Suits – which starred and launched the acting career of the Duchess of Sussex – has smashed its viewership figures this summer. Despite ending in 2019, the show picked up 18 billion viewing minutes in July this year alone thanks largely to Netflix, TikTok and the “Meghan Markle factor”. Markle left the show in 2017 after her relationship with Prince Harry became public – but according to Aaron Korsh, the show’s creator, Buckingham Palace still had time to weigh in on Markle’s dialogue as paralegal Rachel Zane. For example, the royals reportedly had a problem with her saying “poppycock” because, Korsh presumes, “they didn’t want people cutting things together of her saying cock”. Instead, the less memeable “bullshit” was used. One former palace aide told the Telegraph the claim was, well, poppycock and suggested it was probably an “overzealous” agent who requested the change. But Harry also pointed to interventions by the royal comms team in Markle’s dialogue in his memoir Spare. Korsh is vague on how the Palace picked up scripts of Suits before they were filmed and who communicated tweak requests: “Whoever it was, they didn’t like having to tell me any more than I liked having to hear it.”
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