The creator of Suits had some interesting things to say about the royal family’s involvement in the legal drama once Meghan Markle, 42, started dating Prince Harry, 38, in 2016. The show, which landed on Netflix in the summer and broke multiple viewership records for an acquired series, ran from 2011 until 2019, with Meghan leaving in 2017 after starring in seven seasons.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Suits creator and executive producer Aaron Korsh said he was really “excited” when he found out about Meghan’s new beau, but found some things a “little irritating” – such as when palace executives “weighed in” on scripts involving Meghan’s character, Rachel Zane.
'Suits' Creator Says The Palace 'Weighed In' On Parts Of The Script
"I was as excited in some ways as everybody else... I mean, your initial reaction is, like: 'We’re dating a prince!'" he told the Hollywood Reporter. "I will say, and I think Harry put this in the book [his memoir Spare] because I heard people talking about it – [the royal family] weighed in on some stuff. Not many things, by the way, but a few things that we wanted to do and couldn’t do, and it was a little irritating."
Korsh went on to reference one particular word that palace executives had banned, including why he wanted it in the show, and the reason the palace gave for wanting it removed.
"I remember one was a particular line of dialogue and, look, I’ll just say what the line was. My wife’s family, when they have a topic to discuss that might be sensitive, they use the word, 'poppycock.' So, in the episode, Mike and Rachel [Meghan's character] were going to have a thing, and as a nod to my in-laws, we were going to have her say: 'My family would say poppycock'. And the royal family did not want her saying the word."
The Palace Banned Certain Words And Phrases Due To 'Splicing Potential'
"They didn’t want to put the word 'poppycock' in her mouth. I presume because they didn’t want people cutting things together of her saying 'cock,'" he continued, adding, "So, we had to change it to [expletive] instead of 'poppycock' and I did not like it because I’d told my in-laws that [poppycock] was going to be in the show."
He went on to say that despite not being happy that the script had to change, he did understand the reasoning behind the change. "I’m pretty sure it got explained to me that it was about that [splicing potential] I had some sympathy because I wouldn’t want somebody doing that to her either," he confirmed, in reference to the potential editing that could be done by internet pranksters.
