Dramatic Exits, a Marathon Run and That Sound Defined: 30 Stunning Secrets and techniques About Legislation & Order

Elisabeth Röhm, who performed A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn for 3 and a half seasons, stated she felt her altruistic, at occasions a bit naïve (however nonetheless sharp) character mirrored her personal values. “In my coronary heart there’s this perception that individuals are good, not that individuals who do unhealthy issues aren’t unhealthy, however that the spirit of human beings generally—that there is hope for us,” the actress informed the Lengthy Island Weekly in Could. “I believe that Serena had that idealism and I do too.”

The idealism, at the least, could have been her undoing, Department disagreeing with Southerlyn’s method to a case and firing her. To which her memorable reply, out of nowhere, was “Is that this as a result of I am a lesbian?” The reply was no, however it was a head-scratcher as a result of Serena’s private life had by no means come up. (It ranked 25th on TV Land’s High 100 Most Surprising Moments in TV Historical past.)

Let’s simply say, Röhm’s time on set (“my colleagues had been Jerry Orbach and Sam Waterston, I imply, these are actual actors”) sounds extra pleasurable than Southerlyn’s time within the DA’s Workplace.

“On my final day of labor, Sam Waterston wrote a speech,” recalled Röhm, whose latest work contains Jane the Virgin and Bombshell. “He stated, I got here into Legislation & Order with a ‘blow torch of happiness,’ and I’ve a child-like enthusiasm for all times. I wish to have enjoyable. I wish to deal with individuals kindly. I wish to make an influence. I wish to make a distinction.”

She continued, “And I believe that I do have that child-like enthusiasm and idealism, and perception in humanity. I am by no means shocked when individuals are sort as a result of I do know inside us is all this hope and want to evolve and to be comfortable. That does not imply that there aren’t prison minds, degradation, despair, poverty and violence.”