Patrick J. Adams, Meghan Markle’s former co-star on Suits, reflects on their time together.
Adams, 43, posted nine photos to Instagram on October 29, one of which was a previously unseen photo of the Duchess of Sussex, seemingly taken on the set of Suits. Before marrying Prince Harry in May 2018, Meghan, 43, portrayed spunky paralegal Rachel Zane in the blockbuster legal drama for the first seven seasons. The first seven seasons aired on USA Network from 2011 to 2018 and broke streaming records when they premiered on Netflix in June 2023.
The never-before-seen snapshot of Meghan showed her in a black v-neck blouse with a wishbone charm necklace, smokey eye makeup, and her hair free as she glanced downwards. A camera team and equipment in the backdrop suggested that the image was taken behind the scenes of Suits.
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“Well, @iamsarahgrafferty and I have formally petitioned to rename Tuesday Sidebar Day.” Adams commented beneath the photographs, tagging Suits co-star Sarah Rafferty and referencing their podcast, Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast. Adams commented beneath the photographs, tagging Suits co-star Sarah Rafferty and alluding to their podcast, Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast.
“Until then, watch our newest @suitssidebar episode Dirty Little Secrets, in which we discuss college pizza, clear up some misunderstandings regarding my towering height, and solve the question of why Jessica does not have an assistant. And I may or may not do a perfect William Wallace imitation,” Adams said, tagging SiriusXM Podcasts and SiriusXM.
The actor’s carousel began with a photo of him standing near Suits co-star Gabriel Macht and progressed to shots of Adams holding a camera and emerging from behind the door of what looked to be an on-set trailer.
Adams published the photos on the same day that he and Rafferty released the latest edition of their Suits Revisit podcast, which started in late September.
Over the first seven seasons of Suits, Adams and Meghan filmed several sequences together as their characters’ workplace romance—spoiler alert!—eventually led to a wedding. On Oct. 21, he revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that the Duchess of Sussex sent “a lovely text message” upon the launch of Sidebar: A Suits Rewatch Podcast, and in the podcast’s second episode, it was “pretty clear” Meghan would receive the Suits part immediately.
In the Oct. 1 episode, the accused actor said that he and Meghan “had done a pilot before” that was not picked up and “never saw each other again” until they were brought in for a chemistry read for Suits.
“I think just knowing each other and getting to calm down and not have those nerves of just getting to know one another really helped that chemistry read,” Adams told me. “We had a laid-back attitude when we entered the room. It was clear from the moment we finished the chemistry read that she was going to receive the part.
“It was significantly simpler than working with anyone else—she excelled and continues to excel in the show,” he informed me.
The Duchess of Sussex welcomed her Suits co-stars Adams, Rafferty, Macht, Rick Hoffman, Gina Torres, and Abigail Spencer to her 2018 royal wedding to Prince Harry at Windsor Castle, and Adams updated his Instagram bio last year with a subtle tribute to the Sussexes.
The bio line reads, “You’re watching the guy from that show on that app because that girl married that prince.”
Though Meghan announced in her engagement interview with Prince Harry in November 2017 that she would no longer be acting, Deadline reported in April that the couple was in the “early stages” of producing two new factual series for Netflix.
The Duchess of Sussex’s series will “celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining, and friendship,” while the Duke of Sussex’s show POLO, which is about the equestrian sport he competes in, will debut in December.
Meghan and Prince Harry, 40, struck a multiyear agreement with Netflix after leaving their royal responsibilities in the United Kingdom and migrating to her home state of California in 2020. According to the New York Times, the couple’s production company, Archewell Productions, will focus only on documentaries, docuseries, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming for the streamer.
Previous projects include Harry and Meghan, Live to Lead, and Heart of Invictus.