The actress teased that a “big supermodel” asked her recently to make a cameo on the show — but she only wanted to play one type of character
After 26 years as Olivia Benson, there isn’t much that surprises — except for the celebrities who ask her for the strangest roles on Law & Order.
Hargitay, 60, revealed that one of the most frequent requests she gets from fellow stars is to play a “dead body” on her hit procedural.
“All the famous people, you know what they want? To be a dead body,” she said on on Oct. 2. “It’s so weird.”
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then added to Hargitay’s growing list as he admitted he, too, has wanted to play a dead body on the show for years.
“I wanted to be a dead body. During the 2007-2008 writers strike, I met all these Law & Order writers, and I was like, ‘I wanna do a cameo, but I just wanna be a dead body,'” he recalled. “And they were like, ‘Oh my God, we’d love to have you on the show.’ But I was like, ‘Okay, but I’m a dead person.'”
He was eventually offered a role, but turned it down, because “I was like, ‘I don’t want lines, I just wanna be a dead person in the park.'”
Hargitay then teased that a “big supermodel” who she didn’t name — but called “one of the greats” — recently made the same hilarious request she often gets.
“I found out that she loved my show. So I said, ‘Oh my gosh,’ I went to the writers, I said, ‘Can she be on the show?’ And she said she wanted to be a dead body, but then I said, ‘No, no, we have this great part for you,'” she said. “I call her back, I said, ‘Listen we got it. We’re gonna get you on the show.’ She goes, ‘Oh no, I wanna be a dead body.'”
Hargitay was jokingly exasperated as she told Meyers, 50, “It happens all the time. Why do all these famous people not want lines?”
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Hargitay returns to her iconic role on Oct. 3 as the 26th season of SVU premieres. In , the actress said of the role, “I’ve had the privilege of connecting on such a personal level. Having fans come up and say thank you for telling their story.”
“I think this show has shed a beautiful light because these crimes thrive in darkness,” she continued. “It’s the light that heals it.”
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Law & Order: SVU season 26premieres Thursday, Oct. 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
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