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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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Happy Days, SNL, West Wing Cast Reunions at 2024 Emmys

The West Wing, Comfortable Days, Saturday Night time Reside, Reba and Schitt’s Creek have been among the many fashionable collection to reunite their casts on the 2024 Emmys.

With NBC’s The West Wing celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of its collection premiere on Sept. 22, 1999, the present’s stars Martin Sheen, Dulé Hill, Janel Maloney, Richard Schiff and Allison Janney took the stage in entrance of a duplicate of its Oval Workplace set. Aaron Sorkin created this system that ran for seven seasons and centered on the administration of President Josiah Bartlet (Sheen).

“It’s arduous to imagine that simply 25 years in the past, Aaron and the writers truly had to make use of their imaginations to create attention-grabbing plotlines for The West Wing,” Janney quipped. Schiff added, “In contrast to right now, the place storylines might be plucked proper off the information — storylines that writers would have deemed a bit far-fetched, if not completely ridiculous, 25 years in the past.”

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Comfortable Days’ premiere episode that aired on ABC on Jan. 15, 1974, the sitcom’s stars Ron Howard and Henry Winkler appeared in entrance of a duplicate of the present’s acquainted setting, Arnold’s Restaurant. On the Garry Marshall-created collection that ran for 11 seasons, Howard performed Richie Cunningham, whereas Winkler portrayed Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli.

Comfortable Days stars Ron Howard and Henry Winkler on the 2024 Emmys.

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“Appears like house,” Winkler mentioned about becoming a member of Howard in entrance of the backdrop. Howard then famous that the collection’ memorable theme music was not taking part in, and he prompted Winkler to do one thing about it.

When Winkler defined that he was out of shape, Howard replied, “You went to the Yale Faculty of Drama, Henry. you are able to do it.” Winkler then hit the jukebox together with his elbow, as his character was recognized to do on the collection, and the theme music began taking part in.

Earlier within the Emmys telecast, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers and Bowen Yang took the stage in the course of the Saturday Night time Reside reunion, and a few of them have been wildly mistaken about collection creator Lorne Michaels‘ win-loss report from the earlier ceremonies.

Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers, Kristen Wiig and Bowen Yang on the 2024 Emmys.

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Wiig knowledgeable the gang that the group had heard a rumor backstage that Michaels had been nominated for an Emmy 85 occasions previously however had by no means received. She addressed Michaels, who was within the viewers, by saying, “You do have worth, you might be worthy, and you aren’t and have by no means been a loser — though you may have misplaced lots.”

Rudolph agreed and advised Michaels, “Each a type of 85 occasions you misplaced, you have been robbed.”

Yang added, “It will get higher. Simply because SNL didn’t work, doesn’t imply your subsequent concept received’t. Hold dreaming.”

Lastly, Meyers chimed in to appropriate his fellow SNL standouts by explaining that Michaels has, in actual fact, received 21 Emmys, with the NBC sketch collection having collected over 200 trophies.

Abruptly, the presenters have been altering their tune. “That’s an excessive amount of,” Wiig mentioned of SNL’s cumulative haul. Rudolph mentioned, “I can’t imagine you’re complaining about this, Lorne. To not be impolite, however develop up.”

Additionally reuniting onstage to current an Emmy have been Reba co-stars Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman. The pair boasted that they didn’t want a teleprompter and had every part memorized in case of any technical glitches.

“We don’t telephone it in anymore,” Peterman mentioned. “Let’s present all people that we memorized all the nominees’ names. Eyes shut.” Evidently, their reminiscence wasn’t as flawless as they could have hoped.

Additionally reuniting have been the celebs of Schitt’s Creek, as Emmys co-hosts Dan Levy and Eugene Levy have been joined on the stage towards the top of the ceremony by fellow collection co-stars Annie Murphy and Catherine O’Hara.

This story was initially revealed on Sept. 15 at 6:40 p.m.

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.