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mariska hargitay has made it very clear how his name should be pronounced.
during Tuesday’s episode ok wait podcast Hosted by Amy Poehler, law & Order actor He opened up about the heritage of his name and how some family members mispronounce it.
“In Hungarian, the ‘ka’ or ‘ke’ at the end of the name is just like a little love,” she said, adding that the name is a nickname for Maria and translates to “Little Maria.”
“So the name is actually ‘Maria’ after my grandmother, they’re both Hungarian and Italian.”
According to the actor, his name is pronounced “muh-rish-kuh”. She still struggles with other people not saying it correctly.
“Who was that last night? I had lunch for my sister yesterday and my cousin was there,” she recalled saying to a family member who couldn’t pronounce her name correctly.
“Your own cousin?” Poehler said, to which Hargitay responded, “I’ve known him since 1994 and he’s been calling me ‘muh-ris-kuh.’
The activist thought about speaking out to make amends to her cousin at the time, but ultimately decided to “let it go.”
Harjeet said that apart from family members, he also had to correct people. law & Order set There was talk about how to pronounce her name, and even writing her name as “Marishka” on the call sheet.
“I’m called ‘muh-ritz-uh,’ ‘mar-see-kuh,’ ‘mar-kiss-kuh,'” he said. He said that his co-stars sometimes deliberately used wrong pronunciation to irritate him.
Hargitay isn’t the only actor who has had to specify how his name is pronounced. Last year, Florence Pugh was promoting a movie with Andrew Garfield in a Wired autocomplete interview. One of the most Googled questions about Pugh was People were wondering how to pronounce his last name correctly,
“Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew,” she said immediately as she made finger guns to mimic where the sound was coming from. “Or, like a pew, like a church pew.”
However, Garfield was convinced that the pronunciation was not completely accurate as he asked her, “How are you?” In fact How to pronounce it though?”
“Pugh,” the midsummer The star made a third comparison to his name, responding, “Yeah, it’s Hue but with a P.”
“Finally, let’s be honest,” Garfield continued. The actress laughed and replied, “Okay, it’s Pudge.”
In 2024, Timothée Chalamet also gave his clarification on this how to pronounce his name during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
“Honestly, it’s ‘Tim-oh-teh,'” Chalamet shared. “But I won’t force you to say it that way and it could be Timothy or Timmy or Doug or Alan.”
“It’s ‘Tim-oh-teh’?” Kimmel asked.
The actor replied, “That’s how it was meant to be – my parents cursed me for it.”