Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay Teased Fans With a Steamy Benson & Stabler Pic


Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay are doing their best to break the Internet.

Ever since Meloni returned to the Law & Order verse to reprise his role as Elliot Stabler on L&O: SVU as well as his own series, L&O: Organized Crime, fans of the series reawakened their hopes that the detective would begin a romantic relationship with his former partner Olivia Benson (Hargitay). 

Well, it looks like the actors are dead-set on giving the people what they want. On August 21, Meloni responded to a fan who tweeted some steamy pics of them, writing, “Can y’all imagine if one day @Chris_Meloni and @Mariska posts a picture like this pretending they are kissing with the caption #Rehearsing It would be the end of us and the end of the internet.”

He responded with a fresh pic of the pair doing exactly that, writing, “Rehearsing what @Mariska?” She quote-tweeted the post adding, “Are you blushing? it’s getting hot in here 🔥 @Chris_Meloni.” 

In less than 24 hours, Meloni’s post had 14.4K, while Hargitay’s has reached 13.8K likes on Twitter. To say fans were excited about the pic is an understatement. 

“You are abusing your power over us!! I am dying here,” one user tweeted. “Hopefully you are rehearsing for a real scene that will literally send us to the hospital! Oh! How I love you guys!”

Another wrote, “Do you guys just hang out and say how are we going to torture the fandom today!? WHO IS INFLUENCING WHO HERE!?” Meanwhile, one fan would love it if the pair could schedule their Internet-breaking moments for when they are not trying to buy a new phone. 

Ahead of Christopher Meloni’s return for SVU‘s season 22 premiere, the pair opened up about their chemistry in a joint interview with People. “Ring that bell, and you get right into Stabler and Benson,” Meloni said in February. Hargitay added, “There was so much shorthand between us, which all goes back to the trust we have. He’s always made me feel like I could just jump off the ledge, the cliff, the bridge, and he would catch me, in so many ways, whether it was comedy or acting or friendship.”

According to Hargitay, they forged a partnership on and off-screen well before the series premiere in 1999 when they did their first screen test. “I walked in, saw him, and I went, ‘That guy. That’s the guy.’ It went deep, very fast,” Hargitay explained. “We both knew that it was something big. I won’t say that I fully understood it, but I knew that meeting him was important and life-changing.”






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