LAW & ORDER: SVU: SCOOP ON AN ACTOR’S BIG PROMOTION Raul Esparza is entering the new season of Law & Order: SVU with a big badge of honor: series regular status. So what does that mean for his character, ADA Rafael Barba? According to Executive Producer Warren Leight, storylines! In one episode this season, for example, an old friend of Barba’s will come back into his life while running for mayor, and, as you might expect, it won’t be a seamless reunion. “The mayoral campaign in New York has been fraught with scandal, as you know, so we may touch on some of that this year,” says Leight. “We’ll get to know him a bit more and we’ll see him lobbying….he’s pretty…when the squad passes the baton over to the D.A.’s office, they know they have someone who can run as fast as they do, and that’s helpful to us in terms of storytelling.” Leight warns, though, “he’s not without flaws and we’ll be looking at them.” Meanwhile, look for Barba to also carry some guilt over the situation we left poor Olivia in. “I would say almost all the people on the squad have a degree of guilt about Lewis getting off,” Leight teases. “If he had been able to get the conviction on Lewis…they all feel like if they could have done something differently, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:32:47 +0000