Mariska Hargitay Reveals Shocking Mental Trick to Ease Onstage Anxiety
Ever wonder how Emmy hosts keep their cool when staring out at a sea of dazzling, A-list faces—or is it just me who’d consider picturing the audience as a crime scene straight out of Law & Order: SVU? Well, Mariska Hargitay just proved there’s more than one way to calm pre-show jitters . Imagine having to impress a room full of Hollywood royalty, only to squash your stage fright by envisioning them all in grisly demise… It’s the kind of bold mental gymnastics that even my jaded SEO brain hadn’t clocked before . There’s something oddly comforting (and a little off-kilter) about taming nerves not with deep breaths or gentle mantras, but with a grim roll-call of fictional body bags . Maybe I’ve been doing this wrong—should I try picturing every Google engineer as a murder-mystery victim before my next big algorithm update? In any case, if you’re curious just how sideways this coping strategy went for Mariska, you’re in for a treat . LEARN MORE
LOS ANGELES—Taking a deep breath as she peeked her head out from the wings of the Peacock Theater, Primetime Emmy Awards host Mariska Hargitay reportedly calmed her nerves before the show Monday evening by picturing the entire audience brutally murdered. “Okay, Mariska, you got this, just imagine them all with their throats slashed,” said the longtime Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress, closing her eyes and trying to imagine front row occupants Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell lying on the floor in a pool of blood. “Okay, that’s better. Jean Smart isn’t so intimidating when I picture her with her limbs sawed off by a sadistic sex criminal called the Bronx Butcher. Remember, it’s just a sea of nameless victims murdered in cold blood, not a room full of stars and executives you want to impress. Just go out there and do your job.” At press time, the technique had backfired after Hargitay imagined all the corpses laughing at her.
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