Mariska Hargitay — often called Olivia Benson on ‘Regulation & Order’ — briefly turned a real-life cop after a misplaced little lady was looking for her mom … and got here to her for assist.
The kid is claimed to have thought Mariska was an precise police officer as she clocked her prop cop badge …. bolting straight to her for assist whereas the actress was in the course of filming an ‘SVU’ episode in NYC final week.
Witnesses report the little lady — who turned separated from her mother whereas at Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park — did not even discover the filming crew or Mariska’s scene associate, Ice-T, in her seek for assist. She simply went straight for Mariska, apparently.
MH and the manufacturing crew instantly ditched the script for about 20 minutes as they helped observe down her mother … so yeah, she turned an precise hero and did what cops do.
True to an ‘SVU’ episode, this real-life drama had a contented ending too … with the mom and daughter getting reunited, all because of Mariska and the crew’s fast motion.
After 25 seasons, “Law & Order: SVU” reigns because the longest-running primetime live-action sequence in American TV. Naturally, Mariska has turn out to be virtually synonymous along with her function … and she or he’s clearly simply as adept at taking part in a detective off-screen too!
