Meghan Markle Thought She 'Did a S----y Job' in Her “Suits ”Audition but the Show's Creator Recalls Her Coming in 'Spectacularly'

Meghan Markle walked out of her Suits audition not feeling the best.

On the Feb. 18 episode of her costars Patrick J. Adams and Sarah Rafferty's Sidebar podcast, creator Aaron Korsh and producing director Kevin Bray reflected on casting Markle as Rachel Zane in the series — and revealed that she thought she'd bombed.

When the Duchess of Sussex came in, Bray said they had "submitted and gotten rejected" on another actress to play Rachel, so they had again begun casting the "difficult part."

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"She's strong and has a strong point of view, and it was hard to be both strong, beautiful, and likable," Bray said. "It was almost the same difficulty with [casting] Gabriel [Macht] because it was hard to find people that could play both sides of it."

Korsch remembered Markle, 43, came in "spectacularly" — and she was dressed perfectly for the part, which helped.

"She came in at Tribeca, and she read for us, and everybody was just done. It's 4:00 in the afternoon, and I was like, do you guys see her? I ran out and got her, brought her back in, and I think I said, 'Charm them,' or some little note," Korsch said.

After her audition, Bray said Markle told him she "thought she did a s----y job."

"I remember. She thought she blew it and was not gonna get a callback, and then she was wrong."

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Adams said it was "clear" from the chemistry read Markle would get the part, a sentiment he's shared before.

"It was a difficult role to cast, and I think we knocked it out of the park," Bray said. 

Amid Suits' massive resurgence after it came to Netflix in June 2023, Markle has made a few rare comments about her time on the show, which she exited in 2018 and shortly thereafter married Prince Harry.

She called it "wild" on a red carpet in November 2023 as she reflected on why it was having so much success.

"It was great to work on, such a great cast and crew. We had a really fun time. I was on it for seven seasons, so quite a bit," she told Variety. “But it’s hard to find a show you can binge-watch that many episodes of these days, so that could have something to do with it. But good shows are everlasting."

She also got in touch with Adams, 43, after he and Rafferty announced their rewatch podcast in the fall.

"Upon hearing about the podcast, I got a lovely text, saying how excited she was for us and asking how she could help in any way," Adams wrote in a post on Reddit. "So lovely to still have that kind of support and friendship after so many years apart."

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