- Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, TV, 1999-2020. Slattery, Nick Chinlund and Gary Sinise were up for the latest Dick Wolf cop. “There’s no doubt who we should choose – Hargitay and Meloni,” said iconic producer Dick Wolf. They’d always been his favourites – “perfect chemistry!” – of the final group of three girls and four guys. Christopher scored 273 episodes and Mariska hit a record 479 episodes by 2020 as Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson – named after Wolf’s children. Slattery’s day would come – as quickly as the next paragraph…
- Jon Hamm, Mad Men, TV,2007-2015. “Being a selfish actor, I didn’t necessarily see the full potential in the beginning.” Slattery went in to read for the lead, Don Draper – and everyone preferred him for Don’s Madison Avenue boss, Roger Sterling. (His snow white hair did it!). During the whole pilot episode, “[Creator] Matt Weiner claims I was in a bad mood,” Slattery told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. “I had a couple of scenes, but I wasn’t as emotionally invested as some of the people because there wasn’t that much of Roger in evidence yet.”
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