Did you know that Law and Order has been on the air for 20 years now? To celebrate this unique television milestone the Producers of Law and Order held a little Press Event for Online Media today. When I walked into the production offices I was attacked by a vicious dog, of course the owner was like don’t worry he wouldn’t hurt a fly. Yeah, right, this beast was ran up on me growling and everything. After that little bit of excitement the rest of the morning went really well, we did a really fun 50 minute Q and A with Jeremy Sisto, Anthony Anderson, and Alana De La Garza. The three had a really good time and it seemed like there was great chemistry with them. They were fun and down to earth, after the Q and A. I think today’s Q and A will be on the DVD they filmed it. The cast took us on a tour of the set, but there wasn’t much to see, we saw the interrogation room, but couldn’t see the squad room because they were filming. I will be posting the full audio from today’s Q and A sometime in the next few days – it’s very funny and a transcript wouldn’t do it justice. Be sure to check it out Friday nights at 8am. Pictures and Some things that I found out during the Q and A can be found after the break.
- It took years for Jeremy to live down his role in Clueless and he wasn’t happy about being typecast.
- Anthony Anderson has “people” and he keeps track of what people are saying about him and the show.
- The big news is Benjamin Bratt is returning to Law And Order for a story arc.
- Each character this season is getting a character specific Arc, Alana is excited about her upcoming back-story episode.
- Alana spent a few days with real female ADAs when she first started and found out the best weight loss program is to try a case.
- Jeremy recently started Twittering you can follow him at #JeremySisto
- Jeremy has a man crush on the guys from Mad Men.
- None of them are happy about the Jay Leno situation.
- Alana likes to keep her men (the Anthony and Jeremy) in check, they wouldn’t be able to function without her.
- When the three of them walk down the street, Anthony is the one who holds court, Kangaroo Jack!
- Anthony didn’t know that the Clueless song was Rolling With the Homies (Funny moment). Now I have to watch Clueless again this weekend.
- There’s a funny Pigeon reference coming up where Anthony improved a line about the “Bird singing.”
- Everyone said that they are completely different from their character.
- While the writers take stuff from the headlines, there have been occasions when they’ve been ahead of the curve. For instance here in NY/NJ the big story was a Woman who drove drunk with 8 kids in the car and crashed. L & O was filming an episode with this theme on the day this happened.
- Anthony has no fear of losing his job because he’s friends with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (he’s kidding…)
- In addition to not liking other people’s bad kids, I think I’m coming around to not liking other people’s bad dogs.
- Law and Order is filmed at New York’s Chelsea Piers and they charge $52 a day to park (Luckily L & O validated)! It’s a beautiful location right on the Hudson River with a Gym, Bowling Alley, Golf Course, Restaurants and other fun stuff. It’s open to the public but was empty while we were there.
- Once again the iPhone’s lack of multi-tasking ability was annoying, I twittered from the set (twitter.com/eclipsemagazine) but I couldn’t record the interview and tweet at the same time, very annoying.
- 90 Percent of New York’s Broadway actors have appeared in at least one episode of Law and Order
- There’s not much cast competition between the various Law and Orders.
- Law and Order Criminal Intent is also filmed in the same facilities.
- This was one of the better organized set visits. Only a 15 minute delay, the only drawback was there wasn’t much to actually see since so much of the show is filmed on location.
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