{"id":83572,"date":"2023-03-17T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/nicholas-braun-recalls-svu-guest-spot-christopher-meloni-pinching-him-in-the-ribs\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:10:44","slug":"nicholas-braun-recalls-svu-guest-spot-christopher-meloni-pinching-him-within-the-ribs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/nicholas-braun-recalls-svu-guest-spot-christopher-meloni-pinching-him-within-the-ribs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Braun Recalls &#8216;SVU&#8217; Guest Spot &#038; Christopher Meloni Pinching Him within the Ribs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/christopher-meloni-nicholas-braun-svu-succession.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Like many different actors, <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/succession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Succession<\/em><\/a> star <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/nicholas-braun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Braun\u2019s<\/a> early days as an actor included a visitor spot on the long-running <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/network\/nbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a> drama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/law-order-special-victims-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em><\/a>. (It premiered in 1999 and is at present in its twenty fourth season.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very exciting role. I played, I think, a character without a name, Boy in Internet Caf\u00e9, because those existed at the time,\u201d Braun recalled when he stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/live-with-kelly-and-ryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Live with Kelly and Ryan<\/em><\/a> forward of his <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/network\/hbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO<\/a> drama\u2019s return for its fourth and last season on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking at a video of the woman who got murdered or sexually assaulted because that\u2019s the show, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/christopher-meloni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Meloni<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/ice-t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ice-T,<\/a> I think, come down and sit down, and they\u2019re like, \u2018why are you watching this video?\u2019\u201d he continued. (It was really <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/richard-belzer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Belzer<\/a> with Meloni, and Ice-T got here as much as them later.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually it\u2019s funny because Chris Meloni didn\u2019t think I was getting scared enough by them as cops, so when he comes, and he sits down, he\u2019d pinch me in the ribs,\u201d Braun shared. \u201cEvery take, he would sit down, and at the end of the day, I thought I did so badly because I needed a pinch \u2026 I guess I was supposed to go, \u2018oh, cops!\u2019 but instead, I was like, \u2018Ow! Ow!\u2019\u201d He was 11 or 12 on the time of his \u201cSVU initiation.\u201d Watch the complete video beneath.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"lUOHvIIP6FU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicholas Braun&#039;s First Role\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUOHvIIP6FU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The episode to which Braun is referring is Season 3, Episode 17, \u201cSurveillance,\u201d which aired March 8, 2002. In it, cellist Cassie Germaine (performed by a pre-<a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/bones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bones<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/emily-deschanel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Deschanel<\/a>!) is attacked in her condominium. Benson (<a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/mariska-hargitay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mariska Hargitay<\/a>) and Stabler\u2019s investigation reveals hidden cameras streaming Cassie\u2019s residence actions to a web site and a shrine.<\/p>\n<p>In Season 4 of <em>Succession<\/em>, \u201cthe sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/alexander-skarsgard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>) moves ever closer,\u201d HBO teases. \u201cThe prospect of this seismic sale provokes existential angst and familial division among the Roys as they anticipate what their lives will look like once the deal is complete. A power struggle ensues as the family weighs up a future where their cultural and political weight is severely curtailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Law &amp; Order: SVU<\/em>, Thursdays, 9\/8c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Succession<\/em>, Fourth and Final Season Premiere, Sunday, March 26, 10\/9c, HBO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Like many different actors, Succession star Nicholas Braun\u2019s early days as an actor included a visitor spot on the long-running NBC drama Law &amp; Order: SVU. (It premiered in 1999 and is at present in its twenty fourth season.) \u201cIt was a very exciting role. I played, I think, a character without a name, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}