Thomas Sadoski Looks Back on "Law & Order", "Criminal Intent"

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Memories From the Set: Thomas Sadoski on "Law & Order"


Season 16's 'Criminal Law' episode centered on a hit list featuring Jack McCoy's name — or, as Sadoski remembers it, "That's where I first met Sam Waterston, and I had to try to assassinate him on the steps of the courthouse."

During a break in the location shoot, Sadoski says, Waterston made a point of striking up a conversation with the young actor. "He just patted me on the shoulder and told me that I was doing a really good job, and he went back to his chair. It meant so much to me at the time."

Years later, when they both were cast in HBO's "The Newsroom", "I got to share that story with him," Sadoski says, chuckling. "Of course, he didn't remember, because he shot like 4 million of those episodes."

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Memories From the Set: Thomas Sadoski on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"


The Season 7 episode 'Lonelyville' included "one of the first sex scenes I ever had to do on camera," Sadoski says. As such, there was extensive discussion about the, ahem, blocking of the moment.

"What they asked us to be mindful of was not thrusting too much, because network TV audience couldn't handle too much thrusting," he remembers, laughing.

"It was my first coming face-to-face with… the absurdity of it all because here I am doing a show like Criminal Intent, where a Ukranian woman is brutally murdered at the beginning of the show, and then they're like, 'But don't thrust, because that offends people."

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