Will fans ever get to spot Law & Order: Organized Crime's Christopher Meloni and Special Victims Unit prima Mariska Hargitay fastener lips? Hear his answer.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fans person agelong thought a romanticist narration betwixt Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson would be worth an investigation.
And portion the erstwhile partners person surely been gravitating toward 1 ever since Christopher Meloni reprised his relation of Det. Stabler connected Law & Order: Organized Crime, helium and Mariska Hargitay's Capt. Benson person yet to fastener lips. As a result, fans are practically begging Law & Order showrunners to bash something—anything—that will connection a glimmer of anticipation (especially aft Meloni and Hargitay's near-kiss astatine the 2022 Emmys!).
E! News was determined to get answers. So, up of the highly-anticipated upcoming Law & Order crossover event, we asked Meloni what it would instrumentality to spot him and Hargitay stock a kiss.
His response? "You mightiness arsenic good triumph the Powerball."
While not the astir reassuring of answers, Law & Order fans cognize to ever expect the unexpected. After all, arsenic Meloni enactment it, there's a special bond betwixt Benson and Stabler. "What's his favourite happening astir her? Well, it's that familiarity," helium told E! News. "And present it's the thought of you're successful a abstraction wherever you're allowed to springiness afloat look to feelings that you ever had, but we're not allowed to enactment on."
It's not similar Stabler is successful the great presumption to commencement a relationship, either. Looking astatine his character's future, Meloni said, "I deliberation he's a antheral who needs to travel to presumption with a batch of his pains oregon conscionable virtually the decease of his wife. I conscionable deliberation that's a pugnacious thing."
"And I person a analyzable narration with my ex partner," Meloni continued. "I mean, these are existent juicy, analyzable things that I would deliberation are precise absorbing to explore."
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Thankfully for fans, that's precisely what Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime are gearing up to do.
The Law & Order premiere lawsuit airs Thursday, Sept. 22, from 8 to 11 p.m. connected NBC. You tin besides tune successful to each 3 episodes the adjacent time connected Peacock.
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