Christopher Meloni Reacts to Snaps with Law & Order Costar Mariska Hargitay from Red Carpet Outing
Meloni also snapped a selfie with Hargitay to mark the occasion at the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards
Christopher Meloni is giving fans some insight into his latest reunion with Mariska Hargitay.
After the duo joined forces and posed for snaps on the red carpet of the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, on Friday, Feb. 27, Meloni responded to fan questions about the outing — and even snapped his own selfie for a Stabler-Benson moment!
After a fan on X shared two photos of the actors posing together and sharing a hug alongside the question, “What’s the story here,” Meloni responded: “You know damn well what this story is.”
Meloni, 64, continued to entertain fan questions on the platform over the weekend, joking that one follower was “BLOCKED” after claiming his “glam squad they did a great job with your hair.”
He also shared a snap with his Law & Order: SVU costar after one fan in particular requested a “chriska selfie.” Meloni held up his phone and smiled alongside Hargitay, 62, who he first joined forces with for SVU in 1999. Another selfie shared to his X account featured appearances from the likes of S. Epatha Merkerson and the long-running drama’s executive producer Arthur W. Forney.
While Hargitay has been on SVU since its premiere, Meloni’s Elliot Stabler departed the show in season 12, which aired in 2011. He’s been back for crossovers, and Hargitay has appeared in Stabler’s spinoff, Law & Order: Organized Crime.
The longtime friends previously had a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit reunion at the 2025 Emmys back in September of last year. At the time, the duo arrived to the 77th annual Emmy Awards together, had a reunion during the ceremony and even left the star-studded event together.
Hargitay shared a recap of the evening to her Instagram, including a snap of the pals walking hand-in-hand. They also joined forces with Ice-T, Tony Goldwyn and Merkerson for the occasion.
Back in 2021, the actors caught up with PEOPLE about their bond over the years, with Meloni sharing that their connection “happened at the screen test,” as they both “walked into the screen test, me telling her a story, and we get up onstage in front of all the suits, and we’re just so engaged.”
“I walked in, saw him, and I went, ‘That guy. That’s the guy.’ It went deep, very fast. We both knew that it was something big,” Hargitay added. “I won’t say that I fully understood it, but I knew that meeting him was important and life-changing. My father, my husband, [Law & Order creator] Dick Wolf and Chris are the four pillar men in my life. And that happened early.”
