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Christopher Meloniknows you want him to kissMariska Hargitay.

He just isn’t convinced it would work.

“We were attempting something.

Mariska Hargitay as Capt. Olivia Benson, Christopher Meloni as Det. Elliot Stable

Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni on ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’.Credit:Virginia Sherwood/PEACOCK via Getty

I don’t think it worked.

“I care for you,” Stabler tells Benson, after a typically action-packed, emotionally draining mission.

But I can’t.”

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Christopher Meloni stars on ‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’.Will Hart/NBC

“I don’t go, ‘That’s what’s going to go on TV.

That’s what we’re going to air.’

We don’t have that power.

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If we do bait, at least for me, I always do it with a wink.

I think it’s good-natured, but maybe you guys are over that, and that’s valid.

“Y’all haven’t hooked up yet at all?

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“SVUstar Ice-T asked Hargitay duringEW’s digital cover shootin 2024.

“Close, right?

Almost a kiss?”

Hargitay joked back, “No, just two times in season 4!…

We have not hooked up.”

“Obviously, Dick gets final say.

It’s his show, and he didn’t want that.”

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