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Savannah Guthrie revealed where she stands on Mariska Hargitay and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Los Angeles debate
The pair discussed the pronunciation of the city’s name in an Actors on Actors conversation on Monday, June 15
“Well, here’s the problem with Jamie Lee’s argument,” Guthrie began
Jamie Lee Curtis and Mariska Hargitay sparked an internet debate over the pronunciation of one of the country’s largest cities this week — and now Savannah Guthrie has entered the chat.
The Today co-host, 54, sounded off on the pair’s viral Actors on Actors aside about how to pronounce “Los Angeles” during her Tuesday, June 16 broadcast alongside colleagues Willie Geist, Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones.
During Curtis and Hargitay’s joint interview for Variety and celebrity.land, published on Monday, June 15, the duo debated how to properly say the name of the city. Curtis, 67, pronounced it as “LOWS Angeles,” while Hargitay, 62, opted for more of a “LOSS Angeles.”
While Jones said the internet believed Curtis was “technically” right, Guthrie pointed out a flaw in Curtis’ argument.
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“Well, here’s the problem with Jamie Lee’s argument,” Guthrie said. “She’s saying ‘LOWS,’ which is correct in Spanish, ‘ANN-GELES.’ It should either be ‘LOWS AHN-GELES’ or ‘LOSS Angeles.'”
After her colleagues called her “judge Guthrie,” Guthrie compared the city’s name to that of Los Feliz and explained her way of thinking. “I’m from Arizona, there are a lot of towns where there’s the correct pronunciation and then there’s the way everybody says it.”
“And also, some people that mispronounce everything feel at home,” Hager said.
“I know you feel seen,” Guthrie joked.
Indeed, Curtis and Hargitay did not see eye to eye on how to pronounce the city’s name in their one-on-one discussion. The pair even asked those around them on the set of the interview how they pronounce the name of California’s most populous city. “Nobody says that. You guys, please God, let’s move on,” Hargitay said, before apologizing to Curtis for stopping her in the middle of saying “deep s—.”
“I am about to say something deep,” Curtis added. “It’s okay, you can laugh.”
The duo’s Actors on Actors chat wasn’t just focused on L.A. Hargitay also opened up about making her Broadway debut for a six-week run in Every Brilliant Thing, calling the opportunity a “dream come true” and comparing it to “playing” in a “different sandbox.”
“I am very unlike [SVU‘s] Olivia Benson, but nobody knows that except for my friends. Being onstage has been my lifelong goal,” Hargitay said. “[In my 20s], I became friends with the amazing [stage actress] Kathleen Chalfant. She said, ‘Don’t sell out and do TV.’ An hour later I got SVU. So that was a hard call to make. Getting this call from my agent with the offer for the play Every Brilliant Thing, I was pinching myself.”
Hargitay shared a similar sentiment with PEOPLE in her May cover story, explaining that she “identified with the character” in the process. “It definitely feels like you’re going out without a net, but that’s also the thrill of it,” she said. “Even though I’m still challenged at SVU, I know the drill. I’m a boss lady. I can say, ‘Cut. Sorry guys, let’s go again. Can we take it from the top?’” However, she can’t do that on Broadway, “but that’s the challenge,” she says. “Bring it on, baby, let’s do this.”
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