Not many individuals can declare to be born on February 29, however longtime Regulation & Order: SVU star Peter Scanavino is a type of few. The actor, who could be discovered on NBC Thursday nights as a part of the 2025 TV schedule, has been a part of the nine-show Dick Wolf world not solely as the identical character for greater than 200 episodes, however he performed just a few different characters earlier than touchdown the Carisi position. So, it is actually solely becoming that the Instagram account for the entire Regulation & Order franchise wished him the very best for his birthday.
That stated, seeing that submit mixed with current Regulation & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 information has me flashing again to what he informed me about Carisi, Peacock, and expletives. And technically, since 2025 just isn’t a Leap 12 months, the Instagram account may solely rejoice Scanavino on the closest accessible date that was nonetheless in his beginning month, which suggests the properly needs went on-line on February 28! Have a look:
With greater than ten years and 200 episodes to his identify, there was no scarcity of choices for Carisi pics to submit for the actor’s birthday, and I for one take pleasure in that there is a mixture of ADA Carisi and Detective Carisi. He was a cop for a very long time earlier than he handed the bar, in spite of everything, and that was a memorable period of SVU. For her half, main woman Mariska Hargitay wasn’t going to let the day go with out including her personal properly needs, writing within the remark part:
Completely satisfied birthday, Peter Scanavino I really like you!!
In mild of the celebration of the actor, I believed again on how he tackled a traumatic arc earlier in Season 26, and I used to be lucky sufficient to talk with him about Carisi getting his wake-up name. On the time, I additionally took a second to pose a special kind of query because the wait continued for information on Regulation & Order: Organized Crime. Scanavino had guest-starred on three episodes of Christopher Meloni’s present throughout its NBC days.
With Organized Crime‘s transfer to change into accessible with a Peacock subscription, it is doable that Stabler and Co. could have fewer limits on language than they’d on community TV. If Carisi turned up on OC following its transfer to Peacock, would he be the sort of man to swear? Nicely, I requested Peter Scanavino that very query again in January, and he weighed in:
Sure. I believe he undoubtedly lets some expletives fly now and again. [laughs] I’ve to go along with a sure on that one.
Truthfully, with the work Carisi does (to not point out his ordeal in late 2024), why would not he drop some expletives now and again?! In all seriousness, it could be enjoyable to see if any SVU characters have been allowed to let unfastened a bit extra on Organized Crime on Peacock. It isn’t even clear simply but if OC will push previous NBC boundaries on the streamer, and there isn’t any affirmation that anyone will cross over, however why not hope? The premiere date was introduced as April 17, so the times are counting down.
Whether or not or not Carisi returns to Organized Crime as soon as it debuts on Peacock, the actor has quite a bit to be pleased with in spite of everything his years within the franchise. Scanavino mirrored on his main arc of Season 26 after we spoke early this yr, saying:
It is nice, since you get to essentially sort of examine and take into consideration on a special degree, what your character is all about, and what drives them, what they like, they do not like, what they care about, what they do not care about, what they worry. It is allowed me to essentially take into consideration Carisi otherwise, who’s this character that I performed for 11 years now, you recognize, and it is nearly like an actual person who I actually care about
As a procedural, Regulation & Order: SVU would not all the time characteristic serialized storylines for characters, which truly led to problems when it got here to Benson and Stabler’s dynamic on SVU vs. their dynamic on Organized Crime. Carisi received a type of uncommon serialized storylines in Season 26, and I have been saying for the reason that fall finale again in 2024 that Peter Scanavino nailed it.
If you wish to revisit any of these older episodes of Regulation & Order: SVU, yow will discover each season to this point streaming on Peacock in addition to the primary 25 seasons with a Hulu subscription. New Season 26 episodes air on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC. As for Regulation & Order: Organized Crime… properly, we will solely wait to see if the tone and language can be any totally different on Peacock than on NBC.