Rick hoffman explays his louis litt return in ‘suits la’ for now-final season

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For all nine seasons of the USA Network Legal Drama SuitsRick Hoffman Brought Equal Parts Heart, Humor and Hostity to the Role of Louis Litt-The Petulant, Heart-on-His-Sleeve Frenemy of Hotshot Lawyer Harvey. Althugh he was initially Positioned as a friendning foil to Harvey and his brilliant, unlicensed associate mike ross (Patrick J. Adams) Favorite – SO Much So that Series Creator Aaron Korsh Even Toyed with The Idea of ​​Building A Spinoff AUNOFLY Flawed Corporate Attorney.

While Their Plans for An Offshoot Never Panned Out, Hoffman and Korsh Always Harbored Dreams of Revisiting the Character One Day. Following The Unprecedated Resurgence of Suits -WHICH BECAME THE MOST WATCHED TITLE Ever Acquired by A Streaming Service-A Couple Years Ago on Netflix, Korsh Fast-Tracked The Development of the New West Coast Coast Spinoff, Suits laAnd Knew He Wanted to Bring Bring A Couple Original Characters to Help Breathe New Life Into the Franchise. (Those Attempts Were Ultimately UnsuccessFul; NBC Announced on Friday that Suits la WON’T BE RETURNING FOR SEASON TWO, CANCELING The SPINOFF AFTER ITS FRESHMAN RUN OF 13 EPISODES.)

“I was surprised that aaron called me early on in the first season because, as i’ve always said, with any shoin Penultimate Episode of the Season, After Macht Did A Three-Episode Arc, Tells The Hollywood Reporter. With Suits la“You’re dealing with another FIRM COMPLELY, BUT AT SOME POINT, I’M SURE AARON HAD IN THE BACK OF HIS HIS HEAD: ‘WHICH Characters Wuld Make Sense in this New World?’ WHEN I GOT the CALL, I WAS NATURALY EXCITED AND SURPRISED, AND Thrilled to Say Yes. ”

Korsh Created a One-Off Storryline That Fit Louis Like A Glove. Racher than Going Head-To-HAAD WITH THE NEW MAIN CAST ON A Federal Court Case, Louis Comes Face-To-Face with Just One Character, Stuart Lane (Josh McDERMITT) Really Just Code for and Anger Management Retreat – at Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club in Malibu. After Getting Into A Petty Dispute Over Who Had Possssion Over a Hotel Luggage Cart, Louis and Stuart Quickly Discover Dringing Their First Group Session at the Retreat Tho.

For Starters, Louis and Stuart Both Felt Belittled by the Men Who They Considerred Their Best Friend and Main Partner at Their Respective Law Firms. While Stuart Was Still Licking His Wounds After Recently Falling Out with Protagonist Ted Black (Stephen Amell), Louis Had a History Harvey.

Louis and Stuart Certainly Weren’t shy About Airing their Grievans about their Best Friend to Perfect Strangers Either. According to Stuart, Ted Had Punched Him in the Face, Made Stuart’s Future Wife Cry, Shaved Half of Stuart’s Beard’s Beard While He Was Sleeping, And Called Him A Frant of The Front of The Colliers. Not to be Outdone, Louis Revealed That Harvey Once Slept With Louis’ Attractive Sister and Threw Him Into A Glass Table Dringing A Fight (in Season Five of Suits), peed in his ficus Tree 16 Times (Offscreen, Obviously), and Made Fun of His “Mankini” (Season Nine).

Buter of the head of the Program Points Out the Trivial Nature of Their Complaints, Louis and Stuart Each Reveal The Real Reason Whoa Are at the Retreat. Louis Admits That Has Everything He Has Ever Wanted-He’s Running His Own FIRM, AND HAS A WIFE AND TWO Children (Aged 5 and 2) at Home-But Hee Is Strugling To. To add insult to injury, another lawyer had made made of louis’ family – Well, his cat alice, but she May as Well Be One of His Children at the Point – and Louis Had. Stuart, for his party, was felling particularly shaken after a cold-blooded killer threatened his family during a recent trial.

Shortly After Realizing their Best Friends Shareds An Existing Connection from Their Days As ProseCutors, Louis and Stuart Take A Special Liking To Each Other. Stuart Offers Louis Sage Advice About not Being Too Hard on HimSelf As Both A Managing Partner and A Devoted Husband and Father. In Return, Louis Confides in Stuart About How How Has Once Mugged (in the Eighth Season of Suits), and suggests that Stuart Lean on Ted in the Same Way that Louis Leuis Leuned on Harvey in the aftermath of a traumatic Attack. While Going Mudding – One of Louis’ Favorite Activities – Late One Evening, Louis Abriptly Asks Stuart to Be His Second “Federal Out of a mexican Prison. (Harvey is Louis ‘Other “Federale” Friend.) Stuart not only Accepts Louis’ Offer But Also Finally Mends Fences with Ted Over The Phone.

For the Entirety of Itine-Year Run, Suits WAS FILMED IN TOPRONTO, WHICH DOBLED as A More Affordable Stand-in New York. While the RESTH HIS CastMates Wuld be Back to the US at the Start of every Hiatus, Hoffman Decided to Stay and Eventual BeCame A Permanent Resident in Canada, WHERE HEEHER. He is happy to share it recently became a dual Citizen – WHICH HAS BECOME A Particularly Coveted Honor Among His Family and Friends, Given Escalating Politicalas Betwes. “Everybody Says, ‘Wow, You Knew,’ ‘HE SAYS WITH A LAUGH. “I’M LIKE, ‘WELL, I WOURT SAY THAT MY 10-YEAR-ELD CANADIAN SON DAKS A LITTLE Credit for My Stay.’ Especialy Living Up Here in A Small Town, Ita Really Takes Down Half of the Stresses and Half of All The Blood Pressure. ”

Calling from His Home “In The Sticks” Near Lake Huron, Hoffman Opens Up To Thr About the Experience of Revisiting the “Craziest” Character He Has Ever Played, His All-Time Favorite InAppropriate “Louis-Ism”-and How He Feels About of the Prospect of Suits Movie with the Original Cast.[[Note: This Interview Took Place Before The Canceration News.]

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Suits Was A Global Hit Dringing Its Initial Run, But The Show Came Back Into The Cultural Zeitgeist in a Way No One Could Have Anticipated Dringing The Hollywood Strikes in 2023. How did Creator Aaron Korsh Pitch This One-Off Guest Appearance To You? HAD YOU GUYS Discussed the Possibility of Revisiting this Character in the Present Day Prior to the Development of Suits la?

Even While We Were Finishing Up On Suits Back in 2019, There Was Always Talk from Aaron and Myself About [working together again]. We HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS THRUGHOUT The PANDEMIC, AND IT WASN’T NECESARY JUST Suits or louis the Character, But Just Things in General. It’s Hard to Say Goodbye to A Character Like That. It Was A LIFE-CANGING EXPERIENCE FOR ME As An Actor Doing That Character, and and Suitsof Course, Was Aaron’s Baby. SO, Naturally, One Wuld Want to Say, “Oh, What If?” But Nothing Was Ever Going To Come To Frucy. And the fact the Strike Happy, and I was the Last to Know of the Whole Resurgence. I Not that i’m antisocial, but i’m not outwardly look to see, like, “oh, i wonder if people are watching Suits FIVE YEARS AFTER IT FINISHED. ” And THEN OUT OF NOWHERE, I WAS GETTING PHONE CALLS FROM HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS I HADNN’T Heard From in Years.

And then i see in the trades, out of nowHere, [an announcement about] Suits la. Everything Came Together in One Fell Swoop. IT WAS LIKE This Alternate Universe, and I Was Thrilled. I was just like, “You gotta be kidding me!” I DIDN’T KNOW, Ultimately, What That Wound Present in The Future, But I Was Surprised That Aaron Called Me Early On In the Fircrast Season Beet Chemistry – Their Own Lightning in A Bottle, if One Is So Lucky. Obviously, You’re Deling with Another Firm Completely, But at Some Point, I’M Sure Aaron Had in The Back of His Head: “Which Characters Wuld Make Sense Inn World?” WHEN I GOT the CALL, I WAS NATURALY EXCITED AND SURPRISED, AND THRILLED TO SAY YES. We have always discussed working together to some exhoree. We Just Didn’t Know Ultimately How, So This Was A Great Excuse.

What did you make of the experience of revisiting louis in the present day and having him connect with Stuart in this ut exoxpectioned capacity?

WELL, THAT’S WHY I WAS EXCITED BECAUSE IT FIT LIKE A Glove: Louis, Anger Management. I like Chocolate and Peanut Butter – It Just Makes Perfect Sense; IT DOES NOT Feel Inorganic. SO MANY FUN IDEAS CAN Come from that World of Anger Management with That Character. WHEN LUIS VOLUNTEERS AT THAT MOMENT WHERE SHARING WHAT’S GOING ON [in their lives] at Anger Management, He Pretty Much Tells You That He’s Got The Best Wife, He’s Got Two Children, He’s Running His Own Firm. I Didn’t Expect The Two Children – That Was Cool, But Not Meaning That Was New News [to me]. I HAD ALWAYS KNOWN, BASED ON MY Discussions With Aaron of How We’d Seen Him, That He’s Still In Love With Sheila [played by Rachael Harris] and Running the FIRM.

How they are able to fit this New Relationship that have have fordmed in one episode, i thought, was just reality Well Done. I Liked How Were Able to Do It In Such A Small Amount of Time; They ABLE TO DEAL WITH Some ACTual, Real, Existential Moments, As Well As Ridicless Buffoonery. I Found to be A Really Well-Balanced Episode, and I Could not Have Been Happier Especlamally Working with Josh, Who Was Incredibly Warm and Welcoming. He’s One of Those Actors That Was Self-Aware and Kind. IT WAS A WONDERFUL TWO DAYS OF WORK WITH JOSH.

Louis is the Kind of Polarizing Character Who People Either Really Loved or Loved to Hate. You’ve offen desCribed him as the “waling heart” of SuitsBecause he underwent the most dramatic arc over Those nine seasons. How did you work with the writers to craft him into the Kind of Bruced, Beating Heart of the Show? What Stands Out to You From His Journey?

It’s Such A Good Question, and I DON’T KNOW to Answer It Succinctly, But So Many Things Stand Out to Me that I’M Proud of. Ultimately, He Was Like This Piece of Clay that Molded for Nine Years: “Let’s Have It Shaped This Way. And Now Let’s Cureate It Back.” For an actor to play a role like that, it’s a dream because you get to do everything, Really. You Wish that everybody’s can evolve like that in real life. This was a guy who was almost like an Iago Character from Otello and Ultimately Became… Barney. (Laughs) So that’s the Range of the Character!

WHATEVER The END Result Was Was Really A Discovery Between Myself and the Writers Together of What You Can Build Off of Him. Soy put someting out there, i do my best job, they’re happy, and then they want to try this and i’ll do do that. It Just Seemed Like Each Thing We Tried, WHATEVER WAS GIVEN – AND this is with everybody’s on that show – everyBody Really Smaked It Out of the Park. That’s what i THINK MADE THE SHOW [so successful] Between the Six Main Actors and then all the guest actors. We Were So Lucky to have the best actors work on that show. What Happy With My Character Was He Became this Rainbow of Emotions All Over the pendulum – that was the writing chants; IT WAS ME Taking CHANCES. But The Other Actors Were Given Similar Tasks, and They Hit It Out of the Park. It’s Hard to Find A Show Like That, And We Got So Lucky.

Do you have a Particular Theory Who People Have Such A Polarizing Reaction to Louis? WHY DO YOU THINK HAS STOD The TEST OF TIME?

You’re Never in the Middle With Louis. He’s Just Not That Kind of Personality. I Think Louis Represents the Insecurities in All of Us. Even the Worst Parts of Louis Are In Everyone – I’M Not Saying That People Act on It, But Those Insecurities Are In Every Human Being, So that Could Really Trigger a [strong] Reaction. WHEN IT COME SHOULD REFLECTING AND UNDERSTANDING [human behaviour] or Something’s Familiar [to an audience]Either You Love Him or You Hate Him, But You Are Never Like, “Meh. ”

Louis has a lot of quirks, somes of kind of were intenationally broght up in his in interactions with Stuart. There’s, of Course, His Love for Mudding and “Prunes” (Or Prune Smoothies) and His Catchphrase “You Just Got Litt Up!” – But There’s Also His Propensity to Sut Wildly InApproprate Sexual Innuendos Without Realizing It Hen Hen Gets Overly Emotion.

It’s Because He Sees Red, and WHEN SOMEBODY SEES RED, THEN Nobody Cares What’s Coming Out of Their Own Mouth. It Just Sems Like With Louis’ Bad Luck – and this goes back to season Three, WHERE HE SAYS HE EATS Cock for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. (Laughs) That’s Ultimately WHERE THAT STARTED. That was perfect for anger management [in this episode] Because nobody Knows Whaty’re Saying WHEN GONE GONE FROM ZERO TO 60; Nobody Really Has Any Control. It Just SO HAPPENS LoUIS HAS HAS KNACK FOR ALL THESE SEXUAL INNUEENDOS THAT HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT. (Laughs) I Love It So Much.

Do you have a favorite, wildly Approprate Sexual Innuendo that Louis said on the Original Suits?

There was one in particular. We Were Way, Way Deep Into The Seasons. And every time I think of your much and it’s not going to work, and i Try to Gund IT, It Ends Up Working – Like The One Where i Tell Harvey that I’M Going to Ride Him. (Laughs) You Can Talk About Wood with [Sarah Rafferty’s] Donna, and I Was Like, “That’s A Little Too Much.” But then we go to bareback, and i’m like, “holy shit!” It is so Much Fun to Shoot Because You’re constantly worrying about breaking. WHENEVER I READ Any of THEM – LIKE Angry Sylvester [which is what Louis calls his own penis in this episode] – I’M LIKE, “This is Never Going to Work.” And then I Think The More Anxiety I Get, The More Adrenaline I have to try to give it as much as postible so it. (Laughs)

I’ve Spoken with Both Gabriel an Patrick in recent months, and i Wanted to Pose this Question to You As Well. Your Characters on Suits HAVE BECOME CULTURAL ICONS, JOINING OF POWERFUL MALE ATIHEROES LIKE Tony Soprano, Walter White and Don Draper. Jon Hamm Told Thr Last Year that Those Kinds of Male Characters Are of Fethen Celebrated for the Wrong Reasons; A CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC SEMS TO THINK OF THEM AS “A PARAGON OF MASCULINITY.” How did you Approach the Department of Masculinity with Louis On Suits?

There was noting that i Conscioses of Was aware of. I just loked at him as the Little guy, and i looped at him as an incredibly insecure beta male who was wanted to be alpha. As Far as me Approaching It, It Was Just Making Sure and Was Always in Tune to Where Hen Saying The Things Hans Saying. SO, of COURSE, I would USE WHATEVER CAME FROM ME. But I Never Looked at It In Terms of, “Is He Masculine Enough or Notough?” Because and Always Felt Louis Was Comfortable in His Own Skin, Surpringly.

Aaron Clearly Wanted to Create A Link Between Louis and Stuart Like The One Had Tried to Establish Between Harvey and Ted Early on in the Season. How would you feel about getting the Original Band Together for Some Kind of Tv Movie in the Vein of Other USA Network Hits Like Monk or Psych?

I MEAN, IF YOU’RE ASKING ME, THAT’S LIKE ASKING My MOTHER. She would say[[Imitates Long Island Jewish Mother Accent]“OH My God! I Want to See Him Do His Own Spinoff!” I would be more than happy to do more of this character. At this point, you would Think That Ship Has Sailed. I’m not in thoss positions up there in the Studios and Networks. But For Me, It’s All About Fun. If you have a fun character, who wouldn’n you want to see more of them? I Get Him Not Fitting Into The World of Suits labut you’re preaching to the choir here. DO I WANT IT? Would i do more? Absolutely. How Could i Say No to A ROLE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE?

There have been Talk, I Should Say, of a Suits Movie. There’s Been Talk of That Stuff from Aaron. I don’t know if that’s Something that’s Still on the Table. I Just Stuff I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT [right now]but there is someting Very Much at Play With Louis and His Firm, I Think, In Aaron’s Head. That is someting that i have been told, but it have been a while, so some knows? I just hope that Suits la HAS LIFE AND [NBC will] Let Them Continue, and Maybe You Can Ultimately Throw in Somemo More Suits Characters. But i Just of the Belief That You Never Believ The Best Thing You and You Never Believ The Worst Thing SAID About You, Because if I Believe Those, they’d Be Like, “Oh My G, LIKE. You listen to the fans, and that’s all they play. But Is Now Been Six Years Since[TheOriginal[theoriginalSuits]Finised, so i would be teasing myseld if i said he’s coming back.

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Suits la Airs Sundays at 9/8C on NBC, and Episodes Stream The Next Day on Peacock. All episodes of suits are now now streaming on nbc and peacock. Read Thr’s Summary of What to Remember From Suits While Watching Suits la.