Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fans rejoiced in late March when it was revealed that Christopher Meloni will return as Elliot Stabler in a new SVU spin-off called Organized Crime, reuniting with Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson.
Meloni, 59, set the Internet ablaze when he shared a selfie with Hargitay, explaining on Sirius XM‘s The Jess Cagle Show how the reunion selfie came to be.
He also shed some light on how his Elliot Stabler character has changed, since he was last seen on SVU in 2011.
Elliot returns: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fans rejoiced in late March when it was revealed that Christopher Meloni will return as Elliot Stabler in a new SVU spin-off called Organized Crime, reuniting with Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson
Selfie: Meloni, 59, set the Internet ablaze when he shared a selfie with Hargitay, explaining on Sirius XM ‘s The Jess Cagle Show how the reunion selfie came to be
When Cagle asked where Meloni and Hargitay were when they took the selfie, the actor said he was simply in the neighborhood.
‘She has some digs out in the country there, so I was out there visiting and doing other stuff and I thought, “Why not just drop by for a spot of tea?”‘ he said.
‘So that’s what we did. We broke bread, we had some laughs,’ he said, adding they can be ‘away from each other’ for many years and ‘just pick up where we left off.’
Visiting: When Cagle asked where Meloni and Hargitay were when they took the selfie, the actor said he was simply in the neighborhood
Laughs: ‘So that’s what we did. We broke bread, we had some laughs,’ he said, adding they can be ‘away from each other’ for many years and ‘just pick up where we left off’
When Cagle asked if he’s started filming Organized Crime, Meloni referred to it as a ‘pandemic production.’
‘You know, everything is just insane,” he said. ‘You get new edicts out of New York City and New York state, and for good reason. And then you get new rules and regulations coming out of Universal, and then from the unions.’
‘You have to service a lot of masters right now, just to make sure everybody is safe, right? What’s the new norm for shooting?’ he added.
Pandemic production: When Cagle asked if he’s started filming Organized Crime, Meloni referred to it as a ‘pandemic production’
Edicts: ‘You know, everything is just insane,” he said. ‘You get new edicts out of New York City and New York state, and for good reason. And then you get new rules and regulations coming out of Universal, and then from the unions’
He added that the, ‘writers are breaking rocks, trying to figure out the arc of the story, who the characters are and how they interact, and I have yet to see a script.’
While Meloni hasn’t seen a script yet, he added his thoughts about how Stabler has changed in the past nine years since he was last seen on SVU.
He said that he didn’t find his character regressing ‘particularly interesting,’ admitting he was ‘flawed’ but his ‘heart was always in the right place.’
Stabler: While Meloni hasn’t seen a script yet, he added his thoughts about how Stabler has changed in the past nine years since he was last seen on SVU
Heart: He said that he didn’t find his character regressing ‘particularly interesting,’ admitting he was ‘flawed’ but his ‘heart was always in the right place’
‘I think it was his sense of injustice that just brought out the worst aspects of him. I think age, a mellowing, maybe not in his passions but in how he went about doing his job,’ he added.
‘I think he has evolved, I think he’s in a good place now with his family, I think he’s at a much better place with himself vis-à-vis the world,” he shared.
There is no word yet on when Organized Crime will start filming, or when it may air on NBC.
Filming: There is no word yet on when Organized Crime will start filming, or when it may air on NBC
Evolved: ‘I think he has evolved, I think he’s in a good place now with his family, I think he’s at a much better place with himself vis-à-vis the world,” he shared