There’s one position all the most important stars wish to painting on Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, in accordance with star and govt producer Mariska Hargitay.
The actress made an look on Late Evening With Seth Meyers forward of the SVU season 26 premiere on Thursday. Whereas talking with the host, she revealed that A-listers who wish to visitor star on the long-running present all wish to play useless.
“All of the well-known individuals, you already know what they need? To be a useless physique,” she advised Seth Meyers. “It’s so bizarre.”
Hargitay recalled she lately spoke to a “massive supermodel,” who she wouldn’t identify however famous she was “one of many greats,” who needed to solely painting a useless particular person, regardless of the SVU writers having a extra elaborate position for her.
“I discovered that she beloved my present. So I mentioned, ‘Oh my gosh,’ I went to the writers, I mentioned, ‘Can she be on the present?’ And she or he mentioned she needed to be a useless physique, however then I mentioned, ‘No, no, we now have this nice half for you,’” the ER actress mentioned. “I name her again, I mentioned, ‘Hear we acquired it. We’re gonna get you on the present.’ She goes, ‘Oh no, I wanna be a useless physique.’”
Admittedly, the late evening host was additionally a type of individuals who solely needed to play useless.
“I needed to be a useless physique. Through the 2007-2008 writers strike, I met all these Regulation & Order writers, and I used to be like, ‘I wanna do a cameo, however I simply wanna be a useless physique,’” Meyers recalled. “They usually had been like, ‘Oh my God, we’d like to have you ever on the present.’ However I used to be like, ‘OK, however I’m a useless particular person.’”
Regardless of finally being supplied a task, he turned it down as a result of he “was like, ‘I don’t need traces, I simply wanna be a useless particular person within the park.’”
Elsewhere within the late evening look, Hargitay shared that there’s one factor she’s actually needed to do in an episode of the Dick Wolf present, however the writers received’t let her: Be drunk.
“I don’t know who I’ve to name to get a drunk gig ’trigger I’m so good at it, and I encourage, I encourage,” she mentioned. “I imply, like, I’m America’s sweetheart, I assumed. I encourage them to jot down me a drunk scene. They received’t.”
She joked, as a substitute, she has to go to bars and never drink however faux to be drunk, hoping there’s a producer there that may forged her in a task the place she will painting a drunk particular person.
Regulation & Orders: SVU season 26 premieres on NBC tonight and can air subsequent episodes on Thursdays, dropping next-day on Peacock.
