Mariska Hargitay Reveals the Coveted Role on ‘SVU’ that ‘All the Famous People’ Want | Entertainment

There’s one function all the largest stars need to painting on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in response to star and govt producer Mariska Hargitay.

The actress made an look on Late Night With Seth Meyers forward of the SVU season 26 premiere on Thursday. While talking with the host, she revealed that A-listers who need to visitor star on the long-running present all need to play useless.

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

Hargitay recalled she not too long ago spoke to a “big supermodel,” whom she wouldn’t identify however famous she was “one of the greats,” who wished to solely painting a useless particular person, regardless of the SVU writers having a extra elaborate function for her.

“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,'” the ER actress stated. “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.'”

Admittedly, the late night time host was additionally a type of individuals who solely wished to play useless.

“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,'” Meyers recalled. “And they were like, ‘Oh my God, we’d love to have you on the show.’ But I was like, ‘OK, but I’m a dead person.'”

Despite ultimately being supplied a task, he turned it down as a result of he “was like, ‘I don’t want lines, I just wanna be a dead person in the park.'”

Elsewhere in the late night time look, Hargitay shared that there’s one factor she’s actually wished 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 have to call to get a drunk gig ’cause I’m so good at it, and I beg, I beg,” she stated. “I mean, like, I’m America’s sweetheart, I thought. I beg them to write me a drunk scene. They won’t.”

She joked, as a substitute, she has to go to bars and never drink however fake to be drunk, hoping there’s a producer there that will solid her in a task the place she will painting a drunk particular person.

Law & Orders: SVU season 26 premieres on NBC tonight and can air subsequent episodes on Thursdays, dropping next-day on Peacock.