I’m not entirely sure when it happened, but it seems like Marisa Tomei is all about the rock-out-with-your-frock-, er, off. First she popped up in her altogether as a trophy wife in last year’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, and now she’s playing a stripper in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. And you know what? Good for her. Why do I say that? Because she’s doing what had been derided as a thespianic cliche for years, nudity, because the character required it. Read More...
Time heals (almost) all wounds. For Mariska Hargitay, the longtime leading lady of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, that phrase is especially apt. As Hargitay and her costar Ice-T rewatched some of the show’s most pivotal moments to celebrate 25 seasons for EW’s latest digital cover, one scene still had tears falling freely down Hargitay’s face, even more than a decade later. After season 12 of the series ended on a cliffhanger following a shootout between Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and a teenage girl in the squad room, Meloni didn’t return to the series for the 13th season, which meant Olivia Benson was suddenly (and permanently) without her partner. Read More...
Karma is a cat. Specifically, it's Taylor Swift's kitty Olivia Benson, and the feline's namesake — the character played by Mariska Hargitay on the long-running procedural drama Law & Order: SVU. Hargitay made her connection to the pop star's pet a full-circle moment Tuesday when she attended Swift's Eras Tour in Los Angeles. The actress posted about the experience on Instagram, including snaps of her sporting a 1989 T-shirt and selfies with Today host Savannah Guthrie and Only Murders in the Building star Selena Gomez. Read More...
