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Patrick J. Adams who plays the likeable, gifted—albeit fraudulent—lawyer, Mike Ross, in the hit television series Suits has spoken out about the first time he met co-star Meghan Markle.
In his new podcast, Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast, whom Sarah Rafferty, 51, (who played Donna Paulsen on the show), Adams, 43, says his chemistry read with Markle (who was auditioning to play Mike’s love interest Rachel) went really well. In fact, he says the chemistry between the actors was almost immediate.
“It was pretty clear, if I remember correctly, that she was going to get the part from the minute we did the chemistry read,” Adams revealed. “It was just so much easier than it was with anybody else.
“It was this scene and the next one where she walks Mike through the whole office,” he continued. “She crushed it and she crushes it in the show.”
You can watch the scene below.
Unbeknown to most Suits fans, Adams revealed Markle, 43, and he had actually worked together in the past.
“Meghan and I had done a pilot before, a terrible, terrible pilot together,” he told Rafferty. “I won’t even say the name of it, but you can IMDb it. There was a setting up of a romantic relationship in the pilot. And then, we never saw each other again. The pilot failed. It was terrible and went away. And so, we had never seen each other nor spoken to each other again.”
Suits arrived onto our screens in 2011 and lasted nine seasons. Its last air date was September 25 2019, although Markle had resigned the year prior when she began dating Prince Harry. Adams married fellow Suits co-star Troian Bellisario who played one of his girlfriends Clare Bowden. Both Adams and Bellisario were present at Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding.
