Although the last few years have seen Patrick J. Adams appear in TV shows like The Right Stuff , A League of Their Own and Plan B , it’s safe to say he’s still best known for playing Mike Ross on Suits , which originally ran on USA Network from 2011 to 2019. This became even more cemented when Suits was all the rage on Netflix last year , to the point that it paved the way for NBC to greenlight the spinoff Suits L.
A. While looking back on his time playing Mike, Adams pointed out the Suits scene that he believes changed his life forever. Adams has teamed up with Suits co-star Sarah Rafferty for Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast , which sees the two watching the series for the first time, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and talking with special guests who also worked on Suits , both on camera and behind the scenes.
In a preview released by SiriusXM for the first episode, Rafferty read off a description of the scene where Mike meets Gabriel Macht’s Harvey Specter for the first time and shows off his eidetic memory. This leads to him being hired to be an associate at the Pearson Hardman law firm, despite having never gone to law school. Here’s what Adams had to say about this scene: It's weird to have a moment on camera where you could see your life change, you know? Because this is where my life changed.
The show changed my whole life. It's changed my career. It's changed the way that I work.
It's changed the people in my life. So many things wouldn't have happened were i.