seasons until its original cancellation, which took place in 2010. It was revived for a 21st season in 2021.
