Giddish did a lot of research before diving into the gambling addiction story, but when it was time to uncover more of Rollins' secret past, she went to none other than SVU's mama bear.
"I talked to Mariska," Giddish said, referring to Law & Order: SVU star and producer Mariska Hargitay. "I talked to Mariska a lot. ‘Cause it's more of a feeling that I usually go off of. You do your research, literally, but it's like, ‘What's the overriding characteristics,' which is so not fair to say, but I picked out one person that I knew was a survivor and just kind of thought about her and her daily life and how maybe I can see it, how it affected her."
After Rollins revealed the truth about her past, Hargitay's Sergeant Benson tried to help the character by getting her into therapy. Rollins balked.
"That scene with Mariska, in her office, in that episode was probably my favorite because it's the whole, ‘I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine! I'm fine! I'm fine! I don't want to talk about it!' I think that's a main hurdle with a lot of people that have been assaulted," she said. "I felt myself doing it in the scene like, ‘No, I put myself in that situation,' and that's what's so heartbreaking."
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