The decision is in: Christopher Meloni is aware of what the followers need.
The “Law & Order: Organized Crime” star, 64, revealed that he has been making an attempt to get his character, Detective Elliot Stabler, to hook up together with his former companion, Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay).
Viewers have needed these two to get collectively since they first starred aspect by aspect on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” in 1999. Though Stabler left the squad in 2011, he got here again to the Large Apple to battle organized crime in 2021.
After all, within the Dick Wolf universe, the viewers has seen fairly a couple of crossover episodes since Meloni’s return.
On Monday, a fan wrote on X, “@Chris_Meloni for f–k sake, kiss her already!” to which the star responded, “I’m f–king trying.”
The pair has stayed loyal mates over the a long time, and, at one level, Benson and Stabler even got here near coupling up.
For Hargitay’s half, she’s having fun with the will-they-won’t-they narrative.
“Maybe on the last episode,” the 61-year-old mentioned whereas on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in June. “I think that’s when they should be together… if it’s right. We’ll see when we get there.”
Hargitay believes the Manhattan officers are “soulmates, in a way.”
The “My Mom Jayne” director added, “But let’s see where the story takes us, you know?”
In Season 24 of “SVU,” Benson and Stabler virtually shared a kiss, however she pulled away.
“We were attempting something,” Meloni mentioned in regards to the second in April throughout a TVLine Highlight dialog. “I don’t think it worked. But I’m not going to tell you why it didn’t work, because you all have your opinion.”
He added, “I know what transpired.”
“I don’t go, ‘That’s what’s going to go on TV. That’s what we’re going to air.’ We don’t have that power. We do the best we can to be honest with the scenes we’re given,” Meloni famous.
He additionally tries to “make it honest, not make it bait.”
“If we do bait, at least for me, I always do it with a wink. I think it’s good-natured, but maybe you guys are over that, and that’s valid,” the actor added.
“But you give us too much credit for the power that we might have,” he mentioned, “will-they-won’t-they and all that stuff.”
Harigtay had beforehand dished on what went down.
“To be honest with you, Chris and I thought it should go one way and the powers that be didn’t, so it got changed at the last minute, that near kiss,” she revealed to Selection in Could 2024. “Obviously Alexandra Bellusci Dick [Wolf] gets final say. It’s his show and he didn’t want that.”
Throughout an EW interview final yr, “SVU” star Ice-T requested Hargitay: “Y’all haven’t hooked up yet at all? Close, right? Almost a kiss?”
She teased again, “No, just two times in Season 4!… No. We have not hooked up.”
Off-air, Hargitay and Meloni are thick as thieves.
“We are just connected,” she mentioned on “Call Her Daddy.” “We are so close. It’s like we’ve been through the battle together. We know each other so well. We love each other so much. We respect each other so much.”
“We are so comfortable with each other, we deeply trust each other … Whatever he needs, I will always be there for him, and that’s mutual,” Hargitay gushed. “And we have grown together, we’ve known each other 27 years.”
The actors even have shut bonds with each other’s children.
The “Happy” actor has been married to manufacturing designer Sherman Meloni since 1995, and the pair have children Sophia, 24, and Dante, 21. Hargitay is Sophia’s godmother.
The NBC star tied the knot with Peter Hermann in 2004. They’re mother and father to August, 18, Amaya, 14, and Andrew, 13. The couple adopted their two youngest youngsters in 2011.
In 2023, Sophia shared a touching publish for her well-known godmother’s birthday on Instagram. “Waving my wand to summon all things sparkly, shiny, beautiful and grand for my fairy godmamma today,” she wrote.
“Law & Order: Organized Crime” lately wrapped its fifth season on Peacock, whereas “SVU” will likely be again on NBC for Season 27 on Sept. 25.
