From ScrippsNews
This time Stevens gets to be the killer
By TERRY MORROW
Scripps Howard News Service
Monday, November 12, 2007
Excerpt:
"Even before Fisher Stevens read the script for "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (airing 10 p.m., ET/PT Thursday, USA), he was hoping he'd be the killer.
"Whenever you're the killer, you get that really, really meaty scene," he says. "Killers always get that really good scene at the end."
In Thursday's episode, Stevens plays a literary agent who is a shark. He has a history of abusing women and paying them off to keep silent. He plays a despicable type who has all eyes on him.
"He's super smart but also super ambitious and those (types) are scary people," Stevens says.
After an acquaintance of his is brutalized and then shot, he is among the prime suspects. Of course there are other suspects, too -- veteran character actor Peter Coyote plays a down-on-his-luck writer who has a motivation as well..."
And
""It's a little bit like doing theater," he says, "and you see the actors on the show doing theater all the time so that's kind of great."
And
'"It's high-quality TV. You know the scripts are really good," he says. "This is the kind of (material) actors look for, especially when they are doing series TV."'
And
"By cable TV's more meager ratings standards, "Criminal Intent" has held its own, emerging as one of USA's most-watched shows this fall. The series is averaging 4 million viewers weekly..."
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