Parks and Recollection - Patrick J. Adams & Sarah Rafferty: We've Never Seen Suits

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

Patrick J. Adams (Mike Ross) and Sarah Rafferty (Donna Paulsen) starred on the hit TV series Suits. But they have never really watched the show... until now! Join Patrick and Sarah on their new podcast as they watch episodes, tell behind-the-scenes stories, and talk with creators and co-stars. Sidebar is out now!  Listen to Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast every Tuesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SiriusXM, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  And don’t forget to follow @suitssidebar on Instagram. 

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I can't even speak, which doesn't really work in this medium. First of all, let's actually introduce ourselves. Hi, I'm Patrick J. Adams. I played Mike Ross on the show Suits. And I'm Sarah Radcliffe. I'm the director of the show. I'm the director of the show. I'm the director of the show.

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The name of this podcast is Sidebar. What a great name. Love it. Why are we calling it Sidebar? We are doing Sidebar specifically inviting our listeners into Sidebar with us, but in the courtroom, it's something that's like out of earshot. We're like in earshot.

That's what it means in a courtroom is I want to do this not for other people to hear. Where the jury can't hear you. And yet we're doing it for the entire world to hear. Well, we would like everybody to join us. Like, we're like, hey, let's talk over here altogether. We're having a sidebar with the world. Yeah, let's let's like it's like a group hug.

It's like a huddle. I mean, that's what a podcast is, isn't it? To be more quiet, like away from the the maddening crowd. So welcome to Sidebar. This is our Suits Watch Podcast, a watch podcast, because we've never watched this show and we want to. I'm scared to but I'm also excited to with you. Yes I think since we're doing it together and since we're doing it with our listeners we're safe

space. This is a safe space. Do we need a safety worship? Until we read any internet comments whatsoever and then it becomes not a safe space. Keep it to yourself internet. You know what that's what we have our friends for. We have Kimmy, Cassie, and Kristen. Who will read those things and then tell us only the good ones. And gently steer us. Actors protected from the world's opinion. I love it.

Anyway, I'm so excited to be here with you, Patrick. Me too. To sidebar our way through 134 episodes. It's daunting. Of suits. Looking up that mountain right now. Yeah. Right?

Well, it forces us to be present to each one. Yeah. It's a good exercise. Yeah, take our time, one step at a time. Yep. One day at a time, one episode at a time. Why did you decide to do a podcast? What made you come up with this idea?

If you wanna know the truth, well, this was a thing. This is a thing, these rewatch podcasts. This isn't the first one? We're not breaking new ground here, it turns out. We are not pioneers. Because I have avoided for so long watching Suits. I'm one of those actors. I think we share this, which is as a way,

if I've just directly worked on something or shot it, I can't watch it right away. I just couldn't watch it right away. I just couldn't do it. It puts me in a spiral. And so I've avoided this thing that was ultimately the largest job I've ever had in my entire life.

And it's changed the direction of my life and my career in every way. And I've just avoided it. And I did notice I had caught clips of it online. That was a big thing that was starting to happen on the old TikTok, which was, I think, responsible for this renaissance that we'll talk about in a second.

But I noticed that when it came on, I was suddenly able to watch it and be like, oh my God, that was a really remarkable thing that happened. So you could look at the younger you with kinder eyes? Yeah, you know that thing, like when someone takes a picture of you and you look at it right away, and you're just like, I can never, I can't believe that's what I look like. And then you could look at that same photo in like two or three weeks, even maybe longer. Maybe for me it's years. But you can look at it

and go, why am I being so unkind to myself? I look great. I think that's the same thing that started happening with suits. And so I got excited about the idea. I'm still nervous to do this, but ultimately it felt like an amazing opportunity to kind of get to the bottom of what this whole experience was for me and you know what's clearly like captured the attention of the entire planet. What about you? I think one of the reasons why I'm excited to do this is that this was also just like a wild privilege, just an amazing thing that happened to all of us. And I didn't have time while we were doing it to be present. I didn't have the skills. I'm not saying I have the skills now, but I didn't have time to be really present due to kind of the madness of it all, I feel like, well, now if I want to feel the depth of gratitude,

the place to do it is in connection with you and, you know, hopefully with Aaron and the directors that come on and our castmates and the fans and the people who watched it and made it so that we could do what we love. And to be able to actually connect with them in a real meaningful way, I feel like this might be a great route.

I think that's a great way to put it, the gratitude. I love that. And I'm so happy to be here with you. And I'm so happy to be here with you. So are you ready? Should we do this? You wanna talk about suits? Should we do this?

Let's talk suits. Okay. Okay. Tell me stuff. Let's do this. Let's talk suits. Okay. ["Suits on the Roof"] Tell me stuff.

Can I tell you things? Yes. The suits aired on, the pilot aired on June 23rd, 2011. That was my wedding anniversary. Thank you so much. Is it really? Yes.

Wow, look at this. Fun facts already right from the beginning. Aired on USA Network. Let's see who are some of the heavy hitters of the cast. We've got Gabriel Mokz as Harvey Specter. We have you. We have Patrick J. Adams as Mike Ross. We have Rick Hoffman as Louis Litt.

We have Sarah Rafferty as Donna Paulson. We have Gina Torres as Jessica Pearson. And of course, Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane, among many other cast members. We have the best guest cast and recurring cast in the world. We can't wait to bring them on to this show and talk to all of them. Let's talk about what we're actually going to be doing week to week here. Well, we're going to watch the episode every week, right? Wait, what? Hard now. Yes, we are going to watch the episode every single week and we are going to come in here ready to talk about it arm to the teeth with not only our opinions and our ideas and our questions and our memories, but also our friend Kristen here and our amazing

producers here at Sirius are going to help us with facts from the week. We're going to have guests. We're going to talk to all of our collaborators. We're going to have as many collaborators. In front of the camera and from behind. Yeah, we're going to have everybody on the show as much as possible. And we really can't wait to speak to our viewers. And maybe answer some of their questions.

Yes. We really hope you come with us on this journey, and we're excited to see where it takes us. Sidebar is out now. When is it out? Now. Now? One more time. Should we do it one more time?

Now. Now? One more time. Should we do it one more time? Now.