Reneé Rapp has a pitch for the writers of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
The actress-singer was recently asked for the Today show’s “8 Before 8” video series, “If you had a guest starring role on SVU, what character would you play?” And it’s safe to say she doesn’t want just a victim or killer role.
“Let me tell ya. I would be Mariska Hargitay‘s lover. She would be gay, finally,” Rapp responded, referring to the actress who plays Captain Olivia Benson on the long-running police procedural.
“There was an episode where they were talking about it and considering if she was gay,” the “Leave Me Alone” singer recalled. “I feel like Christopher Meloni’s character [Detective Elliot Stabler] was like, ‘No, like, you’re a lesbian.’ And she was like, ‘Um, no.’ Liar.”
As for how Rapp imagines her storyline unfolding on SVU, she added, “I would be her lover and we would somehow get tangled in an undercover kind of miss[ion], probably with a drug empire.”
Throughout SVU‘s 26-season run (and counting as the show returns for its 27th season this fall), Hargitay‘s character has seen several romantic interests; however, fans have overwhelmingly wanted Olivia Benson to end up with Meloni’s Elliot Stabler.
Meloni left Law & Order: SVU as a series regular in 2011, after 12 seasons, but has made guest appearances throughout the years and reprised his role in the spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime. He also recently teased on social media a potential return to SVU, sharing on-set photos with Hargitay and co-star Dann Florek. “Hangin with friends on a Friday nite,” he wrote in the caption.
As for Rapp, while she’s turned her focus to music recently, she rose to fame with her role as Leighton Murray on Sex Lives of College Girls and for playing Regina George in the Broadway adaptation of Mean Girls and later the movie musical. She also just released her sophomore album, Bite Me.