Ice-T Was Asked If ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Will Go ‘Back to Normal’
A fan recently commented on a Law & Order: SVU set photo Ice-T posted on X asking, “Did they write SVU back to normal yet? It started to go woke.”
“What the F is woke?” Ice-T asked in a response that has gone viral, with more than 4.5 million impressions and counting. “Lol. Like I give a f***,” he added.
The rapper and actor, who is a self-proclaimed former pimp, has (somewhat ironically) played Special Victims Unit detective Odafin Tutuola on the NBC crime procedural series since 2000, making him the show’s longest-running male cast member. He’s currently in production on the show’s 26th season.
What the F is Woke? lol Like I give a Fuck. https://t.co/qVHbgWnhxD
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) August 27, 2024
Speaking to Variety about his role last year, Ice-T said, “I’m not a cop. I’m the furthest thing from a cop.” He also acknowledged that playing a law enforcement officer on television is more difficult these days.
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“People have said that our television shows are police propaganda, making the police look good. I understand that argument,” Ice-T said. “The cop I am on our show is an SVU detective… When I got the job at SVU, Dick Wolf said to me, ‘Ice, you don’t like cops, right?’ I told him that during my criminal past, I didn’t hate cops — they were my opponents. [He asked,] ‘But you admit we need them, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ So, Wolf told me to play the cop that we need. And if I play the cop that we need, I won’t have any problems with it.”
When not playing a cop Ice-T can be found out on the road with his metal band Body Count.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 26 is set to air on NBC this fall.
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