Seth Meyers Reveals Attempt to Play a Corpse on SVU to Mariska Hargitay | Entertainment

Olivia Benson's influence: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is about to kick off its twenty sixth season, and any fan of the present is aware of there's been a ton of celeb visitor stars over time. But as sequence star Mariska Hargitay revealed throughout her Late Night with Seth Meyers interview on October 2, well-known followers of the sequence all have one position in thoughts: Playing the sufferer (actually).

Hargitay, who additionally shared a hilarious story about not being allowed to contact her Olivia Benson costume on the Smithsonian (“I wore this for…26 years!”) and demonstrated her expertise for “drunk acting”, stated a celeb angling for cadaver cameo truly occurred once more very lately. 

“All the famous people, you know what they want? To be a dead body. It's so weird,” Hargitay informed Seth Meyers.

And, because it seems, Meyers was a type of well-known individuals.

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Seth Meyers was nearly a visitor star on Law & Order: SVU

“During the 2007-2008 writers' strike, I met all these Law & Order writers,” Meyers informed the actress. “And I was like, ‘I want to do a cameo, but I just want to be a dead body.' And they were like, ‘Oh, my God, we'd love to have you on the show.' I'm like, “Okay, however I'm a lifeless particular person.”

Then, Meyers continued, “my agent was like, ‘There's a half for you.' And I checked out it and I used to be like, ‘I do not need traces! I simply need to be a lifeless particular person within the park.'”

Hargitay shared that a “supermodel” also recently preferred to play a dead body — rejecting a role with actual lines.

“This simply occurred to me with a supermodel. I'm not going to identify her. An enormous supermodel… one of many greats,” she teased. “I came upon that she beloved my present. So I went to the writers, I stated, ‘Can she be on the present?' She stated she needed to be a lifeless physique, however then I stated, ‘No, no, we have now this nice half for you.'”

“I name her again. I stated, ‘Listen, we acquired it. We're going to get you on the present.' And she goes, ‘Oh, no. I need to be a lifeless physique,'” Hargitay continued. “It occurs on a regular basis. Why do not these well-known individuals need traces?!”

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Meyers said that he also would have played “any individual who discovered a lifeless physique,” rolling out his finest audition on the spot. Hopefully Hargitay talks to creator Dick Wolf and may make this Law & Order–Late Night crossover a actuality.

Law & Order: SVU Season 26 premieres Thursday, October 3 at 9/8c on NBC. All new episodes can be found to stream the following day on Peacock.