Post by rambabe on Jun 6, 2009 15:36:05 GMT -5
RIP Ryan. I (we) will miss you. Mike Doyle talks about his character's demise, the SVU cast (he and Mariska are close friends), his future plans & projects and a tidbit about Mariska & Chris signing for Season 11. (Does he know something we don't?!) Thanks to SpyBarbie at svufans.net
www.tvguidemagazine.com/news/ohallorans-history-on-svu-1303.html
I will post a few excerpts from the article.
Law & Order: SVU Executive Producer Neal Baer told TV Guide Magazine back in February that “one of the SVU family” would die in the shows tenth season finale. Rumors flew that it was Munch (Richard Belzer) on his way out. However, the unlucky victim turns out to be forensics guy Ryan O’Halloran (Mike Doyle), who took a knife in the chest to earn his own chalk outline. TV Guide Magazine talked to the actor a few hours before his final SVU appearance.
When did you find out that you were slated to be killed?
Neal Baer gave me a call in the middle of April, a couple of weeks before we started shooting the finale. He assured me that it had nothing to do with me personally or my ability as an actor, but they were making some changes on the show next year. Neal wanted someone to die in the end and rather than peter my character out, he wanted to give him a proper send-off with a bang. Or a --what’s the sound of a knife? A shhh.
You were shanked. A term you might know from your days on Oz.
It was my first time being shanked, but I’ve been killed in many things that I’ve done over the years.. I was electrocuted on Oz, shot and blown up on a show called Smith. In a TV movie called The Loss of Innocence, I was shot on a deer hunt, mistaken for a deer by Rob Estes, who was sleeping with my wife, Jennie Garth. This is like the seventh time I’ve died in a decade. I’m starting to get a complex.
You were killed by one of your own. The creepy forensics wannabe Dale Stuckey. That’s cold.
Yes. I think people were either rooting for him to be killed or to be the killer. (laughs) Noel Fisher is a really incredible actor and he accomplishes that thing that good actors do. He makes people hate him.
www.tvguidemagazine.com/news/ohallorans-history-on-svu-1303.html
I will post a few excerpts from the article.
Law & Order: SVU Executive Producer Neal Baer told TV Guide Magazine back in February that “one of the SVU family” would die in the shows tenth season finale. Rumors flew that it was Munch (Richard Belzer) on his way out. However, the unlucky victim turns out to be forensics guy Ryan O’Halloran (Mike Doyle), who took a knife in the chest to earn his own chalk outline. TV Guide Magazine talked to the actor a few hours before his final SVU appearance.
When did you find out that you were slated to be killed?
Neal Baer gave me a call in the middle of April, a couple of weeks before we started shooting the finale. He assured me that it had nothing to do with me personally or my ability as an actor, but they were making some changes on the show next year. Neal wanted someone to die in the end and rather than peter my character out, he wanted to give him a proper send-off with a bang. Or a --what’s the sound of a knife? A shhh.
You were shanked. A term you might know from your days on Oz.
It was my first time being shanked, but I’ve been killed in many things that I’ve done over the years.. I was electrocuted on Oz, shot and blown up on a show called Smith. In a TV movie called The Loss of Innocence, I was shot on a deer hunt, mistaken for a deer by Rob Estes, who was sleeping with my wife, Jennie Garth. This is like the seventh time I’ve died in a decade. I’m starting to get a complex.
You were killed by one of your own. The creepy forensics wannabe Dale Stuckey. That’s cold.
Yes. I think people were either rooting for him to be killed or to be the killer. (laughs) Noel Fisher is a really incredible actor and he accomplishes that thing that good actors do. He makes people hate him.