Thanks to Jeffrey Tambor's recommendation, Bradley Whitford appeared in eight episodes of "Transparent" between 2014 and 2019. There, he met Amy Landecker, who starred as Sarah Pfefferman, and the couple tied the knot in 2019. Since then, the pair has collaborated both on- and off-screen, whether in projects like "The Handmaid's Tale" or in consulting one another on scripts and auditions.
"I totally trust his opinion," Landecker told The Hollywood Reporter at the 2022 Emmy Awards. "I love reading [scripts] with him. I was in a little bit of an episode of 'Handmaid's Tale' that he directed this year, and I got to watch him direct himself...He was open to me giving my opinion, which is really nice...I trust him 100 million percent."
Whitford still credits "Law & Order" with bringing the two together, and in 2023, he returned to "SVU" for the episode "King of the Moon." Whitford plays Pence Humphreys, a man who is struggling with dementia. The emotional performance paid tribute to his late mother, who similarly suffered from cognitive decline.
"This show is, you know, it's beloved," he told Entertainment Tonight. "It's amazing when you do an episode of this when you realize the sort of fervent nature of the fandom out there."
