Betty Gilpin Recalls Being Zipped Into A Body Bag On ‘Law & Order’ And Left There

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Betty Gilpin dropped by “The Tonight Show” on Thursday, April 21, where she revealed her long history as a guest star on various shows within the “Law & Order” franchise. “It’s kind of a rite of passage for New York actors to be on ‘Law & Order’,” host Jimmy Fallon told the “G.L.O.W.” star. “Yeah, for like the first couple years of my career, it was only theatre and ‘Law & Order’.

So I did an order of ‘SVU’, I was a pedophile with vocal fry,” she explained. “And I was a lesbian with acne on ‘the mothership,’ we called it, which is just the normal ‘Law & Order’.” READ MORE: Betty Gilpin Tapped To Play Anna Nicole Smith In New Biopic On The Model’s Final Days Fallon was curious to know if she ever played a “dead body” on one of the “Law & Order” shows, and Gilpin confirmed that she had, in an episode of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”. “For the dead body, I was Fran Drescher‘s daughter, which is an honour, but I don’t know about that casting,” she said. “Fans will know, I was found naked in an oil drum.

Vincent D’Onofrio, like, found my naked dead body.” However, her big scene in the show didn’t unfold quite as planned. READ MORE: ‘GLOW’ Star Betty Gilpin Says Goodbye To Cancelled Show In Emotional Eulogy “This is my first job ever,” she shared. “And I remember them zipping up the body bag.

Vincent D’Onofrio had like, a grumbly scene over my body bag. And I just had to sort of be in there. And then they called cut.” Gilpin then heard an announcement that the crew was breaking for lunch, and heard footsteps walking away — all while she was zipped up inside the body bag. “And then 10 seconds goes by and I hear one far-away P.A.