Tony Goldwyn, Sam Waterston. Getty Photos (2)
Legislation & Order is coming into a brand new period with Tony Goldwyn on the helm, and he’s conscious of how large the function is after Sam Waterston’s departure.
“Some very massive footwear to fill!” Goldwyn, 63, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, February 21, sharing an article about his casting for the rest of season 23.
The Scandal alum continued: “First episode completed as DA Nicholas Baxter. Because of the L&O fam for being so welcoming! #LawAndOrder @nbc @wolfentertainment.”
Goldwyn shared two photographs from set, together with a gaggle shot with Reid Scott and Mehcad Brooks, who play detectives Vincent Riley and Jalen Shaw, respectively, on the procedural.
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Goldwyn, who joins the sequence as district lawyer Nicholas Baxter on Thursday, March 16, additionally posted a snap of himself sitting in a Legislation & Order director’s chair. His again is turned the digital camera as he seemingly soaks in his upcoming function.
Goldwyn’s addition to the Legislation & Order household comes within the wake of Waterston’s exit on this week’s season 23 episode. Waterston initially joined the Dick Wolf sequence as Govt ADA Jack McCoy throughout season 5 in 1994. (The present premiered in 1990.)
Sam Waterston on ‘Legislation & Order’. NBC
When the sequence went off the air in 2010 after 20 seasons, Waterston’s character had been upgraded to DA. Legislation & Order was revived in 2022 and Waterston, 83, returned to assist launch it again to life.
NBC introduced earlier this month month that Waterston is stepping down as his beloved character on Thursday, February 22. Goldwyn was named as his substitute. “It’s a pleasure to speak straight like this to the spine of Legislation & Order’s completely wonderful viewers. The time has come for me to maneuver on and take Jack McCoy with me,” Waterston mentioned in a press release through Wolf Leisure in January. “There’s disappointment in leaving, however I’m simply too interested in what’s subsequent.”
He added: “An actor doesn’t need to let himself get too snug. I’m extra grateful to you than I can say. L&O’s persevering with and wonderful future, together with its astounding come-back, is all because of you and to Dick Wolf, however for whose imaginative and prescient, endurance, perseverance, and distinctive mixture of artistic and enterprise abilities, none of this could have occurred. I really feel very blessed. I hope to see you all on the flip facet.”
Brooks, who has labored with Waterston since season 21, gushed over the actor on Wednesday, because the group ready to say goodbye on display the next day.
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“To Sam Waterston, I might say, I hope I’m half the person he’s after I develop up. He’s an absolute legend,” Brooks, 43, mentioned in an Instagram video shared through NBC Legislation & Order’s official account. “We’re going to actually miss him. His power is infectious, in one of the simplest ways doable.”
Followers of the flagship authorized drama have already seen one casting shakeup this season after Jeffrey Donovan confirmed in November 2023 that he wouldn’t be again for season 23. Donovan, 55, performed Detective Frank Cosgrove starting in season 21.
Veep alum Scott, 46, changed Donovan within the season 23 premiere in January. “So excited to hitch the group on the 2-7!” Scott wrote through Instagram final month.
Legislation & Order airs on NBC Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
