Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit star Ice-T is true there with the followers on the subject of the will-they-won’t-they between Captain Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni).
The rapper-actor not too long ago spoke with Leisure Weekly forward of the SVU Season 27 premiere on September 25, sharing his ideas on the connection between Benson and Stabler and whether or not they’ll ever get collectively after years of teasing.
“I don’t know, that’s simply the present. I don’t know what’s occurring. However I’ve been telling them to get a room for a very long time,” Ice-T informed the outlet.
Benson and Stabler had been companions for over a decade on SVU, taking down numerous criminals in New York Metropolis. Their friendship and closeness grew over the seasons, main many followers to hope that they might flip their work partnership right into a romantic one. Stabler even confessed his love for Benson and tried to kiss her in SVU Season 24.
Sadly for Stabler and the viewers, that kiss by no means occurred. Benson informed her former associate, “Elliot, I need to. I need to, however I can’t.” When Stabler requested why, she stated, “As a result of what if it doesn’t work out?”
Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson, Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stabler in ‘Regulation & Order: Organized Crime’; NBC
Whereas Ice-T agrees with followers that the favored characters ought to get collectively, he additionally had a blunt message, suggesting viewers ought to decrease their expectations.
“Information blast, it’s not actual! There are writers behind it,” he said. “Folks all the time say, ‘It is best to have executed this. It is best to have executed this.’ I’m like, I can solely say the phrases they put in my mouth. I can say it my approach, I may give it my taste. However we’re going for a journey together with them.”
Nonetheless, with Hargitay serving as a producer on the present, and extra not too long ago turning her focus to the director’s chair, Ice-T hinted that she might have the ability to push the romance angle.
“Now, Mariska is a producer on the present, and he or she’s additionally directed a couple of. She’s not a author, however she has a variety of energy, so she’s type of steering the boat,” he defined.
That stated, he famous that he isn’t certain if the present’s bosses really need that, including, “I don’t know if [producer] Dick Wolf desires them to ever hook up. Possibly he simply desires to maintain dangling that carrot. Maintain the seasons coming in.”
As for Meloni, he has made it clear he desires the characters to hook up. In July, a fan despatched him a submit on X, writing, “@Chris_Meloni for f— sake, kiss her already!” The Emmy-nominated actor replied, “I’m f****** making an attempt.”
Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, Season 27 Premiere, Thursday, September 25, 9/8c