Sarah Rafferty solely desires one of the best for her Fits‘ character’s fictional romance with Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter.
Rafferty reunited with fellow fits stars Patrick J. Adams, Dule Hill and Amanda Schull on the 2024 ATX TV Competition in Austin, Texas, and sat down with ET’s Cassie DiLaura on Sunday to speak in regards to the large resurgence within the present’s recognition, and the place they really feel their characters could be as we speak.
For Rafferty, the query specifically was the place would “Darvey” — the portmanteau of her character, Donna, and Macht’s character, Harvey — could be 5 years after the present ended.
“That is such an excellent query for [Suits creator] Aaron Korsh,” Rafferty mentioned with fun. “The place would Darvey be proper now? They’d be blissful.”
The unique present — which additionally starred Gina Torres, Rick Hoffman, Katherine Heigl and Meghan Markle — got here to an finish in September 2019 after an eight-year run on USA Community. It adopted a gaggle of legal professionals, paralegals and others within the subject on a day-to-day foundation at an NYC-based agency.
After wrapping up the sequence the 12 months earlier than the coronavirus pandemic started, the present picked up renewed curiosity throughout lockdown and steadily developed a resurgence in recognition and was probably the most streamed present of 2023.
“My daughter has watched the present, and her mates, ‘trigger she’s in college,” Hill shared. “So she was in school when all of the resurgence was occurring.”
“She hasn’t watched the entire thing, her schedule is busier than anyone within the household,” Hill added.” [But] fortunately she already thinks that I am a cool dad, and this simply provides to it.”
In gentle of this new curiosity and rising fanbase, Rafferty and Adams have teamed up for Sidebar: A Fits Watch Podcast, the place they are going to watch episodes and mirror on the expertise of creating the present.
Sharing a message to the followers, Adams expressed, “I simply wish to say thanks once more.”
“We’re watching it for this podcast, and I’ve a brand new appreciation, not only for the fan base however for the work itself within the present, and the way everybody in it’s so breath-takingly good,” Adams praised. “The extra that we hear from the followers, the extra that we discuss to them, we’re actually excited to have them be part of our podcast, participating with them, getting their voices and getting their questions. So I simply hope that they attain out to us and proceed to have interaction within the present and proceed to maintain watching it.”
For all of the solid members, it appears being part of the beloved sequence was a novel and particular expertise.
“There’s one thing so magical in regards to the sense of belonging that you just get to have,” Rafferty recalled. “All of us did one million pilots. And there was all that guesting on different individuals’s reveals, and I all the time dreamed of getting a spot that felt like dwelling. After which I nearly could not consider it when Fits occurred.”
Echoing this sentiment, Adams defined how being a part of such a tight-knit solid is “type of indescribable, to be sincere.”
“It is a degree of intimacy and friendship and household that I had by no means skilled exterior of my family,” Adams mentioned. “You possibly can end one another’s sentences. You possibly can inform you understand one another, you know the way to push one another’s buttons and you know the way to make one another chortle and you know the way to consolation one another.”
And making the expertise even higher, within the wake of the present’s resurgence, is the information that it is one thing of a comfort-watch for lots of people.
“We’ve this stunning alternative as actors to the touch the lives of individuals we might by no means meet,” Schull shared. “And what reward [it is] to have been on a present that… may assist individuals out throughout a time when some individuals have been struggling, over the past couple of years. And to convey some levity into somebody’s front room. That is an actual honor.”
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