World, meet my first cover story.
Thank you to the entire team at
@EW
for making my lil big dreams come true.
@FINALLEVEL
and Mariska, you’ll always be my favorite partners in crime.
You’ll always be my favorite everything.
“Yeah it was a legit photo, it wasn’t staged. Her feet were killing her. I knew what she felt like cause my foot was killing me, and I was like yeah c’mon jump on my back, and I just carried her across the street. She didn’t wanna step on any glass.”
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Can you have the pinnacle of your career at 22? Asking for myself because I’m pretty sure this is it? (she’s so beautiful and so perfect and so ridiculously kind and so insanely eloquent and no I’m never ever ever getting over this as long as I live)
To every man Olivia Benson works with confessing their undying love for her at one point or another during this franchise… you are not special I would do the same
I’m just as speechless now as I was the day 15-year-old me stepped foot in NYC for the first time & found herself in a dream come true on the
@TODAYshow
. I’m proud as a peacock🦚 to share that I’m going to be a TODAY intern this summer
@SavannahGuthrie
here I come!
#internatNBCU
You know, you really can do anything you want. I’m learning there is no such thing as a dream too big. Here’s me standing in the middle of the SVU squad room last month with the cheesiest smile on my face because I had the crazy chance to be an extra for tonight’s episode🤍
“Yeah it was a legit photo, it wasn’t staged. Her feet were killing her. I knew what she felt like cause my foot was killing me, and I was like yeah c’mon jump on my back, and I just carried her across the street. She didn’t wanna step on any glass.”
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"She's fearless, without the bravado of the warrior stance, but always with the open arms, the open heart." ♥️ Chris Meloni introduced Mariska Hargitay at the
#GlamourWOTY2021
and his heartwarming speech is here:
We talked all things Mom— including Bradley’s who would’ve turned 108 this week, and, yes, that notable line about somebody else’s mom, too
@lawandordertv
“I used to think that everyone was better than me, and now, I know what I bring to the table”
-MH
I’m elated to say I’ve accepted a new job as an Entertainment Reporter+Writer with People Magazine. From the bottom of my joyful heart, thank you
@people
for the seat at the table✨
It’s here it’s here! Thank you to Dann for being so, so wonderful.
I can’t even tweet it out without including some of my favorite bits that didn’t make it in. Enjoy it all!!
“I thought it was kind of weird that the fans wanted him to hook up when his wife was still alive—“
Me: She’s not anymore!
✨“Yeah she CONVENIENTLY got killed” ✨
You’ll only ever have one, very first interview at People Magazine. This just so happened to be mine.
@KelliGiddish
, thank you for the last 12 seasons as Amanda Rollins. You’re a gem, and I adore you, and you make me believe that some things really are meant to be 🤍
Ok so my fave EO question was cut but please scream with me. When asked who would win the SVU squad room betting pool on Benson and Stabler— Cragen, Munch or Finn, Dann didn’t miss a beat when he answered ROLLINS
It’s perhaps the biggest investigation of all. Do detectives date? (I was proud of myself for that one guys, I won’t lie). Where are my
#Joleen
fans at?
A fun bit that didn’t make the cut, because you guys know I asked him about the squad room betting pool: “yeah I think Amanda would probably beat me because I’m really lost— I thought they would’ve hooked up by now.” 1/2
On filming Wildlife (he remembered the episode name) with Kimba (whose name he also remembered)
“somewhere I have a picture, but I had to have play dates with that little monkey because I had to save him out of the basketball, remember?
And at the very beginning of that I see that they’re setting up that Stabler’s in trouble and they’re having an argument at 1PP and all of that, and then you catch them later. And, to me, there’s something special but still kind of unspoken”
I don’t think I ended up in a single shot in the whole show, but let me tell you, it doesn’t matter— because I saw the inside of Captain Olivia Benson’s office, & I said hi to Molly Burnett, & Peter Scanavino followed me down the hallway, & I watched Kelli Giddish run her lines
On whether or not Cragen wants to see El and Liv end up together: “It feels like okay, it’s different now and there is something there. But you know I started watching to follow on organized crime the start of the story arc with Donnelly and the brotherhood cop gang and all this
While playing Captain Olivia Benson for over two decades, Hargitay has had plenty of time to consider what the perfect end to Benson's story might be.
#LawandOrder
#SVU
He was a white faced baby gibbon, so we had to have play date so he would trust me. And his favorite treats were little Swedish Fish. And the funny part was then when he did something good, I could give him one of those little fish.”
Bc Ice said “I remember you! Welcome to the show, Alex!” & because between every take, he would yell over funny things to me from Fin’s desk. Bc I watched Mariska Hargitay light up like the sunshine she is & screech “WAIT, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!” upon seeing ME in HER squad room
Let us not forget I also am the proud owner of a clown suit that I don every Thursday. No I haven’t seen it, but Dann is the greatest!! I tried to get as much tea for us as humanly possible. Please stand by while my editor deals with the aftermath
@andylines
Hi Andy! This is a beautiful video. Would you be willing to grant E! News permission to share it across our partners and platforms with credit to you? Let me know. Thank you so much!
DF: “And I’m gonna go with her also because I’ve just been catching up on some of this stuff, and so I didn’t even know she was with Carisi. I see things happening that I didn’t see coming! So, I think she would be more in tune with that”
Fun fact: when asked what he could learn at an
#OrganizedCrime
convention,
@mykeltiwmson
answered how to dress from
@DylanMcDermott
and wonderful acting secrets from
@Chris_Meloni
🤫
Thanks for hanging, Mykelti. He’ll be on your TVs tonight as Preston Webb at 10 PM!!!
(So, in the off chance anyone is watching NBC at 9 pm tonight and should spot a short girl in a plum cardigan trying to just simply keep her cool, let me know. And even if we don’t see her, just know that somewhere out there, there’s a clerk at the 1-6 living her dream.
Ok so my fave EO question was cut but please scream with me. When asked who would win the SVU squad room betting pool on Benson and Stabler— Cragen, Munch or Finn, Dann didn’t miss a beat when he answered ROLLINS
Clearly me not asking when this scene was going to happen in the sequence of this episode was a mistake. The END???? Where’s that meme of the Simpson guy on the bus chuckling that he’s in danger
@mc_suhocki
Me: “24 years in, you’re almost at a quarter of a century here—”
Her: “No, I’m 24 years OLD. People don’t realize how young I am”
You: *Snaps this photo*
Anyone in the mood for an
#organizedcrime
sneak peek?
@BrentAntonello
I’m still waiting to hear if there have been any pranks on set, by the way. You just let me know 📞