USA Network drama Suits has been off the air since 2019, a year after star Meghan Markle left the series for a move to London, where her life became a much different sort of drama. The show’s record-breaking release on Netflix this summer ushered in a wave of Suits nostalgia that star Patrick J. Adams attempted to surf this week. The result, unfortunately for Adams, was a wipeout.
Within the Suitsiverse, Adams played Mike Ross, a man who pretended to be an attorney but who actually was not. Markle played Rachel Zane, a paralegal with arguably greater qualifications and skills than Ross, but who was largely relegated to the role of girlfriend (to Ross), her greater ambitions subsumed by the romantic plotline. Funny how that happens.
But with Suits again—or, perhaps, for the first time—part of the public conversation and Markle a constant figure in the global discourse, you can see why Adams thought this week might be a good one to remember the good times for all to see. The actor dropped multiple Instagram posts of photos from behind the Suits scenes, including “previously unseen” pictures of Markle, as People notes.
“This well is deeeep,” Adams wrote in a caption to one of the posts. “Let’s get serious. Seriously,” he captioned another post, all of which contained numerous images from the Suits set.
But if you want to see any of those photos, you’re out of luck. Adams has since deleted them from his account, and instead posted an apology after realizing the posts were in violation of the ongoing Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike.
As part of the strike, actors are not allowed to “promote struck work or struck companies on social media,” a restriction that Adams said—in a since-expired Instagram story—he was “gently and swiftly course corrected” about by his followers.
“The last couple of days I foolishly and thoughtlessly let a trip down Suits memory lane distract me from the very real and ongoing fight everyone in @sagaftra continues to wage in its effort to win our membership realistic 21st-century compensation and protections,” Adams wrote in the post.
“It was an embarrassing oversight for which I’m incredibly sorry,” he wrote. “I look forward to continuing the fight in the days and weeks ahead.”
This isn’t the first time Adams’s Instagram posts have gotten him in trouble. In 2018, he posted a photo of a woman asleep in an airport, and accused her of “body shaming” after she allegedly said a photo of him at Markle’s wedding to Prince Harry was unflattering. After his followers accused him of bullying the woman, he deleted the woman’s picture, explaining as he did that he “took it down, not because I felt the woman was right or fair or undeserving of being called out but because any sense of being a bully or lashing out felt wrong.”
“Now, if you see the original post on any media outlet, just know that they are choosing to take a relatively small indiscretion and make it worse,” Adams wrote at the time. “Believe pretty much nothing you read in magazines. Good or bad. The machinery runs on misfortune and oversimplification.”
Eve Batey
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