Dylan McDermott Doesn’t Think It’s ’Too Soon’ to Join ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ After ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’: ‘I Relish in It’

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Emily Longeretta Dylan McDermott is officially done with Richard Wheatley — whether fans like it or not. During a conversation with press on Wednesday, the actor opened up about making the move from “Law & Order: Organized Crime” to “FBI: Most Wanted.” While he played the villain in the NBC series, he’s taking on the role of Special Agent Remy Scott in the CBS drama.“I think it’s really an interesting process because I’ve been reading comments online and stuff that people have been saying, ‘Oh, it’s it’s too soon.

He’s Richard Wheatley. He’s a bad guy,'” McDermott said. “I relish in it because I think it’s amazing that people actually believe that’s the character, that I’m him.

They haven’t even seen the episodes by the way! So I just love that because now they’re gonna see me in a completely different light.” He added that he was drawn to the “wildly different” role.“I knew instinctively that I had been playing some questionable people along the way.

Now it was time to play someone good again. And Remy Scott is that character,” he continued. “I was eager to shed the bad guy.