'Suits LA' star Azita Ghanizada teases new details about Ted Black, Roslyn's relationship revealed in finale
We're heading into the finale of Suits LA (Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, CTV.ca and the CTV app, streaming the next day on Crave), following the announcement that the Suits spinoff was cancelled ahead of the end of its first season. But with just one episode left, Azita Ghanizada, who plays Ted Black's (Stephen Amell) secretary Roslyn, teased where we leave the characters in the finale.
"When the finale comes out, I think it's going to really show how their relationship is grounded," Ghanizada told Yahoo Canada. "And I think it's really powerful how Aaron Korsh and Genevieve Sparling and Jon Cowan, [all the writers], they really came up with a storyline for how these two have a dynamic that was forged at fire, that is based on trust and respect."
"And I'm so excited for people to finally understand why she can talk to him the way that she does so candidly, and why he trusts her so much."
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As we saw in Episode 12, when Roslyn finds out Ted went to warn Samantha (Rachelle Goulding) that Erica (Lex Scott Davis) is looking to take Nicole Kidman as a client, Roslyn is particularly protective of the firm.
"Roslyn doesn't care about that other law firm, she wants her law firm ... to fly and soar," Ghanizada said. "And so keeping everybody in the same place is really important."
"There's some post traumatic stress going on for her after being cut out of the merger. It's like nobody else can leave. And if you want to leave, get out. We don't want to be surprised by anything else anymore. ... I think there's a real strength and clarity for her that she's not going anywhere, and she expects everybody else to be at the same level."
But while we know that the show is ending, Ghanizada did have some things in mind for how Roslyn could have been explored.
"In my heart [I feel like] Roslyn has always been very connected to the entertainment industry, where Ted is coming from this prosecutor role in New York," Ghanizada said. "I would love to see more of [her] Hollywood story leaned into a bit."
Much like her costar Stephen Amell, the in-person audition element of the casting process for Suits LA really appealed to the Ghanizada.
"I went in and it was just so alive," Ghanizada said. "They get to talk to you about the character. You don't really get that on in the form of the self-tape world. It's a little bit colder."
"I very much love this world. I love this world of high-paced, sexy, fast lawyers, and especially entertainment law. I mean, I've lived in Los Angeles for 20 years now, so I feel so connected to this kind of storytelling. And I was such a fan of every legal show that's ever existed. ... In my bones, I was like, 'Oh, this is for me.' And the role was written, 30 to 60, all ethnicities. They were not trying to recreate what they had. They were very openminded on who this was going to be. It just has to be the right personality, the right essence, ... a woman that can be the right hand to a powerhouse attorney."
But Ghanizada also has an interesting connection to the original show Suits. While that show was being filmed in Toronto, Ghanizada was in the city shooting Alphas, which aired from 2011 to 2012.
"After my audition with Aaron Korsh, he looked at my resume and he goes, 'Wait a minute. I think I met you in Toronto.' And I had, but I didn't bring it up, because you just kind of want to go with a blank slate," Ghanizada said. "But when Rick Hoffman came [on in Episode 12], we knew each other in Toronto, and he was like, 'This is so crazy, isn't it?'"
"Being in Toronto at that time, we really relied on our actors and casts from other shows. It made the city feel more like our home away from home. ... I would go to ... hot yoga with some of the other cast members from other shows. And it's such a full circle moment."
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