The creator of Suits, the popular American series which catapulted Meghan Markle to fame, has revealed the ‘irritating feedback’ the Royal Family would give his scripts.
Aaron Korsh revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that, while he couldn’t remember how the Royals received his scripts, he found their feedback ‘a little irritating.’
‘I will say, and I think Harry put this in the book, because I heard people talking about it—[the royal family] weighed in on some stuff,’ Korsh said. ‘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.’
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The Royal Family took issue with one word in particular, which Korsh wanted Markle’s character Rachel Zane to say to her love interest Mike Ross, played by Patrick J. Adams. Korsh wrote into the script ‘My family would say poppycock’, which is British slang for nonsense, but the Royal Family didn’t want Markle saying the word.
‘They didn't want to put the word ‘poppycock’ in her mouth,’ he continued. ‘I presume because they didn't want people cutting things together of her saying 'cock.' So, we had to change it to 'bulls--t' instead of 'poppycock,' and I did not like it.’
In Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, he wrote about Meghan and Suits after they started dating. ‘Meg packed up her house, gave up her role in Suits. After seven seasons. A difficult moment for her, because she loved that show, loved the character she was playing, loved her cast and crew—loved Canada,’ Harry wrote. ‘On the other hand life there had become untenable. Especially on set. The show writers were frustrated, because they were often advised by the Palace comms team to change lines of dialogue, what her character would do, how she would act.’
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