EXCLUSIVE: This is the news Suits fans have been waiting for — the star of the hit legal drama will appear on the upcoming NBC spinoff, Suits LA. Gabriel Macht, who played the brash and suave super lawyer Harvey Specter on the original series, will reprise his role on the offshoot in a three-episode arc, sources tell Deadline. A rep for NBC declined to comment.
Since Suits LA was announced a year ago, on the heels of the original series’ streaming resurgence on Netflix, there has been talk about OG cast members appearing in the follow-up. NBC executives have hinted at that possibility, with most Suits alums publicly saying that they would do it if Aaron Korsh, creator of both the original and the spinoff, called them.
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Macht, who had not indicated whether he would come back, has always been at the top of wish lists to help launch the new series, and his character fits well with the premise of Suits LA.
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Harvey Specter and the lead character in Suits LA, Ted Black (Stephen Amell), share the same background, they both were former prosecutors in New York. In a short Instagram teaser video (you can watch it below), he referred to Harvey helping “an old friend in need.”
Macht’s stint is a guest arc and is not a precursor to him potentially joining Suits LA full-time. Landing him for the spinoff is a big get as it marks Macht’s first return to the screen since Suits. After his nine-season run on the USA series ended in 2019, he took a break from acting as he moved with his family to the UK.
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Alongside the rest of the Suits cast, Macht was thrust back into the spotlight on the heels of the series’ massive success on Netflix. He resurfaced earlier this year for the Suits cast reunion at the Golden Globes and did a T-Mobile commercial alongside Patrick J. Adams, in which they channeled their Suits characters. He also has done endorsements.
When we last saw Harvey Specter in the Suits series finale, he left his career as a corporate lawyer and, along with his wife/executive Donna, moved to Seattle to join Mike Ross’ (Adams) legal clinic.
Suits: L.A centers on Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself by representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other and they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All this happens while the show slowly unravels the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved to start all over.
Starring alongside Amell are Lex Scott Davis, Josh McDermitt and Bryan Greenberg.
Korsh is writer and executive producer. David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein, Anton Cropper, Genevieve Sparling, Rick Muirragui and Jon Cowan also executive produce. Suits LA, produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, premieres Feb. 23.
Macht is repped by CAA.
UPDATE: Macht teased his return on Instagram by putting on Harvey’s suit and shoes. “When an old friend is in need…it’s time to take care of things and make those very ‘things’ right,” he captioned the short video to Suits’ theme song: