Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay is opening up about the palpable shift that occurred on the set of the hit crime procedural once the show secured its first woman to serve as showrunner.
“I had a secret fantasy of having a female showrunner for … a few years,” Hargitay, 62, told Variety in an interview published on Saturday, June 12, commenting on the hit NBC show hiring Michele Fazekas as the show’s season 27 showrunner. (Fazekas, 49, worked in the show’s writers’ room for seasons 3 through 7.)
“Michele and I always connected. She was so smart, and those years on...
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