“She’s fearless, without the bravado of the warrior stance, but always with the open arms, the open heart,” he continued. “She’s a connector of people, because she knows we’re all better when we’re working together. She is as comfortable in the sacred as she is in the profane; she is a soul in the constant search of the beauty and the truth that she knows that this world holds, but she also knows requires vigilance, persistence, and insistence to pry magic from the often times mundane reality. Her first instance is to always react with compassion and empathy. She sees hope in the hopeless; she sees the potential in the you, and me, and us.”
Yep, we are definitely crying now. And perhaps Hargitay is too.
“I’m trying to take it all in and be present,” she said of the Glamour accolade. “It’s very meaningful to me because, in the world that I’m in with the show, it’s like a marathon for these 21 years and it’s an honor to sit in that accomplishment of 500 episodes…It’s deeply meaningful.”
