When you hire Mariska Hargitay to host the Emmys, the fact that she has a few friends in high places pays off. And that starts with Taylor Swift.
\n\n“They’re genuine friends,” executive producer Dionne Harmon said. “She’s like, ‘lemme hit Tay Tay!’”
\n\nEmmy executive producers Jesse Collins, Harmon and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay from Jesse Collins Entertainment and NBCUniversal live events and specials exec VP Jen Neal met with reporters immediately after Monday night’s Emmy telecast wrapped to share some behind-the-scenes details about this year’s show — and of course, the top questions revolved around Swift’s surprise appearance in a pre-tape parody of Hargitay’s “Law & Order: SVU.”
\n\nThe idea was among the first to come up when Hargitay met with her writers (led by Ariel Dumas from “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”) — and they immediately started brainstorming things for Swift to do.
\n\n“That was an idea that Taylor responded to,” Collins said of the sketch, which centered on the “SVU” team trying to figure out how or if Swift would show up at the Emmys. Swift played a fellow detective attempting to decipher some of the codes that would signal the superstar’s plans on the night.
\n\n“Their whole conversation…
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