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Good evening, everyone.

I'm Scott Feinberg, the Hollywood Reporter's Executive Editor of Awards coverage and the host of our Awards Chatter podcast on which every week I have the privilege of spending

an hour going over the major moments in life and career of a great artist from our industry. This episode

I'm going to say for our listeners is being recorded at the Napa Valley Stream Festival in

beautiful Napa, California. Second year in a row that we're doing an episode from here, so

thank you to the festival and thank you for coming out.

And I'm especially excited because tonight we have a very special guest, one of the greatest TV stars of all time, who is also one of the most exciting new film directors.

She is, of course, best known for playing Olivia Benson on NBC's Law and Order Special Victims

Unit, a show about the investigation and prosecution of sex-related crimes, which is

currently rolling out its 27th season.

That number is hard to wrap one's head around, so to give you a clear sense of just how long

SVU has been on the air and entertaining millions, consider the following. It debuted in 1999,

the same year as the Sopranos. It's the only live-action show that started in the 20th century

that's still running. And with the premiere of its 21st season way back in 2019, it

became the longest-running primetime drama series in American TV history, passing

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