We spoke w/ Hugh Dancy about 'Law & Order' and Bryan Fuller's plans for 'Hannibal' Season 4.
Very few TV series have the staying power of NBC’s Law & Order, 22 seasons in and with a franchise that includes Special Victims Unit and Organized Crime. The series continues to follow its structure of examining the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders, while often exploring ripped-from-the-headlines cases.
You’ve previously done long-term TV projects, with Hannibal and The Path, but Law & Order seems very much like a different kind of thing, with the weekly cases, and all the courtroom and legal jargon. What made you want to join that universe? I haven’t seen every episode of every Law & Order, but I’ve seen a fair amount of Law & Order episodes across the Law & Order universe. And while you don’t necessarily realize you’re getting character development, you do, and it’s especially noticeable, if one of the characters goes away for a while and then comes back, and you feel their presence again because you’ve gotten to know them over time.
Both Will in Hannibal and Cal in The Path were a bit morally ambiguous. You were never really quite sure how far those characters would go, if they were pressed hard enough. Do you enjoy exploring characters that live in that ambiguity? And do you also feel like there is opportunity to find some of that in your Law & Order character, with the way that he reacts to specific cases?
DANCY: Yeah, I really do. For quite a long time, you register with one group of people for one thing, and then they’re oblivious to a lot of the other stuff. And then, with this other group over here, you register for this other thing, but they’re oblivious to the first thing. It’s a bit like laying down foundations. In the longer term, it’s felt like those are really great foundations to lay down, maybe most importantly for my own personal fulfillment.
DANCY: We may literally just age out of it and the people online will start to say, “Well, actually, that might be slightly gross.” The thing is that it ended, and this is a spoiler for anybody who hasn’t seen it, in a fairly conclusive fashion. Bryan’s description of a fourth season always allowed for an almost open-ended gap, so who knows?DANCY: Oh, I feel like somebody’s looking after those dogs. I’m not worried about the dogs.
Those characters were just always so fascinating to watch together because, with what the two of you brought to those roles, you never really quite knew what to expect, and you could feel that there were so many layers going on that weren’t necessarily being said.
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