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The one where Mariska Hargitay<\/a><\/strong> almost missed her calling.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em>\u00a0star recently reflected on her dreams of being a comedic actress and the role she had her eye on to help her get her start.<\/p>\n \u201cI did Seinfeld<\/em>, I did Single Guy<\/em>,\u201d the 60-year-old shared with Amy Poehler<\/strong>\u00a0on the Oct. 21 episode of the Good Hang<\/a><\/em>\u00a0podcast. \u201cI tested for Friends<\/a><\/em>, so many times. I think it\u2019s Monica.\u201d<\/p>\n The role of Monica Geller ultimately went to Courteney Cox<\/strong>, who played\u00a0the role alongside costars\u00a0Jennifer Aniston<\/strong>, Matthew Perry<\/strong>, Lisa Kudrow<\/strong>, David Schwimmer<\/strong>\u00a0and Matt LeBlanc<\/strong>\u00a0for 10 seasons. However, the comedic route simply didn\u2019t pan out for Mariska.<\/p>\n \u201cI always thought that I would end up being on a sitcom or doing comedy,\u201d she shared. \u201cAnd it\u2019s so funny, I\u2019m in LA, struggling actor. I think it was after ER<\/em>. I was like, \u2018What am I going to do? What am I going to do?\u2019 I loved ER<\/em>\u00a0but I had a development\u00a0deal with DreamWorks, and I was developing a show, and it was a la Ally McBeal<\/em>, where it was a\u00a0dramedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The one where Mariska Hargitay almost missed her calling.\u00a0 The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit\u00a0star recently reflected on her dreams of being a comedic actress and the role she had her eye on to help her get her start. \u201cI did Seinfeld, I did Single Guy,\u201d the 60-year-old shared with Amy Poehler\u00a0on the Oct. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mariska-Hargitay-Auditioned-for-Friends.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109645,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109643\/revisions\/2109645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}