Original Suits star Gina Torres has responded to the show’s new spinoff series.
The show found a new lease of life last year after becoming a huge streaming hit on services such as Netflix and Peacock.
In the wake of this, a new Los Angeles-based spinoff was greenlit, and Torres – who played the role of Jessica Pearson on the original show – has given it her seal of approval.
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“It’s L.A., I think it’s fantastic,” she told Entertainment Weekly and PEOPLE. “I hope they have a successful and as long a run as we did.”
Opening up further about the original series, Torres admitted it was “incredible to be a part of that show”.
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“It’s even more amazing that it’s found another pair of legs and that people are running with it,” she added. “There are just great actors, great stories, great storylines, as everybody knows, so yeah, it’s just great.”
Suits: L.A. was greenlit for a pilot earlier this year, with creator Aaron Korsh returning to write the episode.
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The show will focus on new character Ted Black (played by Arrow’s Stephen Amell), whose firm is at “a crisis point” as he is forced to “embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career”.
"Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives,” the synopsis adds.
“All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved.”
Torres herself previously starred in her own short-lived Suits spinoff Pearson, which sees her titular character leave the New York City firm to enter Chicago politics.
Suits is available to stream on Netflix and BBC iPlayer in the UK.
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