Mariska Hargitay

And I was trying to find it for years, really.

It was obviously one of the greatest days of my life.

Talk about integration, right?

Talk about a dream come true, and everything felt right in the world.

I had become sort of obsessed with her musical talents, and the fact that she played the violin and the piano so beautifully.

And so being able to see this...

thing, this piece that showed me this whole other side of her that connected me to her so deeply and sort of fulfilled all these dreams.

And through the making of this movie, I found this whole other person that I didn't know existed.

What a gift.

What a gift.

And also, I'd spent my life separating myself, being a tomboy.

I don't want to be that.

I don't want to be sexy.

I don't want to be that.

I'm not that.

I'm serious.

And I'm going to play a cop.

for my whole life and to go on this journey of seeing the similarities and again being able to integrate her because I had exercised her from my being and said yeah that's we're different and we don't have a lot in common and I am doing other things and I'm doing it a different way and

a lot of it's in reaction to the choices you made.

And here I am now sitting in this cozy place