Elaine Low Senior TV WriterIn playing online pharmaceutical titan and mob boss Richard Wheatley on NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” Dylan McDermott gets to go toe-to-toe with Christopher Meloni’s detective Elliot Stabler, chests puffed and expressions snarled.
The show marks a return for Meloni’s beloved “Law & Order” character and a return to the primetime procedural beat for McDermott, who enjoyed a long and Emmy-nominated run as defense attorney Bobby Donnell on ABC’s “The Practice.”McDermott, who has long had a fascination with organized crime, spoke with Variety ahead of Episode 2, “Not Your Father’s Organized Crime,” about the appeal of playing a kingpin, the unexpected intensity of the “Law & Order” fandom and filming in New.
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