The British Crown exercised censorship over the dialogue and script suits.
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Aaron Korsh, the creator of the series, revealed this to the Hollywood Reporter. He said he was “a little irritated” when Buckingham Palace disrupted dialogue about the character played by Meghan Markle.
The former actress, who became the Duchess of Sussex after marrying Prince Harry in 2018, first made her name on the series Suits, where she played lawyer Rachel Zane through season seven. Meghan Markle carried on until her wedding, but the British royal family was keen to get involved in any storyline changes before the actress finally left.
“(The royal family) has commented on a few things. “Not much, but we wanted to do a few things that we couldn’t do and that was a little irritating,” Aaron Korsh admitted.
One word was banned from lawyers’ lingo: ‘poppycock’, which means nonsense but is also formed from a slang word in English to denote the male gender. Aaron Korsh had hoped to use it as a nod to his in-laws preferring the term when discussing sensitive topics.
“The royal family didn’t want her to say that word,” he recalls. She didn’t want to put the word “Poppycock” in his mouth. I guess because they didn’t want people interrupting things to make him say “c**k.” So we had to change it to “bulls**t” and I didn’t like that because I told my in-laws that “poppycock” was going to be on the show. There may have been one or two more things, but I don’t remember them. »
The TV producer added that it was not Meghan Markle (42) herself who made the request. He also explained that he was sympathetic to the sentiment: “I felt some sympathy because I didn’t want anyone to do that to him either (pun). And the thing is, I didn’t think anyone would actually do it, but I’m not sure either. People are crazy! ” he concluded.