MANILA, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 – Patrick Adams’ first visit to the Philippines left a good impression. It was on a family vacation in Cebu when he was 15 or 16 years old, but the Canadian actor’s admiration carries on.
In the last 24 hours, he’s been "eating his body weight in mango", as girlfriend Troian Bellisario (of the "Pretty Little Liars" fame) crawls out of his suitcase to the land of "smiling people, Jollibees and mangoes". JackTV flew Adams, half of the brainy duo of USA Network’s hit series "Suits", to Manila to meet and greet press and the fans at the Marriott Hotel in Pasay City.
Adams came looking dapper in a suit, but maintains he’s more of a "shirt and jeans" kind of guy. But being on a show that requires him to wear a suit for 16 hours every day, Adams says his mother is happy. "I never wanted to become a lawyer. My mom wanted me to be a lawyer. She wanted me to be wearing a suit everyday. I said, ‘I am never going to… Never gonna happen. Don’t even try.’ So now she’s laughing."
On "Suits", Adams plays Mike Ross, a young college-dropout with photographic memory recruited by Manhattan’s best legal closer, Harvey Specter (played by Gabriel Macht). Together they make a powerhouse legal team, adding to the interesting mix of characters at Pearson-Hardman.
If he ever got to playing lawyer in real life, the actor may have given in to the temptation. "I’ve given legal advice. Now that I play a lawyer on TV, I just dole it out like I know what I’m talking about," quips Adams. "I actually almost represented myself. I have a small scooter and I got myself into a little scooter accident with a city bus. Sounds much worse than it is, but I got really hocked up. ‘You know what, I play a lawyer on TV. I’m gonna learn it. I’m gonna go in there, stand my ground and prove it.’ I got about five minutes into research to what’s required and I was like, ‘I can’t do this. Let’s pay the fine and get out of here.’"
"Suits" could have been yet another courtroom television, but Adams says what sets it apart is the character build-up. "Even though it’s a legal show, we don’t rely on the law. It’s not about the cases," said Adams.
"A lot of times you’ll notice an episode will go by and you would have seen [about] five minutes of the actual case. It’s really about how it reverberates around all the characters you’ve fallen in love with and how it changes them. The cases are tailored to showcase how these characters deal with an issue. It’s more important that we advance the story of these characters and that takes a lot of confidence on the part of the writers to create characters that you could be interested in following. It seems to have worked so far."
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