Alec Baldwin is putting a twist on his rocky relationship with the media – he is playing a meddling newspaperman on Law & Order.

Baldwin, 55, will guest star on the NBC drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a New York columnist who questions the motives of police investigating a rape case as a possible hate crime.

The episode, directed by series star Mariska Hargitay, will be shown on March 19.

NBC says Hargitay’s character, Sergeant Olivia Benson, goes “head to head” with the writer played by Baldwin when his reporting interferes with the investigation.

Baldwin has had well-documented run-ins with photographers and said in an article for New York Magazine that he despises the media and intends to reclaim his privacy.

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