00:00I think organized crime Stabler is sexier.
00:03I don't know, there's a certain fine wine quality to them.
00:06I'm definitely an older model.
00:09But, you know, that doesn't bother me in the least.
00:12It's, you know, okay, let's see if you can get a job looking like this, you know.
00:17I'm glad the answer is yes.
00:24What I remember about getting Elliot Stabler and being Elliot Stabler in 99
00:29was coming out of the screen test, getting the call from my agent
00:34that you got the role, and the idea of walking,
00:41your feet aren't touching the ground, you're walking on air.
00:44That sensation is the one and only time I've ever had that sensation.
00:49I mean, when I auditioned for it, I was like, I'm this guy.
00:54They don't hire me, that's fine.
00:56It's their mistake, but I'm this guy.
00:58And then the growing pains of doing it the first season
01:02and second season, beginning of second season,
01:05and then we finally kind of found the formula, found the thing.
01:09And second season, midway on,
01:12we got the identity of what we were.
01:16And for me personally, that's what it was that I went,
01:18oh, I'm on the road.
01:19I was getting it.
01:20I need to talk to my partner.
01:23I, sir, commanding officer, you're allowed to observe.
01:24He's not.
01:26I'll let you know when I'll be interviewing you.
01:28Captain, just shut it down.
01:29She's not thinking straight.
01:30She's sick.
01:30You never interviewed a sick perp.
01:33She's not a perp.
01:34When my mother was alive, she cherished the show because I think, A, her boy had made it.
01:44B, I get to play a hero cop who flawed and all that, although in her eyes I was not flawed,
01:53but at any rate, so that was a big deal.
01:56Do you see injustice happening right now?
01:58All the time, everywhere, every day.
02:00It is a place I know very well, and yet I'm not tired of doing.
02:05It's good storytelling with people that I like to work with.
02:10Yeah, you know, when they asked me to do the OC, I'd never had this feeling.
02:14It was like, oh, a little bit like going home.
02:16You know what you're doing.
02:18Hey, Elliot.
02:21Stop.
02:23It's a very unique feeling when we get together because it's echoes and remembrances of what
02:30we once were, what we are now, and no one else can bridge that gap or has that journey
02:37or has that connection.
02:38So, you know, you're sitting across from the person like, man, you're old and I'm old
02:42and it's all good and, you know, where we were and where we are and down.
02:47I wish I could bottle this.
02:50Bottle what?
02:51This.
02:51This moment.
02:53What's the sexiest part of that relationship?
02:55Oh, gosh.
02:57How well they know each other in kind of an unspoken way.
03:02And, you know, I think it's a depth of their friendship.
03:05And, you know, they've made these stabs or these attempts at making this thing another
03:13thing.
03:13I can't.
03:16Why not?
03:19Because...
03:19Well, you know, I think if they get together, oh, man, that's such a difficult thing to,
03:24for Benson and Stabler to get together, it's just, it's hard.
03:26It's hard.
03:29Some conclusion to Benson and Stabler.
03:32That's how I think both characters, Stabler and Benson, should ride off into the sunset.
03:39Well, I think it's hard.
03:50I think that's a great thing.
Comments