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WATCH | Lex Scott Davis On Preparing For Her Role In 'Suits LA'
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4/4/2025
From her dance roots to leading roles, the actress shares how discipline, purpose, and community shape everything she does.
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So I wanted to actually stay on the character of Erica.
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She's known as savvy and strong-willed. I wanted to ask you, how did you prepare
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to step into the role and did you pull any inspiration from any real life figures at all?
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Absolutely. In leading up to the first audition, I went back to watch the original show,
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which I had never seen at that point. And I wanted to watch the first episode to understand the tone,
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to understand the world. I accidentally binged the whole first season when I should have been
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studying for the audition. But I did watch everything and I was very inspired by the women
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in the original, specifically Pearson, played by Gina Torres. I really loved her strength
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that she had and in her dominance. And I just felt like she was a powerhouse.
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And although Erica is different from her, there's a lot of inspiration I did pull from Pearson.
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But I had to put a pin in it. I'm going to come back to it because I didn't want it to be like
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I was copying something. Because exactly what you're saying is I also left room for me to add
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to it and to fill in colors as Lex and life experiences and women in my life that have
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inspired me to fill the shoes of Erica Rollins. Another person is my mom, who was a paralegal for
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the majority of her life and now still is running a law firm where I'm from in Baltimore, Maryland.
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And she also happens to be a very fabulous lady. So pulling a little bit from her,
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mixed with things that I found relatable to Erica, just as Lex and the things that she was fighting
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for herself and trying to prove her worth to other people around her. I think that is something
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we all can relate to. And so just taking the time to be truthful to what was on the page and
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lean into that. And I really believe that Erica is really an amalgamation of all these wonderful,
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powerful women in my life.
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