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Mariska Hargitay on the Role ‘All the Famous People’ Want on ‘SVU’

There’s one position all the largest stars need to painting on Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, based on star and govt producer Mariska Hargitay.

The actress made an look on Late Evening With Seth Meyers forward of the SVU season 26 premiere on Thursday. Whereas talking with the host, she revealed that A-listers who need to visitor star on the long-running present all need to play useless.

“All of the well-known folks, you already know what they need? To be a useless physique,” she informed Seth Meyers. “It’s so bizarre.”

Hargitay recalled she not too long ago spoke to a “huge supermodel,” whom she wouldn’t title however famous she was “one of many greats,” who wished to solely painting a useless individual, regardless of the SVU writers having a extra elaborate position for her.

“I discovered that she liked my present. So I mentioned, ‘Oh my gosh,’ I went to the writers, I mentioned, ‘Can she be on the present?’ And he or she mentioned she wished to be a useless physique, however then I mentioned, ‘No, no, we’ve this nice half for you,’” the ER actress mentioned. “I name her again, I mentioned, ‘Hear we acquired it. We’re gonna get you on the present.’ She goes, ‘Oh no, I wanna be a useless physique.’”

Admittedly, the late night time host was additionally a type of individuals who solely wished to play useless.

“I wished to be a useless physique. Through the 2007-2008 writers strike, I met all these Regulation & Order writers, and I used to be like, ‘I wanna do a cameo, however I simply wanna be a useless physique,’” Meyers recalled. “And so they had been like, ‘Oh my God, we’d like to have you ever on the present.’ However I used to be like, ‘OK, however I’m a useless individual.’”

Regardless of finally being supplied a job, he turned it down as a result of he “was like, ‘I don’t need traces, I simply wanna be a useless individual within the park.’”

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Elsewhere within the late night time look, Hargitay shared that there’s one factor she’s actually wished to do in an episode of the Dick Wolf present, however the writers received’t let her: Be drunk.

“I don’t know who I’ve to name to get a drunk gig ’trigger I’m so good at it, and I urge, I urge,” she mentioned. “I imply, like, I’m America’s sweetheart, I believed. I urge them to put in writing me a drunk scene. They received’t.”

She joked, as an alternative, she has to go to bars and never drink however faux to be drunk, hoping there’s a producer there that can solid her in a job the place she will painting a drunk individual.

Regulation & Orders: SVU season 26 premieres on NBC tonight and can air subsequent episodes on Thursdays, dropping next-day on Peacock.

Dylan O’Brien Recalls ‘Really Bad’ Audition for Frozen 2

Dylan O’Brien is trying again at his audition for Frozen 2, which didn’t essentially go as deliberate.

The Saturday Night time actor not too long ago made an look on Late Night time With Seth Meyers, the place the host requested him about his failed audition for the 2019 animated sequel, which noticed Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel return as sisters Anna and Elsa, respectively.

O’Brien stated he didn’t go into the audition with excessive hopes of touchdown the position “as a result of I knew that I in all probability wasn’t going to get it.” The actor didn’t disclose which character he auditioned for.

“They’re searching for multitalented, multi-hyphenate individuals who can act and sing,” he instructed Seth Meyers of the musical movie. “And I didn’t examine, to be trustworthy, in all probability both.”

The Teen Wolf alum acknowledged that he “can’t sing,” however determined to audition as a result of he doesn’t “all the time really feel like an actual actor.” Nonetheless, Meyers questioned how lengthy it took the casting director to additionally notice singing wasn’t one in every of O’Brien’s prime abilities.

“This poor lady,” the actor stated. “I keep in mind, truly — this can be a particular element — she requested me, painfully, if I might get to the refrain as a result of she wanted to see if I had a sure vary.” O’Brien admitted he was “swimming within the first verse slightly bit,” however finally “went greater,” per the girl’s request, and “it was actually dangerous.”

“I knew. She knew. It’s okay,” he quipped, however Meyers requested in response, “Did she know you knew?”

“I feel so, as a result of when she stated to me, ‘Okay, okay’… She stated two ‘okays.’ I’ll always remember it,” The Maze Runner actor recalled. “After which she stated, ‘Thanks for coming in. I feel we’d in all probability want a little bit of a stronger singer,’ and I used to be already simply nodding, going, ‘Yeah, I do know.’ I used to be like, ‘Thanks for having me.’”

O’Brien added that general, the audition was a constructive expertise. “I actually solely keep in mind it fondly,” he stated, earlier than playfully telling Meyers, “After which I’m glad that’s what they selected so that you can ask me about.” 

“We needed you to have closure. Don’t you see, Dylan?” the host quipped, to which the actor responded, “It’s made me snug, truly. I’m critical!”

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Seth Meyers, HBO Partner for New Comedy Special

Seth Meyers is bringing his comedy to HBO.

The Late Night time host has lined up his subsequent standup particular, which is about to debut on HBO (and Max) later this fall. The hour, his first for the WarnerMedia model, was taped in entrance of a stay viewers in June at The Vic Theatre in Chicago.

“Critics say it’s the particular my youngsters might be speaking about in remedy twenty years from now!” Meyers joked in a press release Tuesday. His final hour, Foyer Child, which famously tackled the messy delivery of his second of three kids, amongst different topics, was launched on Netflix in 2019.

As longtime followers, we’re so comfortable to accomplice with Seth on his first HBO particular,” famous Nina Rosenstein, govt vp HBO programming, late night time and specials. “He’s such a charismatic storyteller and we’ve at all times cherished the way in which he reaches individuals on such a private degree. This particular is endlessly relatable and a lot enjoyable to observe.” 

The information comes as comedy specials have discovered themselves in demand, as new entrants like Hulu muscle into {the marketplace}. HBO has managed to distinguish itself from the larger, extra volume-focused competitors; as an alternative, it’s bought itself as a vacation spot for status, boundary-pushing comedy. In truth, 4 of HBO’s most up-to-date specials, together with hours from each Alex Edelman and Ramy Youssef, have been rewarded with Emmy nominations. (Half a decade earlier, Meyer’s Foyer Child nabbed an Emmy nomination as properly.)

Meyers, himself a present Emmy nominee for his NBC late night time collection, has remained lively on the highway regardless of his huge TV and podcast commitments. In truth, he usually performs to bought out crowds throughout the nation and co-headlines a month-to-month residency with fellow late night time host and Strike Drive 5 podcaster John Oliver on the Beacon Theatre in New York. Requested earlier this spring what itch standup scratches that his nightly TV present doesn’t, Meyers informed THR: “It’s a completely completely different muscle. I additionally suppose there’s a threat when you have got an extremely proficient writing employees of simply getting a little bit mushy — you may sort of experience off of their abilities. And since you additionally owe it to your writers to continuously be attempting to sharpen your supply system, standup is nice as a result of it forces you to do this.”

The brand new hour is directed by comedy vet Neal Brennan, who additionally helmed Foyer Child, and govt produced by Meyers and Mike Shoemaker, his Late Night time showrunner and accomplice in Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions. Like his first hour, Meyers’ second is being produced by Irwin Leisure.