Yahoo News Suits creator explains fan-favourite character not returning for finale
Note: this article contains spoilers for the Suits series finale.
Suits wrapped up its nine-season run last night (September 25), though managed to avoid bringing back a key character that some had speculated would make an appearance.
And no, we're not talking about Meghan Markle's Rachel Zane.
Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) famously appeared in the first seven seasons of Suits – and now stars in her own spin-off show with Pearson – though creator Aaron Korsh has admitted that there were plans for a cameo in the finale.
"It was a very difficult process of deciding how to handle Jessica in the Suits thing," he told Entertainment Weekly. "Look, if Pearson didn't exist, I would've had Jessica come in and help them get rid of Faye.
"But because Pearson was on the air and these shows were airing back-to-back on the same night, I felt like if I was a viewer watching TV and one minute I'm seeing Jessica up to her eyeballs in intrigue and back dealings, and fighting for the life of the city on Pearson, and then in the very next show acting like none of that is happening and she's just in here waltzing in and saving the day and yucking it up at a wedding, it would lose the credibility that Pearson had.
"We worked very hard on that show and I was so proud of it, and that was the struggle. I just didn't want to mess with the integrity of Pearson to service Suits. I didn't think that was right."
He further explained that they tried to get in a scene with Torres herself that explained why she wasn't at the funeral, though the timing could not have been worse.
"What we ended up trying to do was write a scene where Harvey calls Jessica the morning of the big conference room scene and he's not sure that he wants to do it and he asks his mentor one more time, and at the same time she's getting ready for work in her apartment and getting ready to go and deal with the stuff going on in Chicago," he continued.
"Unfortunately, by the time we wrote that scene, all of the sets of Pearson were gone. We'd wrapped and put them away and we didn't own those stages anymore.
"We would've had to fly her to Toronto, but she was flying around the country working herself to the bone to promote Pearson. So it just logically didn't end up working, and it bummed me out."
Suits airs on USA in the US and on Netflix in the UK.
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