Bradley Whitford Talks Risky 'Law & Order: SVU' Episode and 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 6 (Exclusive)

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Bradley Whitford made his second appearance on. This time, however, star was playing a very different character: Pence Humphreys, a neurologist with early onset dementia who confesses to a murder in a rare departure for the series, with the episode directed by star Mariska Hargitay showing flashbacks of his life and how his memories have been muddled in the years since.Familiar with his work, Olivia Benson (Hargitay) is immediately suspicious of his confession and lends a hand in the investigation only to learn that, in the end, the professor was not responsible for the rape and murder of his wife, Winnie (Nancy Travis).

The episode then ends on an unexpected note, with Olivia reading Pence's childhood story as the sequence shows him appearing as the king on the moon and reliving some of his other memories.

After getting the part, Whitford realized how much he «wanted to do it justice,» he says. «It scared me in a way. And I felt like Mariska was taking a risk and the show was taking a risk.

And that kind of challenge is really energizing.» When it comes to the final scene, he was «thrilled to hear» that it made the final cut. «Because when you're shooting it, you don't even know if the powers that be are gonna look at this and go, 'This is not our show,'» Whitford says.