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To say Sarah Rafferty has had a surreal year is an understatement.
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And while Rafferty is among them, she’s also insanely grateful for the blessings this year.
In October it landed in the No.
1 finishes on the overall chart eversince Nielsen began reporting the Top 10s in 2020.
Gabriel Macht and Sarah Rafferty inSuitsseason nine
I don’t think any of us could believe it.
We were like, Wait.
I’m so incredibly grateful.
Gina Torres, Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Rafferty, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, and Gabriel Macht
Think of it asThe Summer I Turned PrettymeetsThe FostersmeetsParty of Five.
Or, according to Rafferty’s 11-year-old daughter, it’s about to be the newest hit series.
What does that even mean?
Sarah Rafferty as Katherine and Marc Blucas as George in episode 105 ofMy Life With the Walter Boys
We were like, Wait.
It just completely took off, and everyone I knew was rewatchingor watchingSuits.
I had coffee with my next-door neighbor at our local Starbucks recently, and I made nine friends.
Do you know everybody here?
I was like, I do now.
But this is the best one: I was at a friend’s 50th-birthday party.
He says, I have to introduce you to your biggestSuitsfan.
I think my mom has all this cred at assisted living now.
He was like, Oh, I love that show.
I can’t stop watching it.
I started to sweat.
I was like, I really do not know how to have this conversation.
That was the thrill of a lifetime.
How dare you not call me first!
Anyway, back to Larry, I was like, Wait, you’re watching it?
He was like, Well, I do love a courtroom drama.
I love a courtroom.
I love a courtroom.
Theres got to be moreSuits.
A reunion, a continuation, something.
I can’t imagine.
I don’t know how that stuff works.
I supposelook, they’re all alive and well somewhere in Seattle or wherever.
Yeah, they do those movies, right?
Yeah, I feel like a great idea would bring everybody back together.
And Larry David can make a cameo.
Or at least moderate your ATX Festival panel.
Larry David could literally walk through every scene and be like, What are you guys doing?
What are you worried about?
It’d just be so funny.
Maybe I shouldn’t be speaking in public.
No, I think its great.
The show is great, and its fun to have people discover it again.
I have to say I’m so happy.
I’m so incredibly grateful.
We’ve had trouble connecting lately, and it brings us together every week.
When we started,Suitswas kind of before social media was in our face.
I swore I was going to live off of that [sentiment].
And the feedback like that this summer has meant a lot to me.
We’re in Calgary, so it’s like the Canadian Rockies.
It’s so pretty.
You know I love Canada…[but] this was different.
It’s astonishingly beautiful.
It looks fake, right?
Whats that been like?
There’s not a lot of boys in my family life.
I have three sisters.
My mom is one of three sisters, so I’m one of four sisters.
My parents have nine grandchildren.
Only two of them are boys.
To play fake family with tons of boys was so fun.
The young actors who play the Walter boys made my job so easy.
You spend one minute with these young gentlemen and totally fall in love with them.
Your character, Katherine, is a veterinarian and her style is very laid-back, as it should be.
Whats that like after dressing to the nines onSuits?
Donna was like fantasy wardrobe.
That may never happen [to me] again.
That was the once-in-a-lifetime fairy-tale couture craziness.
And I was pregnant the first season onSuits, and six weeks postpartum starting the second season.
So I basically went fromSuitsto wearing pajamas, which was super fun.
And then creating Katherine was really fun because she’s so different from Donna.
It’s not exactly a hop, skip and jump away.
It’s always a tough decision to go.
I would say I have a super-super-fun job.
I get to be a working actor and sustain my family doing the thing I love.
So that’s amazing.
The benefit was I play the mom on a teen show.
You don’t need the mom for all the stuff.
So I knew I would be able to get home because I have a teen [daughter].
So that was actually a plus.
There was something very magical about…I mean, you knowhow close theSuitsactors are.
We’re so close.
There was something really magic about [this cast].
All the lovely actors who played the kids were so open and and energized and connected.
They’re at the beginning of their careers.
Their enthusiasm was contagious and connected me back to the beginning of my career.
In a way, that was really healing, because this is my first job postpandemic.
Yes, and let’s talk about those boys and Nikki [Rodriguez, who plays Jackie].
I’ve been texting with all of them.
I’m like, The world is about to meet you.
Things are going to change.
They’re about to be launched out of the gate.
The tweens are falling in love with all of those kids, every single one of them.
How hard was it to get all their names straight?
I mean, there are truly so many kids on this show.
What’s his name?
I think I’ve been calling him by his character name, not his real name.
But I do know their names now.
I’m just so excited for these actors.
I think the world is going to fall in love with them.
This interviewed has been edited for length and clarity.
