Mariska Hargitay expected to be paired with John Slattery at her Law & Order: SVU audition

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"I walked in, she turns around and goes, 'Slattery!' I go, 'No, Meloni!'" Meloni tells People of their joint audition. "From that moment forward… we 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. We said to the execs there, 'Just give us one second. I just need to finish this story. It's really funny.' From then on it was like, 'We got this.'"