(L) Kelli Giddish and Mariska Hargitay.Photo:Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Mariska Hargitayis beyond excited to reunite withKelli Giddishonce again!
In a photo shared to her Instagram account on April 2, theLaw & Order: SVUlead, 60, gave fans some insight into her on-set reunion with Giddish, 43.
Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson, could be seen wearing a black overcoat and a police badge on her belt as she excitedly posed next to Giddish with her script in the air and a big smile on her face. Meanwhile, Giddish, who was fashioned as her character Amanda Rollins, wore blue jeans, a cream-colored sweater and a matching overcoat. She smiled in the photo next to her costar.
“#Reunited and it feels so good!” Hargitaywrote in the caption of her post, before adding the hashtags, “#MeAndMyGirl #raindropskeepfallingonmyhead #DynamicDuo #GirlPower #LadyBosses #FierceFriendship #Svu25.”
In August 2022, PEOPLE confirmed that Giddish would beleavingLaw & Order: SVUin season 24.
The actress left the series midway through season 24 in December of the same year. However, she returned fora cameo in the season finale, which was part of a crossover withLaw & OrderandLaw & Order: Organized Crime.
In the episode, Rollins was pregnant and expecting her first child with Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi (Peter Scanavino). She stepped away from the SVU squad after accepting a job as a criminology professor at Fordham University.
(L) Kelli Giddish and Mariska Hargitay on ‘Law and Order: SVU’.Zach Dilgard/NBC
Once her final episode aired, Giddish spoke exclusively to PEOPLEabout her bittersweet exit.
“It’s funny because, after last night’s show, it does feel more final now. I didn’t expect today to feel that way,” she explained. “Now it’s over and everyone’s seen it. Everyone’s gotten to experience it and feel all the feels that I felt, filming that last scene with Mariska.”
“Back with my lil boo thang,” Hargitay captioned a photo where the two were dressed similar to their characters.
NBC, the network that airs the long-running scripted crime drama, commented under the post, “This is everything to me rn.”
According to thenetwork, Giddish’s return is set to air in episode 11 of season 25.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unitairs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
source: people.com
