'Candy' Stars Pablo Schreiber and Raúl Esparza Gush About Their 'SVU' Reunion (Exclusive)

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fans are about to be treated to an unexpected reunion between Pablo Schreiber and Raúl Esparza. The two alumni will come face to face in court during the final episode of, Hulu’s true-crime series about the killing of Betty Gore starring Jessica Biel as accused ax murderer Candy Montgomery and Melanie Lynskey as her victim.   “Anybody who is an fan will enjoy his role because he definitely flashes it up at the end and brings some well-needed humor and spice to the last couple episodes,” Schreiber, who portrays Betty’s husband, Allan, says, referring to Esparza’s role as Candy’s eccentric (and somewhat ill-prepared) defense lawyer, Don Crowder.

After playing ADA Rafael Barba for six seasons on, Esparza left the role in 2018 during season 19. He has since starred on another Hulu true-crime series,, before returning to his roots as a lawyer on .

Of course, this time, Esparza is playing a defense attorney and a far wilder character than Barba. “What we get to do for a living is we get to play,” he says of the role, which “absolutely” flipped the script on his previous character. “It was fun to play a lawyer like this, that is nothing like Barba, who is just this sort of madcap, seat-of-his-pants wild man.” The same goes for Schreiber, who previously played William Lewis, a serial rapist and serial killer for an extended arc on season 15 of the NBC crime procedural. “He played such a psychopath on ,” Esparza recalls.

But on, Allan is a far more subdued character who has an affair with Candy before breaking things off to focus on his marriage to Betty.