page_title: Lost Reputation
section_title: Guest star casting
hierarchical_section_title: Lost Reputation / Production / Guest star casting
caption_attribution_description: English: Adam Baldwin at the 2011 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona.
context_page_description: "Lost Reputation" is the fourteenth season premiere of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the 296th overall episode. It originally aired on the NBC on September 26, 2012. In the episode, the Special Victims Unit detectives try to stop a growing scandal when Captain Cragen is arrested for the murder of an escort, Carissa Gibson. Meanwhile, Detective Nick Amaro has to juggle trying to solve the case against Cragen without losing his family in the process.
  The episode was written by show runner/executive producer Warren Leight and Julie Martin and was directed by Michael Slovis. The episode picks up where the thirteenth season ended with "Rhodium Nights", Cragen waking up next to a dead escort and the fallout from that, majority of the guest stars from "Rhodium Nights" appearing in "Lost Reputation".
  "Lost Reputation" earned generally positive reviews, critics praising the continuation of the storyline, with Paget Brewster's and Adam Baldwin's guest appearances, as well as praising stars Mariska Hargitay and Danny Pino.
context_section_description: Including the guest stars from "Rhodium Nights", Paget Brewster was announced as the first guest star of the fourteenth season, portraying Bureau Chief ADA Paula Foster, of the Public Integrity Unit in the District Attorney's office. Her character is being assigned to the case against Captain Cragen (Dann Florek), who is suspected of murder after Cragen woke up with a dead prostitute (Pippa Black) in his bed. Brewster has guest starred on SVU before, in the eighth season episode, "Scheherazade", as the daughter of an elderly dying man, (Brian Dennehy) believed to be a murderer.
  Brewster said after getting the role, "I was so crazy flattered when they offered me this part, and I didn't find out until after I took the role that the special two episode premiere of SVU [airing from 9/8c to 11/10c] was going to bump against Criminal Minds, which it never does!" Brewster said of moving on from Criminal Minds, "[...] last year I decided that I wanted to challenge myself, and doing these episodes of Law & Order: SVU has proven me right." Brewster noted of her character, BC ADA Foster, "I'm despised by the detectives," she says with a laugh, adding "I've been able to work with everybody, but especially with Mariska Hargitay!" Brewster added that she would be praying to the "Nielsen gods" on Sept. 26. "I'm so torn because I'm such a fan of both shows," she says. "I just hope both shows get great ratings!"
  On September 25, 2012, Brewster told TV Guide that prior to accepting the SVU role, she initially wanted to do comedy, Criminal Minds fans questioning her jump to SVU, "Yeah, people do think it's similar and that's OK. I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks," Brewster continued, "Of course, I do [care]. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do." When her Criminal Minds contract was up she announced she was leaving the show, Brewster saying, "I told my agent and manager, 'Listen, tell me everything that you hear about, but basically I want to do comedy." So when she expressed interest in the offer from SVU, "They called me and they said, 'Are you sure you want to do a law enforcement show?' I asked, 'Do I have scenes with Mariska [Hargitay]?' They said, 'Most of your scenes are with Mariska.' I said, 'I want it. I totally want it.'"
  Brewster said of her first guest stint on SVU back in the eighth season, that the role was an "overwhelming" experience. "It was intimidating and challenging and I was afraid that I would do a bad job and it was a character I've never played before. That was exactly the terrifying, exciting learning experience that I wanted when I left Criminal Minds," she says. "I'm not saying anything to denigrate Criminal Minds; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be." Brewster told The Hollywood Reporter the next day, that she couldn't pass up the SVU gig. "You just don't say no to SVU. Who would? It's pretty much the only cop show that I would do." Warren Leight said to THR about Paget possibly returning to the series throughout the fourteenth season, "There's a potential for [Paget to return beyond the season premiere], but it would be intricate. I'll put it that way," Leight noting Brewster's complex role. "The character that we are asking her to play is not just an exposition carrier; there are a lot of layers."
  Brewster said of the comparisons to SVU and Criminal Minds, "They're both extremely different shows and different behind the scenes as well," Brewster noted. "Playing Prentiss for six and a half years on Criminal Minds, at a certain point you're so familiar with the rhythms that you can reach a point where you get lazy. I'm afraid I did that. On SVU, it was actually absolutely terrifying. I felt that the bar was higher." She continued, "[SVU] is intimidat
caption: Adam Baldwin (pictured) portrays the interim commanding officer, Captain Steven Harris.
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