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In a caller interview, Law & Order: SVU's Kelli Giddish shared memories from filming her last occurrence arsenic Detective Amanda Rollins, arsenic good arsenic teased a imaginable instrumentality to the NBC drama.
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It's the extremity of an SVU era.
After announcing her departure from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit successful August, Kelli Giddish bid farewell to her quality Detective Amanda Rollins connected the NBC drama's Dec. 8 episode. And arsenic affectional arsenic it was to ticker her tackle one past case with Mariska Hargitay's Captain Olivia Benson, the histrion revealed it was conscionable arsenic bittersweet to movie successful a caller interrogation with Variety.
"There's truthful overmuch laughter and determination were truthful galore tears," she said. "It was a truly beauteous experience."
In summation to leaving her relation astatine the NYPD for a caller job, the play 24 autumn finale occurrence besides saw Rollins tie the knot with fellow Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. (Peter Scanavino), a crippled constituent Kelli said made her "so happy."
"I was like, 'Thank God'" she joked, "because the fans are going to freak retired if they don't get it! Let's springiness it to them."
The 42-year-old has been a longtime formed subordinate since joining the show's 13th season successful 2011. But similar each bully things, Kelli said she knew now was clip for Rollins' communicative to travel to a close.
"I felt similar wherever it was heading, and wherever it headed past night, conscionable seemed the close spot to permission it close now," the prima explained. "I americium truthful excited astir things going connected successful my idiosyncratic beingness and benignant of the mirroring of what's going connected successful my idiosyncratic beingness and successful Rollins', there's a batch of joyousness to beryllium experienced."
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With Rollins acceptable to look successful a upcoming occurrence of Law & Order: Organized Crime, Kelli teased that the "door is un-shut" erstwhile it comes to returning to the L&O beingness successful the future.
"The assemblage loves these characters, they cognize us," she said. "Dick Wolf has got specified a fertile beingness that's going on, that radical tin popular up successful antithetic places. That's a truly chill happening that he's created."
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit returns Thursday, Jan. 5, astatine 9 p.m. connected NBC.
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