“I said, ‘You keep writing like this, I’ll stay for 25 years.’

Why would I leave?

I’m so grateful.”

Marsika Hargitay posing on the red carpet

“I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do, keep moving forward.”

In the 500th episode, a very special case brings Amaro back to SVU.

It was meaningful not only for the characters to reunite, but the actors playing them as well.

Danny Pino smiling