The One Word Meghan Markle Wasn’t Allowed To Say On ‘Suits’

While it may seem like approximately four million years since Meghan Markle was just a humble actor – you know, before she became a princess, was the face of the #megxit campaign she didn’t create and accidentally blew up the royal family – ‘news’ about her stint on her show Suits has just bubbled up.

You see there was a teeny tiny crossover when Meghan was publicly dating Prince Harry and still playing Rachel Zane on the hit legal show, and it turns out that the royal family were weighing in on the scripting during this time and making demands.  

Suits creator Aaron Korsh spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the monarch meddling, sharing that there was a “particular line of dialogue” that the royal fam requested to be yeeted from the script. And it was one that he wasn’t chuffed about because he wrote it in as a sweet nod to his own in-laws.

“My wife’s family, when they have a topic to discuss that might be sensitive, they use the word, ‘poppycock’,” he explained.

“So, in the episode, Mike [Patrick J. Adams] and Rachel [Meghan Markle] were going to have a thing, and as a nod to my in-laws, we were going to have her say, ‘My family would say poppycock’. And the royal family did not want her saying the word.”

“They didn’t want to put the word ‘poppycock’ in her mouth.”

Yes, this article just won the inaugural award for ‘most poppycocks in one post’. 

Meghan Markle in ‘Suits’. Image credit: Suits, USA Network.

Aaron assumed the Windsors wanted the line changed “because they didn’t want people cutting things together of Meghan saying ‘cock’”. Which would 100% happen – if the internet can remix Dan Andrew rapping about ‘getting on the beers’, then a simple ‘cock’ edit would have definitely been on the cards. 

So, the word was changed in the script to “bulls**t”. This is arguably a naughtier word on the swear spectrum, but the lack of penis-ness meant it took the cake here. 

Did the royal family interfere in any other way? Well, Aaron indicated that but his memory was foggy on any rifts outside of poppycock-gate. “There was maybe one or two more things [they asked to be changed], but I can’t remember,” the creator confessed.

I wonder if Suits will retrospectively edit the episode and let Meghan drop the poppycock bomb now she’s detached herself from the crown? Or perhaps a new podcast is on the horizon… Poppycock with Meghan Markle. I’d certainly listen. 

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Image credit: Suits, USA Network + Punkee.