'Law & Order': Hugh Dancy on Price's Big Case and Trying to Get Claire Danes to Guest Star (Exclusive)
etonline.comand as well as recurring appearances on and, Hugh Dancy is now part of the ensemble of the revived series. Appearing alongside Camryn Manheim, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks and Odelya Halevi, Dancy plays Executive Assistant District Attorney Nolan Price, working under District Attorney Jack McCoy (with Sam Waterston reprising the longtime role).
What sets Price apart from other district attorney characters that have appeared on the long-running franchise is the fact that he is a former defense attorney with a hard anti-death penalty stance who also volunteered for the Innocence Project before being hired by the prosecution. «It's quite common for people to go from the world of prosecuting to the world of defense law because, bluntly, you get paid more for being a defense attorney,» Dancy says. «So, it's very uncommon to go the other way around, right?
When you do go from in that direction, it's on a matter of principle.» In the case of Price, Dancy says, «He decided that he was more invested in getting justice for victims than he was in defending accused people.»And his past, not only as a defense attorney but also his personal affairs, is at the center of the season 22 episode «Bias,» which puts Price at the center of the story when a friend and public defender named Rachel is murdered.
As a result, Price becomes too invested in finding the killer and bringing them to justice, even if it means compromising the case during trial — and exposing his own vulnerabilities along the way.
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