Author: Michael

Mariska Hargitay—who has portrayed Olivia Benson on ‘Law & Order: SVU’ since 1999—revealed she once considered walking away from the hit show. “The comedy thing was painful to me,” she told Variety in an Aug. 19 interview, “because I felt like I was only exercising one part of myself. People would say, ‘You need to get off that show and do comedy. You need to get off that show and have a talk show.’” But even when she told her pal Julianna Margulies that she was considering moving on from the series, which first premiered in 1999, she knew in…

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