After a strong nine-season run, the legal drama Suits—the very same show that provided Meghan Markle with her breakout role—is set to drop its final episode this week after being on the air for almost 10 years, and one series star in particular, Patrick J. Adams, is sending the show off with a bang.
In tribute to the show that he spent much of his career starring in, Adams took to Instagram to post his thoughts on the series’s ending: “This week the last episode of Suits will air and the nearly 10 year journey we’ve all been on together will finally be over,” he said. “So it seems right to post some photos the next couple of days from the early days. This photo was from the first fitting I ever had for Mike Ross.”
And post he did, following his first tribute post with a tonne of never before seen, behind-the-scenes photos from his time on the Suits set, which featured many familiar cast mates, including Rick Hoffman (AKA Louis Litt), Sarah Rafferty who plays his quipply colleague Donna Paulsen, and of course, his on-screen wife Meghan Markle—now the Duchess of Sussex—who starred along Adams for seven seasons before her show exit.
Including many an on-set snap of Markle, Adams shared a series of previously unseen photos of the then-actress, including a photo of her in front of her old trailer, one in a bathrobe and her signature pointed pumps, and another of her draped across a couch in what looks to be a moment of boredom between scenes.
But although these behind-the-scenes looks at a pre-royal Markle are completely excitement-inducing—particularly after our short-lived excitement over her lifestyle blog, The Tig’s, rumoured relaunch, the rumours soon being cut down and denied by Buckingham Palace—we have to admit we’re a little surprised Adams made the bold move of posting photos of the duchess given his past experience with the same process.
Having instated a self-imposed social media blackout in 2017 after receiving a tonne of backlash for posting a throwback photo with himself and his former co-star, Adams learned at the time that he lived in a world “where you can’t post things about Meghan”, as he stated in an interview with Esquire.
Of course, the particular time period that this social media snafu occurred was in the months before Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry, so it’s likely that any presence of the now-royal on the internet was subject to extremely tight restrictions.
Image credit: courtesy of USA Network
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