Mendes stepped away from Hollywood a decade ago to focus on her family, with 2014's Lost River being her most recent film. She told PEOPLE in May that it was "the easiest decision" she's ever made.
PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at Rafferty and Adams’ Suits auditions — and their reaction to the tapes — as they watch alongside casting director Bonnie Zane on their SiriusXM podcast, Sidebar: A Suits Watch Podcast. In the clip, Adams, who played Mike Ross, surprises Rafferty by first playing her audition for Donna Paulsen.
“Bonnie has brought with her, dear listener, our auditions,” he begins. “Sarah, I don't know if you're prepared for this, mentally or emotionally. I've never seen it. She texted it to us earlier this week, we both did not watch it, which is funny, we both independently were like, ‘Thanks so much,’ and did not watch it. And then we thought this might be, while deeply uncomfortable, a cathartic, cool thing to do together.”
“I'm in freeze, I'm in freeze,” she says. “Oh gosh, my heart hurts a little bit. God, I was young — I was young once! This is like the only time I'm going to go, ‘Yeah, I'd give that girl that part.’”
“I loved the nonverbal,” Zane explains. “You just created a whole back story and front story, and there wasn't a lot to do for Donna in that audition because there wasn't a lot in the pilot for Donna, and you took that. And the mistake that actors make is, ‘Okay, I only have five pages, I only have three pages, I got to make a meal,’ and you just kind of laid it out there for what it was: simple, great. And that's probably what sparked the initial interest.”
Reflecting on that time in her life, Rafferty reveals she had been thinking about quitting acting before she got the role on Suits, but she decided to give it one more chance.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I'll just go, I'll fly myself to New York, I'll get the Airbnb, let me give it a shot,’” she remembers. “‘It's not working the usual way with the testing, the run it up the flag pole, the pilots aren't getting picked up, you know, the thing is happening, so let's try it this way.’”
Rafferty also shares that at that audition, she could feel that there was “something more to this character” that went beyond the script, and once she got the part, she was able to dig deeper into who she felt Donna was.
“[It’s] actually one of those things that, in an audition, it's useful, because it's indicating there is more story here to tell,” Adams notes. “Then you get into the nuance of like, ‘Well, now we have a whole show.’”
He then pulls up his own tape, joking that they had run out of time to play it. Looking at himself over a decade ago, he recalled his preparation for the audition.
“I bought this suit just for this audition – I still have it,” Adams says. “It does not fit, not even close, but I remember I went and spent a good amount of money on a suit, and I did not have money to spend. But I was like,’ I need an actual, real-life grown-up suit.’”
The scene was longer than Rafferty’s and showed Mike trying to get hired by Harvey Specter, who ended up being played by Gabriel Macht. When it ends, Rafferty and Zane applaud Adams as he exclaims, “Woah. Woah.”
“I'm sort of speechless,” he says. “I'm very proud of that little… I am so nervous. And you said you don't see it and I can see that you don't see it, I know how nervous I am. I know I'm in that room and I know that part of the gig is looking not nervous when you are actually super terrified.”
“Yes, I'm using it rather than trying to deny it,” he agrees. “I'm embracing that he would be nervous too, but he's also determined to get this job. And I've talked about it before, I can see that thing that I'm doing where I'm like, ‘I can just ask this room full of people for this job the same way that Mike's asking Harvey for the job.’”
In the entertainer's memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part 1, the "I Got You Babe" singer, 78, recalls an invitation she and her then-husband — the late Sonny Bono — got from Dalà and a sequence of events that had her screaming on the inside.
When staying at the St. Regis Hotel in N.Y. while visiting a friend, Cher and Bono ran into Francis Ford Coppola who was filming a movie. They also bumped into the prolific surrealist artist, who invited them to a party that evening he was hosting with his wife, Gala.
Cher said that everyone in their suite "was either beautiful or bizarre and all of them looked as if they were high," calling the experience "like stepping into a bad Fellini movie."
Cher poses in the press room during the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony streaming on Disney+ at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 19, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio
Despite detecting her discomfort, Dalà invited Cher and Bono back for dinner the following evening. Upon arriving at DalÃ's studio, Cher realized that an orgy had just taken place. She recalled a "large room where people were naked or in various states of undress."
Celebrity Net WorthOne bra-less chick came out wearing a see-through blouse that she likened to cellophane wrap. The "Believe" hitmaker attempted to look unbothered while Bono and Coppola, 85, were "sissies," huddled together on the other side of the room.
Cher then realized she had sat on something, and pulled out a "gorgeous painted rubber fish" from beneath her that had a moving tail. She assumed it was a child's toy but Dalà told her it was actually a vibrating sex toy.
She immediately dropped the fish and Bono and Coppola doubled over laughing. She kept her composure, but "inside, however, I was — how can I put this? — screaming."
The group, including the "bizarre orgy people" and Cher, Bono and Coppola, went out to dinner. Several minutes into the meal, Dalà said they had a "previous engagement" and relocated to a table a few feet away. Cher, Bono and Coppola were beyond relieved and couldn't stop laughing.
I think we were drawn to each other initially through our shared sense of humor, and that has remained the foundation of our relationship, Ferrell, who has partnered with PayPal, says. "I think, ultimately, that's our bond, making each other laugh."
Though he details that his wife, 55, can sometimes be "a tough one to crack," the You're Cordially Invited star continues, "Every now and then I'll get her to laugh, and she'll be like, 'Okay, okay. You still got it.' "
Through all of life's ups and downs and raising a family — and with everything everyone has to deal with, especially with how hectic lives can be these days — it's always great to have this partner in crime that you can kind of step away from the fray and just share a thought and share a moment with, where you're both kind of still on the same page, and you get to kind of connect that way, Ferrell adds.
It was kind of too much too fast at too young ... like the intensity level was like, ‘Oh woah,' Ferrell explained while appearing on the MeSsy podcast in July.
When the holiday season comes around and Ferrell has to get a gift for his wife, he tells PEOPLE there's one item he never has to worry about purchasing.
Still, Ferrell considers himself to be an excellent shopper, adding, "I actually really love gift-giving, especially if I can zero in on that very specific, special gift."
Through his partnership with PayPal — in which he stars in a commercial where he sings a reimagined version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere" — Ferrell helps himself, and others, save money.
PayPal is one of the most secure financial services you can use. ... It's so versatile and there are tons of options, especially during the holidays, with cashback and things like that, he says, adding: "My mother of all people has said she has gotten more feedback on my PayPal commercials than almost anything I've ever done, so if that doesn't say something, if that doesn't speak to the reach of what we're doing, I don't know what does."
In 1996, Menendez and his brother, Erik, were sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 first-degree murders of their parents, Kitty and José Menendez. Before they were sentenced, Menendez had already been communicating with Sneed via letters since 1993.
Menendez married Sneed from prison in November 2003. On Nov. 21, 2024, however, Sneed announced that she and Menendez had separated, bringing their two-decade-long relationship to an end.
Although Menendez has been behind bars for years, he told PEOPLE in January 2017 that his constant communication with Sneed helped bring him "peace and joy" while in prison.
“Our interaction tends to be very free of distractions and we probably have more intimate conversations than most married spouses do, who are distracted by life’s events,” Menendez said.
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