‘Suits’: Rick Hoffman On Louis Litt’s Love Life & Hamptons Home Purchase

Louis Litt isn’t letting the firm’s troubles get in the way of
his search for romantic happiness on “Suits.”

After his plans to have the office reworked were shut down,
the Pearson Specter Litt attorney, played by Rick Hoffman, recently purchased a
home in the Hamptons so that he could work with a woman he is interested in —
architect Tara Messer (Carly Pope).

For those wondering about the lengths Louis is going to to
land himself in Tara’s orbit though, Rick has a fun reminder of his character’s
history, including his firm-saving financial bailout at the start of Season 6.

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‘Suits’: Rick Hoffman On Louis Litt’s Love Life & Hamptons Home Purchase (USA)

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“Let’s put it this way, the amount of money Louis claimed he has saved compared to Harvey and Jessica — Harvey asked him, ‘What, are you a king?’ Louis has plenty of money and is very frugal, and yet, when he’s in love, is there really ever a price tag on love?” Rick laughed.

And for anyone still left wondering why Louis would buy a house to try and get closer to his seemingly perfect woman, Rick also shared a reminder that his character once went to court (against Nigel Nesbitt) over a cat (Mikado).

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“I’m not sure what’s more crazy – mudding around the world because you have a broken heart, or buying a house to spend months and months of time with a woman that you want to have fall in love with you,” Rick also added. “Look, there’s that [notion] love makes you crazy, so, I mean, would I ever do it? No. Would Louis do it? Absolutely.”

As for the value of the house, Rick noted his character’s Hamptons home is probably worth around $6 million when we thought (wrongly) it was a much higher number.

House buying aside, a more important question though, for Rick’s character is whether Louis is ready (after everything that happened with Sheila) to love again.

“Like any situation when one is in love, there are always challenges and he definitely faces some more of those this season with this new love interest he has because nothing good comes easy,” Rick said. “But, love suits Louis. That’s really what he’s about. Louis just wants love and wants to be in love. I think Louis doesn’t get enough love.”

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Louis and Tara will have scenes in Wednesday’s new episode, and it will allow viewers to get to know more about Carly’s character.

“It won’t take long until we find out that Tara isn’t perfect and it won’t take long until those imperfections only make Louis fall more for Tara,” Rick said.

On this season of “Suits,” the firm has been working hard to do whatever they can to keep Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) safe and to try and get him out of prison. It’s meant Harvey (Gabriel Macht) taking on William Sutter, a shady Wall Street hot shot, as a client, and as the season continues, Louis will get more involved in that situation (beyond the advice he gave Harvey in last week’s episode).

“The writers have this really kind of cool way of bringing the characters somehow together towards the crescendo of these types of storylines, so Louis, in his own way, is involved, just as far as what degree, we’ll let the viewer find out on their own,” he said.

And we can only hope there will be more interactions with trader, and new Pearson Specter Litt tenant, Stu Buzzini.

“Aaron [Korsh, Executive Producer of ‘Suits’] likes to pitch the six of us some of his ideas even before we get to read it in the script and [when] Aaron… called me late one night and told me what he had in mind, I was hysterical,” Rick said of when he found out about the in-office Season 6 challenge for Louis. “I just love that they’ve brought back the comedy, and for Louis to be kind of duped and sort of I guess, gullible and the lighter side of Louis as opposed to what had happened in Season 5, where everything got very heavy for every single character. So the fact that he got himself into this hot water situation with the financial guys, with his bran bars and his prune juice and having his catchphrase cups urinated in — I am in love with all of those ideas and I’ve had a great time filming them with Ian [Reed Kessler], who plays Stu Buzzini, who’s a great actor.”

“Suits” airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on USA.

Jolie Lash

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