Yahoo Lifestyle 'Suits' Star Sarah Rafferty Is Excited to Watch the Darvey Slow-Burn for 'Sidebar' Podcast
Suits co-stars Patrick J. Adams and Sarah Rafferty are watching their hit legal drama for the first time and diving into behind-the-scenes secrets for the "Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast" on SiriusXM. The first episode covering the premiere of the show is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. They did not watch the show when it was originally airing on USA, so playing back those infamous moments that fans adore will be a first time experience for the cast and some of their upcoming guests.
Of course, that means that Rafferty will also get to enjoy the viewer experience of one of the slowest burn romances in TV history: Donna and Harvey (Gabriel Macht). When Parade talked to Rafferty and Adams this summer ahead of the launch of the podcast, Rafferty admitted that she's excited to see how fans experienced the romantic roll out of the show's central couple.
"We haven't gotten to it at all yet," the actress revealed. "I think it's going to make me laugh." Rafferty also admitted that she and Macht may have been a part of the hold up in getting Donna and Harvey officially together, which didn't happen until the final season of the show. "I remember there was an entire episode where they removed one scene and I was like, 'Are you guys having conversations about getting Harvey and Donna together without including us in those conversations?'" she said. "That was Season 7 and Gabriel and I agreed it was too soon."
For the first season at least, Rafferty and Macht had no idea that there was a romantic connection between Donna and Harvey at all. They found out in a flashback episode where the writers were planning to go.
"Gabriel and I were not playing a slow burn at all until we had a flashback and both us looked at each other. They revealed that Donna and Harvey had been together and had a thing. We both were like, 'I wasn't playing that. Were you playing that?," Rafferty explained.
"That's probably why it's so good," Adams added. "You were't actually playing it, it was just organically coming out of the interaction. If you had been playin git, it probably wouldn't have worked nearly as well as the natural dynamic."
Despite delaying the inevitable when making the show, Rafferty is pumped to get to see it play out as she and Adams watch the show for the podcast. "I'm excited to see it, actually. I'm excited to see how beautifully Aaron [Korsch, showrunner,] modulated it in the writing. I think it's going to make me giggle sometimes, and I'm glad people were happy that they got together as we were that we got to play them," she told Parade.
Meanwhile, Adams is having some anxiety about going through Mike's journey as a viewer and how it will correlate with the fears he had while making the show.
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"My experience was that once a person found out the secret and another person found out the secret, the show continued to try and find ways to put Mike back in a similar situation that he was in the beginning, in differing levels of success," Adams elaborated. "He goes to an investment bank. He obviously goes to prison. There's all these things that happened to try and put Mike in that same position. My experience as an actor was being nervous that we've lost the original thing because it couldn't lat forever. I'm worried how that's going to work as I watch it. It's going to hurt to watch me not be able to accomplish some of the fun and intensity from the first season."
The streaming numbers for the show should help abate those fears a bit, but we also can't wait for Adams to have to watch Mike in prison.
"Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast" is produced by SiriuxXM will release new episodes every Tuesday wherever podcasts are available.
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