![]() I think I’m more relaxed now, because what Kelli said, coming from movies, you got ninety minutes to put it out there so you’re doing some super acting. ![]() So I had already been in it, but I just thought to get better and better and better and better. I mean you have to remember, by the time I’ve done Law & Order, I’ve done fifty movies. Ice-T: I was still fucking incredible then. And when you’re doing a show that’s really a 23 hour movie, you can’t just be on it at all times.ĭo you ever look back at your earlier episodes? Ice-T: So until then, you just have to lay back and be a cop until that moment happens. I totally believe in conserving your energy because I’ve always said “Kelli, let’s conserve your energy because in a minute, or any moment, they’re going to write a scene that’s going to make you act your fucking ass off.” It’s not like every show I have to create another character. So I can just apply to different scripts this character who Fin is and everybody knows where he stands. Ice-T: Yeah, Chicago Med and also it comes easier because every day, I’m going to be me. and Chicago Fire or “Chicago MD” or whatever it’s called. This is something we can rely on being there, it’s a good thing. Like if it’s not a hit right off the bat, then you’re sunk and you’re done and then it’s over next thing. And not many people have that opportunity especially in a climate of TV now. It’s like “Oh God, I had a bad day and that take-“We get to redeem ourselves or work on ourselves every single day coming to work. Because I’ve flown a lot-some of the shows I’ve done were in Dallas and Atlanta respectively and while I loved doing that in my twenties, it’s nice to have one character-it’s not like a film where if you mess up, it’s their perpetuity. When you’re not working, you’re in New York. Ice-T: But still, New York, New Jersey, you can’t beat this. The show was filmed in New Jersey though. Ice-T: This show could be in bum-fuck Egypt too and you’d be forced to live there. We get to live in New York and do a show that doesn’t suck. ![]() KG: Well I was going to say just being an actor, it’s not like we have to live or work and move our whole lives to Dallas or Atlanta or Vancouver. Just having over twenty years of almost consistently acting. Like being able to act every day? It can’t do anything but help so I think of being on SVU is like me going to the Harvard of acting. As far as doing the job, how has it molded me? I think it’s made me a better actor. It’s a great thing you know? I don’t know when I was really young I might have liked it, it might have been too stagnant for me, but at this time in my life, I don’t mind being able to go home every night to the same place and have a home. You know, for a long time, being a musician and having to travel all over the world, it’s being able to act in one place. Yoba is the only main cast member to appear in all four seasons.Ice-T: How does it mold me as a person? It’s the most, how would I say? Consistent job I’ve had? It’s the most normal, like have a place you live, go to work, part of that. The original series rebooted itself in the fourth and final season with a largely new cast joining Yoba and Season 2 addition Lauren Velez as the other series regulars exited. It was the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the starring roles. It starred Malik Yoba and Michael DeLorenzo as two undercover detectives in New York City’s Fourth Precinct. ![]() The pilot will begin filming in early March in New York.Ĭreated by Wolf and Kevin Arkadie, New York Undercover aired on Fox for four seasons, between 1994-98. Wolf, Watkins and Hemingway executive produce with Wolf Films’ Arthur Forney and Peter Jankowski. It will follow detectives Nat Gilmore and Melissa Ortiz as they investigate the city’s most dangerous criminals from Harlem to Battery Park. New York Undercover picks up 20 years after the end of the original series that changed the face of TV cop dramas. ![]() Anthony Hemingway (Underground, American Crime Story) will direct the pilot written by Watkins based on a story by Wolf and Watkins. ![]()
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