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How ‘Suits LA’ Lured Gabriel Macht Back to Playing Harvey Specter

Original star Macht says he came back to pass the baton to the NBC spinoff: "I have found that I personally am in a better space in my life emotionally — and I think Harvey is too."

After wrapping up his nine-season run as the debonair, suave super lawyer on the USA drama Suits in 2019, Macht intentionally stepped away from acting in order to refocus his attention on spending more time with his family and raising his two young children. Suddenly, the glossy, eminently bingeable legal drama — which centered around hotshot corporate attorney Harvey’s decision to hire brilliant college dropout Mike Ross ( Patrick J. Adams) as his new associate, and the inevitable cover-up and fallout from their long con — got a new lease on life. Like his former co-stars and colleagues, Macht did not quite know what to make of the unprecedented resurgence of Suits, but he had a feeling that creator Aaron Korsh would eventually end up expanding the fictional universe with another set of impossibly witty and snazzy lawyers.

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