Law and Order: SVU spoilers tease that Mariska Hargitay felt devastated when Christoper Meloni left the NBC show, formally titled Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. They were partners on the show for twelve years.
Law And Order SVU Spoilers – Fans Never Moved On When Elliot Stabler DidAccording to Mariska, who has known Chris for twenty-two years, even though she and Chris moved on and the show itself moved on when he left the show in 2011, fans never did.
Mariska felt sad because she and Chris started the onscreen partnership and built it over those twelve years together. She was devastated when his contract negotiations fell apart. Mariska says that they went through so many milestones in the show and spent so much time together onscreen they understood many things no one else could.
She went on to say that she had to do a lot of mental gymnastics to reinvent Olivia in her own mind, because Benson and Stabler had been viewed as a unit in many fans' minds.
Mariska was a little scared, but the character grew and evolved minus her partner Stabler, at least in the script side of things. Meloni saw things a little differently – he speaks of Mariska, that she was a little left behind in the familiarity of Benson and Stabler.
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