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How Mariska Hargitay got Brooke Shields to guest
star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
It all started when Hargitay attended a screening of a
project starring both actress Ali Wentworth (who is another close friend of Hargitay’s and a former SVU guest star) and Shields.
“Brooke was the guest star and was so brilliant and so dark and so funny, and so beautiful and so powerful,” Hargitay told Meyers.
“So, when I saw her, I thought, like, ‘She’s it.’ Because we had this character in mind to come, you know, stir it up.”
Hargitay then went on to describe how she pitched the role to Shields. “We were sitting there, and I said: ‘Listen, there’s an amazing part. Would you ever consider doing an arc on the show?’ And she said: ‘Oh wow, are you serious?'”