Suits - Season 2 - Sarah Rafferty interview

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So is it weird to travel from one city where you shoot the show to the city where the show takes place?
SARAH RAFFERTY: It’s funny because I’ll get [texts with] pictures from friends of “look at the bus” or shots of Times Square. There’s posters [for Suits] on Doheny and Sunset [in Los Angeles] or whatever. And there we are in Toronto kind of just doing our thing, sort of out of it all. But it’s exciting. We were in New York about three and a half weeks ago for upfronts, and I was walking into Saks Fifth Avenue to buy shoes for the event, and there were five pedicabs lined up with Suits posters on them. I thought, “Oh my God, right, wow. This is happening.” There’s a good bit of energy around it.

What appealed to you about your character when you first signed on to the show?
I love Donna. I really respect her wit and her loyalty. She doesn’t suffer fools. I think what’s so fascinating about her as a functional character is that she shows a side of Harvey that you wouldn’t see otherwise because of their backstory and they go back so far. He can be a different person with her than with anybody else in his life.

You and Gabriel also go back pretty far — you’ve known each other for about 20 years. How do you bring that relationship to your performances?
I think we don’t really think about it. It just kind of happens ’cause we have so much fun with each other. In some ways it can be totally problematic because we giggle a lot. Especially when we have to be serious, it’s really hard. We had to shoot a scene two nights ago at, like, 2:30 in the morning. We were really tired, and we had to shoot a really serious scene, and we were kind of cracking up when we had to be serious with each other, so it was like the kindergarten teacher in us separated us. We were like, “We can’t hang out right now. We need to go to separate corners and just sit and not talk to each other, ’cause otherwise we’re gonna be here all night.” But I think our relationship just brings the ease to it.

Source: Full Interview @ EW