Like she said in the season premiere, Law & Order: SVU‘s Lt. Olivia Benson is the one who usually asks the child-welfare questions — not the one under pressure to answer them.
So
when the lieutenant found herself fielding suspicious questions from a
District Attorney’s Office investigator in this week’s episode,
portrayer Mariska Hargitay
noted at a recent press event, Benson went from uncomfortable to
hopping mad before she could help herself. “That’s why I’m like, ‘I’m the one, I’m the arbiter of justice. I’m the truth-teller. You don’t question me ever, and that’s what it is,'” she said.
When
the investigator asked if Olivia had been abusing her son, “I have to
defend myself, and at first, you’re like, ‘Keep your s–t together,'”
Hargitay said. But when the woman questioned Liv about her sessions with
Dr. Lindstrom, then insinuated that the way Olivia had beaten her
attacker William Lewis was an indicator of overall anger issues, things
quickly got heated.
“It
was also, ‘How dare you?’ Like, ‘How dare you question my integrity and
how much I love my kid?'” Hargitay adds, teasing that things will only
get more intense in coming episodes. “The crazy lady comes out, and it’s
powerful.”
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