Mariska Hargitay is aware of star energy when she sees it.
The “Law & Order: SVU” actor stopped by Amy Poehler’s podcast, “Good Hang,” on Tuesday and recounted two fellow performers she got here throughout who made her go “Holy God.”
Hargitay informed Poehler first about assembly actor Abigail Breslin, who was 7 years outdated when she appeared on “SVU.”
“She was so young on the show. She kept doing this dance between takes … some kind of dance, and I started doing it with her,” Hargitay stated. “It was some funny little nursery rhyme schtick. I don’t know what it was, but I would just do it with her, and then they would say ‘Action!’ And I swear to God ― I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it.”
Hargitay stated that Breslin “would turn” and immediately embody her character.
“One tear, and start lip quivering ― no acting,” she recalled. “I remember going, ‘What the fuck, are you, like, Meryl Streep?’”
After the director yelled minimize, Hargitay stated, Breslin would simply be a daily 7-year-old once more and would “go back to her nursery rhyme.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, there’s something. This kid is touched.’ She is so magical,” Hargitay stated, earlier than revealing the second actor she met who struck her.
“Another person that I called it ― and I remember saying it to her ― is Meghann Fahy,” Hargitay stated of the star who later discovered fame on “The Bold Type” and “White Lotus.”
“When she did the show, I was like, ‘Let me tell you something. I’m just going to tell you right now, you’re going to be a big movie star. You’re going to be a huge star.’”
Apart from Fahy’s apparent “talent” and “light,” Hargitay stated, she “was so sparkly, internally.”
“And there have just been people that have come through where you go, ‘Oh ― oh, wow.’ And it’s almost like an effortless, beautiful light, and it’s so exciting,” she stated.
Now, when she sees Breslin, who turned an Academy Award nominee at age 10, and Fahy, who received a Display Actors Guild Award, Hargitary reacts with pleasure.
“It’s so exciting to see them go on and go, ‘I called it ― I called it!’”
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