Patrick J. Adams Was Never Proud of Suits Until Resurgence

Patrick J. Adams didn’t feel super proud of his work on Suits until its resurgence — and his rewatch podcast, “Sidebar,” with costar Sarah Rafferty.

“I don’t know that I was [proud] before,” Adams, 43, explained on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast on Tuesday, November 26. “I think what we’re doing with the podcast is maybe trying to check into that a little bit more. The pride. Not pride solely, but gratitude and joy around it and be like, ‘Look at what we did. This is really good.’”

The Plan B actor, who starred as lawyer Mike Ross in the legal drama from 2011 to 2018, noted that he only watched a few episodes of the show before it gained popularity again in 2023.

“I would get too in my head,” Adams shared. “And then something about the resurgence a couple of years ago and then seeing that all these people were doing these rewatch shows and thinking like, ‘Wait a minute. We could do that? Like, it would be fun.’ I love podcasts. And I love being able to sit and talk to Sarah and other people along the way, but like to formalize the process of it.”

Adams attributes the resurgence of Suits to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes of last year.

“It certainly reached a whole new audience of people and all the people who watched it the first time, watched it again,” he told Ferguson, 49. “I felt it in the world … suddenly people were interested in Mike Ross again. I was like, ‘What’s happening? I thought this was over.’”

Suits is centered around Mike, a college dropout with a photographic memory who talks his way into a job at New York’s best law firm, Pearson Hardman, where he works alongside one of the city’s top closers, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). The series also starred Rafferty, Meghan Markle, Gina Torres, Amanda Schull, Dulé Hill and Katherine Heigl.

Following the success of Suits on Netflix, NBCUniversal announced the spinoff show Suits L.A. in July. The spinoff will star Stephen Amell as Ted Black, a former federal prosecutor from New York who has “reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles.” While the series is set to have a new cast aside from Macht, 52, Adams noted that he would be open to participating in the show.

“If I got the phone call, I’m ready to suit up again,” he told reporters during the Golden Globes preshow in January. “I love the show, I love the character. And I loved working with all these people. … Who knows, maybe he’ll show up one day in L.A.”