Legislation & Order: SVU followers are counting down the hours till Thursday’s (Jan. 26) episode, the place they hope one thing will occur between Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and her former associate Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni).
The joy began earlier this month in a promo for the Jan. 26 episode that confirmed a brief clip of Benson and Stabler virtually nose-to-nose in what seemed to be an intimate embrace. Followers have lengthy needed the characters to get collectively, and that is the largest signal but that it is lastly going to occur.
Meloni remained coy when he appeared on NBC’s At this time present on Wednesday (Jan. 25), dodging the query and selecting as a substitute to stare mysteriously into the digicam for 30 seconds. The Emmy nominee lastly broke his star and began laughing.
Benson and Stabler… is it on? 👀 @Chris_Meloni pic.twitter.com/kqR2Q9Hrsb
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 25, 2023
At this time hosts Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie pressed him whether or not or not he kissed Hargitay, exhibiting a slowed-down model of the teaser clip. “We’re colleagues; That is not how we maintain one another’s faces,” Guthrie joked.
“She has one thing essential to inform me,” Meloni mentioned, later including, “I used to be simply asking about her magnificence suggestions.
When he was pushed additional, he gulped and mentioned, “I would like my lawyer.”
“We’re colleagues, we do not maintain one another’s faces like that…” –@SavannahGuthrie and @hodakotb grilling @Chris_Meloni a few steamy teasing picture of Stabler and Benson from an upcoming episode. pic.twitter.com/2Jy313WLaW
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 25, 2023
“Did you or did not you kiss her?”
“I would like my lawyer.”
THUN THUN. @Chris_Meloni talks about Stabler and Benson’s relationship and his upcoming tasks. pic.twitter.com/kljgJ2CA9j
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 25, 2023
He opened up about filming the “intimate” episode, revealing that he and Hargitay did not do something “too totally different”.
“For those who’ve been buddies and colleagues and, , have the form of relationship that we’ve got, you get to see what the scene is about and also you get into it,” he defined.
“In my opinion, I’ll say it was an attention-grabbing scene, a fragile scene, a troublesome scene…uncomfortable, however that is all good,” he continued. “As a result of I believe these had been all components that had been a part of the scene.”
What did Chris and Mariska do in a different way to organize for this extra intimate “SVU” episode? 👀 pic.twitter.com/atxiSQ6jHQ
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 25, 2023
When requested if he did something to “set the temper” earlier than filming the scene, Meloni joked, “I popped a breath mint.” Naturally, this instantly aroused followers’ expectations of a kiss.
“He popped a what, did I hear that proper??!!” one fan wrote on Twitter, whereas one other added, “You dropped a mint – you do not assume I see what you are doing however I do see it sir!”
Followers should wait till tomorrow evening to search out out what is going on to occur.
Legislation & Order: SVUThursday, 9/8c, NBC
