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Wendell Pierce is able to reprise his position as Robert Zane for Fits L.A.
“There’s a brand new Fits being produced proper now, so I’m certain that we are going to be making cameos on it,” Pierce, 60, stated in a current look on SiriusXM’s The Highlight with Jessica Shaw. “I higher be requested to make a cameo on the present as a result of we went on strike as a result of we’re not getting something from that resurgence.”
Pierce’s remark refers to the newest actor’s strike, which lasted from July to November final 12 months, the place members of the SAG-AFTRA union demanded higher wages plus elevated residual funds from streaming providers, amongst different asks.
“No, however I’d like to make a cameo on the present,” he concluded.
Robin L Marshall/WireImage Whereas they performed dad and daughter on Fits for seven seasons, Wendell Pierce took it upon himself to present Meghan Markle some fatherly recommendation. Pierce, 60, recalled a second when he spoke to Markle, 42, about relationship Prince Harry throughout filming. “I’m at all times reminded of the final day working with Meghan, which […]
Pierce’s recurring position as lawyer Robert Zane (the daddy to Meghan Markle’s Rachel Zane) began on season 2 in 2013 and lasted all through the remainder of the collection’ run. Fits got here to an finish in 2019 after 9 seasons and made a resurgence after happening Netflix in 2023.
Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane and Wendell Pierce as Robert Zane on ‘Fits.’ Ben Mark Holzberg/USA Community
“I believe it’s essentially the most fascinating factor that abruptly, our present bought on Netflix and it blew up,” Pierce stated throughout his SiriusXM interview. “We bought a textual content, a sequence textual content, from Gabriel Macht, who’s the lead, and he simply despatched this textual content to everybody saying, ‘WTF.’”
Following the newfound success of Fits, it was introduced in February that the present could be getting a derivative collection. Stephen Amell is ready to star as former New York prosecutor, Ted Black, who’s taking his profession to Los Angeles to characterize some high-profile shoppers.
“His agency is at a disaster level, and in an effort to survive he should embrace a task he held in contempt his whole profession,” the present’s official logline reads. “Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who check their loyalties to each Ted and one another whereas they’ll’t assist however combine their private {and professional} lives. All of this is happening whereas occasions from years in the past slowly unravel that led Ted to go away behind every little thing and everybody he liked.”
The Fits franchise lives on with one other spinoff, Fits L.A. Fits L.A. will characteristic new characters performed by Stephen Amell, Bryan Greenberg, Josh McDermitt and Lex Scott Davis. It is going to be positioned in a brand new place, however it’s set in the identical universe as the unique collection. Fits ran for 9 seasons from 2011 to […]
Amell, 43, gave followers a primary have a look at himself in character with a July Instagram publish after they began filming in Vancouver.
“Ted Black will see you now,” the actor captioned the picture.
Other than Pierce, another authentic Fits solid members have expressed curiosity in returning for the reboot as nicely.
“I imply, I believe it’s in a world the place some characters may in reality come [back],” Macht, 52, instructed The Hollywood Reporter in February.