According to The Hollywood Reporter, Reneé Rapp (The Sex Lives of College Girls, Mean Girls) has a pitch for the writers of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The actor was asked by the Today show’s “8 Before 8” video series, “If you had a guest starring role on SVU, what character would you play?”
“Let me tell ya. I would be Mariska Hargitay‘s (Tales from Earthsea, Leaving Las Vegas) lover. She would be gay, finally,” Rapp responded via The Hollywood Reporter, referring to the actress who plays Captain Olivia Benson on the series.
“There was an episode where they were talking about it and considering if she was gay,” the Leave Me Alone singer said via The Hollywood Reporter, . “I feel like Christopher Meloni’s (The Handmaid’s Tale, Law & Order) character Detective Elliot Stabler was like, ‘No, like, you’re a lesbian.’ And she was like, ‘Um, no.’ Liar.”
Rapp added via The Hollywood Reporter, “I would be her lover and we would somehow get tangled in an undercover kind of mission, probably with a drug empire.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is a police drama focuses on the detectives of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department. The series often uses ripped from the headlines and incorporates societal issues like gender identity, sexual preferences, and equality rights.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, through the 26 seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Hargitay‘s character has seen several romantic interests; however, many fans of the franchise have overwhelmingly wanted Olivia Benson to end up with Meloni’s Elliot Stabler on the series. Meloni departed the series in 2011 after 12 seasons but has made guest appearances throughout the years and reprised his role in the spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime. Recently, he shared on social media that he was potentially returning to the series sharing on-set photos with Hargitay and co-star Dann Florek (Angel Heart, The Flinstones). “Hangin with friends on a Friday nite,” he wrote in the caption.
