Mariska Hargitay Shares Unfiltered Opinion About Taylor Swift’s Future as ‘SVU’ Guest Star
Taylor Swift’s fans are well aware of her love of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. After all, the pop superstar named one of her cats after Olivia Benson, the character played by Mariska Hargitay.
But will the “Anti-Hero” songstress ever have a cameo on the police procedural, as she has with shows like New Girl and CSI?
When E! News asked about Swift’s potential future on the long-running NBC crime drama, Hargitay, who has played Benson ever since the series premiered in 1999, said that she and other Swifties “can certainly dream, can’t we?”
Hargitay, 60, has made her appreciation of Swift’s music well-known over the years. Despite her personal role within the Swift fandom, Hargitay acknowledged that the “Fortnight” singer is “very busy,” though Hargitay added that she is “not letting it go,” suggesting that she, at the very least, is interested in having Swift, 34, make a guest appearance at some point in the future.
Hargitay’s response to the question about Swift’s future with SVU came shortly before the show’s launch of its newest season. The Season 26 premiere is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 3.
Though Hargitay’s answer didn’t make it seem like a Swift guest appearance is in the foreseeable future, fans are getting excited to see the 14-time Grammy Award winner return to the public eye in another capacity when her popular Eras Tour resumes this month.
The tour, which first kicked off in the U.S. in March 2023, traveled abroad for much of 2024, with Swift bringing its European leg to an end back in August. She is slated to perform nine dates in the U.S., starting in Miami, Fla., on Oct. 18 and ending in Indianapolis, Ind., on Nov. 3. She is then expected to bring her Eras Tour to Canada for a swing through Toronto and Vancouver, where she will deliver her final performance of the tour on Dec. 8.