Olivia Benson’s elite squad is shedding two of their very own.
Octavio Pisano, who portrays Detective Joe Velasco, and Juliana Martinez, who’s Detective Kate Silva on “Law & Order: SVU,” are exiting the NBC collection on the finish of Season 26.
Pisano, 38, joined the drama throughout Season 23 as a former secret agent turned Particular Victims Unit detective.
Martinez, 34, solely joined the solid throughout Season 26 as a former Brooklyn Murder Unit detective who transferred over to the sixteenth Precinct.
Neither have but to publicly touch upon the information.
Martinez, nevertheless, did take to Instagram on April 17 to share images of the solid.
“I hope you tuned into Law & Order Crossover and Organized Crime tonight!! It’s also a SZN wrap on SVU. ♥️ Thankful to everyone who has tuned in and this whole, wonderful cast tonight,” she wrote. ‘Y’all dominated my world x.”
Regardless of calling it a “SZN wrap on SVU,” the collection is presently nonetheless going with the season finale, “Post-Rage,” airing on Might 15.
“Law & Order: SVU” follows detectives from the Particular Victims Unit as they examine and prosecute sexually based mostly crimes. Many episodes are loosely ripped from the headlines.
The collection — created by Dick Wolf — premiered 1999 with Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson), Christopher Meloni (Elliot Stabler), Dann Florek (Donald Cragen), Richard Belzer (John Munch) and Ice-T (Odafin Tutuola), because the titular solid.
Hargitay, 61, nonetheless leads the present with Ice-T, 67, whereas Meloni, 64, exited in 2011.
The actor now stars within the spinoff “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” which is airing its fifth season on Peacock.
In April, Hargitay mirrored on starring on the procedural present for 26 years.
“It feels like running a marathon, and when you’re in it, all you see is this much ahead of you. I’ve been so busy, so challenged and it requires so much of me that all I can do is be on the treadmill of trying to keep up,” she mentioned whereas on “Sunday Today With Willie Geist.”
Hargitay sees parallels between her and Benson climbing up the ranks of their perspective fields.
“I would describe it as sort of the perfect feminist story,” she expressed on the time. “There are these stepping stones of growth and integration and owning something. It’s been such a beautiful evolution and such a beautiful journey.”
The actress confirmed the casting tales, that she and Meloni stepped right into a room collectively and Wolf, 78, mentioned “that’s it.”
“Absolutely,” Hargitay said when Geist, 50, requested if she felt that method too. “It was sort of a once in a lifetime experience. I knew quickly this we had this kind of magical chemistry. Chris and I are polar opposites in terms of who we are as people and yet there was this ying yang. When they paired us I was like, ‘Oh this is done.’”
