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After astir 25 years of playing Captain Olivia Benson connected Law & Order: SVU, Mariska Hargitay revealed she has the cleanable ending successful caput for her iconic quality connected the NBC series.
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All bully things indispensable travel to an end, including Mariska Hargitay's clip connected Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
The histrion has spent astir 25 years playing Captain Olivia Benson connected the NBC transgression drama, and her quality has go thing little than iconic (Taylor Swift adjacent named one of her cats after her). In 2018, the prima teased her character's ideal ending to E! News, but she didn't uncover what it was...until now.
"I anticipation that she tin get to a constituent wherever she feels similar she's done capable work and it's clip to remainder and beryllium and spot the champion that beingness has to offer," she exclusively told E! News connected Sept. 19 astatine the show's play 24 premiere successful NYC, "because she's spent truthful overmuch clip successful the darkest of what beingness has to offer."
As for what that would entail? "I deliberation it would beryllium sharing her beingness with someone," said Hargitay, "and being capable to absorption wholly connected the joys of motherhood." Olivia is the adoptive parent of Noah Porter-Benson (Ryan Buggle), the lad of Ellie Porter (Emma Greenwell) and Johnny Drake (Charles Halford).
The histrion doesn't cognize who the "someone" Olivia could extremity up with is, telling E! News, "I don't know. Let's spot what pops up!"
However, her quality was successful a very slow-burn, will they/won't they relationship with her erstwhile spouse successful crime, Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), for years earlier helium made the determination to Law & Order: Organized Crime successful 2021.
Perhaps fans volition yet get the romance they've been waiting for earlier Olivia's eventual goodbye connected the series.
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The relation is 1 that Hargitay volition transportation with her forever, arsenic she has picked up respective lessons from the Captain implicit the years that she'll use to her existent life.
"I would accidental learning to tolerate our feelings and knowing that we tin get implicit anything, that they pass, and past we're stronger due to the fact that of it," she said. "It's conscionable astir accessing our strength. I deliberation that Olivia is specified a badass who's grown into her power. And that is our travel for each of america women."
Law & Order: SVU play 24 premieres Thursday, Sept. 22, astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC.
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