Looks like the lawandordertv shows are finding Camryn Manheim a rather ... handy person to have around.
"It is meaningful to have been a part of , because I am fluent in sign language and have been an advocate for disabilities for a long time," she tells TODAY.com."One thing that’s come up recently is how much the public learns from shows like 'L&O' and 'The Practice'; just how important it is for our producers and showrunners to get the procedure right."
"I’m going to name drop," she chuckles."I was having lunch with Maria Bello and Mariska Hargitay, and Mariska mentioned they were having an upcoming episode with deaf people. I said, 'I’m fluent in sign language,' and she picked up a phone and all of a sudden I’m crossing over. It happened that quickly."
Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson and Camryn Manheim as Lt. Kate Dixon in the Jan. 5 "SVU" episode "Jumped In.""We wanted to show that it’s not OK to pull a detective from another precinct and get them to interpret," she says."I made it clear to the writers, and they were fantastic about incorporating that ...
"They were doing TikTok videos watching me doing the signing and whether I did it right or not," says Manheim, 61."They’re very vocal when they’re represented on television. We have so few opportunities to get it right, so it’s important to teach people the procedure about what to accept when they are in this scenario.", who plays Odafin Tutuola on"SVU."
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