The creator of Suits has revealed the Royal Family had a Meghan Markle line removed from the show.
The former actress started dating Prince Harry back in 2016, while she still starred in the popular US legal drama.
The Duchess of Sussex played Rachel Zane, the love interest of protagonist Mike Ross [played by Patrick J. Adams].
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the show’s creator Aaron Korsh revealed Buckingham Palace gave surprising feedback on the scripts.
He said: “I will say, and I think Harry put this in the book, because I heard people talking about it—[the royal family] weighed in on some stuff. Not many things, by the way, but a few things that we wanted to do and couldn’t do, and it was a little irritating.”
“My wife’s family, when they have a topic to discuss that might be sensitive, they use the word ‘poppycock. So, in the episode, Mike and Rachel were going to have a thing, and as a nod to my in-laws, we were going to have her say, ‘My family would say poppycock.’ And the royal family did not want her saying the word.”
Aaron explained: “They didn’t want to put the word ‘poppycock’ in her mouth. I presume because they didn’t want people cutting things together of her saying ‘cock.'”
“So, we had to change it to ‘bulls**t’ instead of ‘poppycock,’ and I did not like it because I’d told my in-laws that it was going to be in the show. There was maybe one or two more things, but I can’t remember.”
“I don’t know how they got [the scripts]. I was aware that they were reading them because I got the feedback, but I don’t remember the process by which they got them.”
