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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Is Mariska Hargitay Finally Leaving Law & Order: SVU? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Mariska Hargitay has played Detective Olivia Benson for 27 seasons
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Speaker 2: on Law & Order SVU, giving her the record.
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Speaker 1: For the longest-running dramatic character in TV history.
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Speaker 3: She'll eclipse 600 episodes this fall, which has led to
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Speaker 3: speculation about when exactly she'll step away from the role.
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Speaker 4: And she admits to Variety that back around season 25,
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Speaker 4: she considered leaving even though she loved making SVU because
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Speaker 4: she didn't want to be a one-trick pony.
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Speaker 2: Instead of leaving, she just started doing. She said yes
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Speaker 2: to other dream projects. And even though she didn't understand
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Speaker 2: how she'd have the time, she made My Mom Jane,
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Speaker 2: a documentary about her mom and legendary actress Jane Mansfield.
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Speaker 1: Who she never knew, which racked up three Emmy nods.
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Speaker 3: Then she's starting to play on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing,
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Speaker 3: doing a six-week run while on hiatus from SVU.
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Speaker 4: And next summer, if she's not doing another movie, she'll
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Speaker 4: do another play, and she loves it. So she's like,
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Speaker 4: why on earth would I leave SVU?
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Speaker 2: And SVU's creator Dick Wolf has hinted at a 30-year
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Speaker 2: goal for the show, so it's likely she'll stay put
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Speaker 2: for at least that long.
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Speaker 1: Oh, one last thing. Mariska's also hosting the Emmys tonight.
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Speaker 1: Live on NBC.
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Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.