Gabriel Macht Talks ‘Full Circle’ First Scene as Harvey on ‘Fits L.A.’ (Unique)

Gabriel Macht did not understand how nostalgic it might be to step again into Harvey Specter’s sneakers.

Gabriel, who performed the no-nonsense lawyer on Fits from 2011 to 2019, reprised the position for a guest-star arc in Fits L.A., and the primary scenes he shot for the spinoff have been coincidentally filmed on the park the place he grew up enjoying baseball.

“We ended up taking pictures the primary couple scenes at Rancho Park, which is the park that I practiced highschool baseball at,” the L.A. native, 53, tells PEOPLE. “So getting right into a uniform and enjoying baseball for that scene, not solely was it nostalgic simply to be Harvey once more, [but also to be] on a set with my showrunner from the unique present, Aaron [Korsh] and the administrators are the identical administrators and writers. In order that was all very nostalgic.”

Gabriel’s father, fellow actor Stephen Macht, additionally stopped by throughout filming, which made issues all of the extra particular.

“I stated, ‘If you wish to see a scene, it is best to come to this scene.’ There he’s sitting within the stands… the place he used to observe me play [as a kid],” he remembers. “That was this full-circle second.”

Gabriel says that it was “extraordinarily nostalgic on that degree” to movie his first scenes again at such a well-recognized place, as he displays, “To be on this area of recreating this character that has type of made a dent within the enterprise, within the public zeitgeist, and coming again, it was an attention-grabbing type of dynamic. It was not solely nostalgic, however it was a candy, type of full-circle second.”

Throughout, the return to Harvey was surprisingly simple for the actor, who has taken a step again from the business since Fits‘ conclusion in 2019.

“It was a bit stunning that it was simple solely in that Aaron did not write actually impossibly troublesome dialogue for me,” Gabriel says. “For as soon as.”

Korsh made positive to toss in “one or two speeches” for Gabriel although, which “triggered some flashbacks for me,” he teases. “For probably the most half, it was a variety of enjoyable. We had fun.”

Working with Stephen Amell, who performs L.A.-based lawyer Ted Black within the sequence, was additionally a spotlight.

“Stephen was actually wonderful to work with — and the entire forged. I did not have many scenes with the remainder of the forged, however we had fun,” Gabriel says.

The daddy of two beforehand advised PEOPLE he “had little or no curiosity” in returning to the performing world however determined he would reprise Harvey as “a manner that I might type of go the baton to Stephen [Amell] and the forged in L.A.”

“If I [could have] something to do with serving to assist the present and getting it off [the ground], it’s virtually like [giving] a blessing,” he stated.

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New episodes of Fits L.A. premiere Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC.