Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Christopher Meloni
OF ‘LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME’ ON NBC
Having been on shows such as “Veep,”
“True Blood” and “The Handmaid’s Tale”
during the last decade, do you look back
on your professional years after “Special
Victims Unit” with satisfaction?
It’s great to be back (as Stabler), but I never
had one bit of regret in the intervening years.
With almost every job I took, I thought to
myself, “This is why I left ‘SVU.’ I wanted to tell
this kind of story, or I wanted to have this kind
of experience.” I’ve had a very happy, fun,
fulfilling 10 years. I ran around the world and
worked on things I wanted to work on, and
now, I’m back.
Before resuming the role, did you have
any thoughts about how Elliot Stabler’s
life would have progressed between “Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Law
& Order: Organized Crime”?
I did, and it actually dovetailed pretty closely
to what (the new show’s writers and producers
decided), just with a different route in getting
there.
I fondly look back on all the different people
I’ve worked with and all the stories told. I got
to work on this show called “Happy,” which
was just this outlandish, “Who Framed Roger
Rabbit”-esque thing, but a little darker. We
brought a graphic novel to life, and what an
experience. And before that, I did “42” –
the Jackie Robinson story – and I remember
walking around thinking, “This is something
important and meaningful.” That really meant
so much to me.
And as for doing a Superman movie (“Man
of Steel”), I’d never been in the belly of the
beast of a quarter-billion-dollar movie before.
And there I was, going, “Oh, so this is how it’s
done. This is what it takes.” I’ve walked through
it all very satisfied.
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