Ice-T Says He Has Less 'Law and Order: SVU' Screen Time Because of Budget

No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you: Ice-T’s Fin Tutuloa has been pretty MIA on season 27 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — and there’s a reason. “It’s just basically business,” Ice-T, 67, explained to TMZ in an interview published on Monday, November 24, of his prolonged absence on the NBC series. “They brought Kelli [Giddish] back, and at the end of the day, they couldn’t really keep both of us on full-time, as far as budget-wise.” Ice-T noted that NBC producers gave him a heads-up about the casting change, and he signed off on more limited screen time. “They said, ‘OK, Ice, we’ll ha