Abigail Spencer could see a future at Suits: L.A.
Spencer, who played Scottie in the original series, told The A.V. Club that she's thrilled so many people are watching the show again on Netflix
If you shipped Scottie and Harvey when you watched Suits when it originally aired from 2011 to 2019 (or you’re one of the millions of people who contributed to its whopping 57.7 billion minutes viewed on Netflix in 2023), we have some bad news for you. The two lawyers are never, ever getting back together. “Aaron (Korsh, Suits’ creator) did originally mean for Scottie and Harvey to end up together,” Abigail Spencer, who played Scottie, said in a recent interview with The A.V. Club. Of course, that was before Donna (Sarah Rafferty) came along and eventually stole Harvey’s heart. Spencer isn’t too upset about the whole thing, though. “It makes more sense,” she said. “Donna and Harvey really should—and do!—end up together.”
But while ‘shippers likely won’t ever see the Scottie and Harvey ending they craved, they might not have seen the last of Scottie altogether. “Yes!” Spencer answered when asked whether she’d consider reprising her role on upcoming spin-off, Suits: L.A. “Scottie was such a fun character to play and really kind of the first character to take Harvey to task. Every season when I was available they just kept asking me back.”
While Spencer hasn’t yet received any sort of official invite for the new, Stephen Amell-led series, she thinks that “anyone in the Suits universe could probably come back through.” But, she clarified, the show is still in the pilot phase and has to spend the first few episodes introducing a whole new slate of characters if they do get picked up anyway, so it will likely be a while regardless.
For now, Spencer is reveling in Suits’ unexpected second wave. (The show recently beat The Office’s record for most minutes streamed in a single year.) “To have this resurgence three years after we finished shooting is wild. I feel like there should be some sort of, all the puns intended, “case study” about the show,” she said. “I just think it’s so exciting. You think as an artist you can make something and it will live on, and amplify, and people can keep discovering it. I do think that’s the magic of streaming, that storytelling can live on in a way that it didn’t previously.”
Spencer is currently starring alongside Donald Faison and Jon Cryer in NBC’s Extended Family, which airs new episodes on Tuesday nights at 8:30 ET.