Summary

• The Suits L.A. pilot adds three guest stars, including John Amos playing himself as a client.
• Victoria Justice and Kevin Weisman have also ed the cast in guest roles.
• Stephen Amell stars as Ted Black in the potential spinoff to the USA Network legal drama Suits.

The Suits L.A. pilot has added a robust guest cast that includes a 1970s television icon playing himself. The pilot is setting up a potential new spinoff to the long-running USA Network legal drama Suits, which became a smash streaming hit on Netflix and Peacock in 2023. It stars Stephen Amell as Ted Black, who moves from New York City, where he was a federal prosecutor, back to his Los Angeles firm Black Lane Law. The main cast of the pilot also includes Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis, Bryan Greenberg, and Troy Winbush.

Per Deadline, three guest stars have been added to the lineup for the Suits L.A. spinoff pilot. This includes John Amos playing himself as one of Ted's longtime clients. Also on hand are Victoria Justice as up-and-coming movie star Dylan Pryor and Kevin Weisman as Lester Thompson, a "powerful man" who will be facing a murder charge. While Thompson's job remains unknown, the remaining characters showcase the unique Hollywood focus of the cases featured in the spinoff.

Everywhere You've Seen The New Suits L.A. Guest Stars

All Three Actors Have Played Lead Roles On Television

The Suits L.A. cast seems to be stacking the deck in the hope of making a full season a reality. All three of the incoming actors have held major television roles that will help bring legitimacy to the pilot. This includes singer Victoria Justice, who played the title role of Tori Vega on the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious, which followed a 47-episode stint as Lola Martinez opposite Jamie Lynn Spears on Zoey 101. She has also had a recent onscreen resurgence in a variety of movies including The Tutor and the Netflix originals Afterlife of the Party and A Perfect Pairing.

John Amos' most prominent lead role came much earlier when he played James Evans, Sr. on the first three seasons of the iconic 1970s sitcom Good Times. He was later cemented as an icon of the era when he played the older Kunta Kinte in the miniseries Roots in 1977. Since the end of the 1970s, he has appeared in a variety of movie and television titles including The West Wing, The Righteous Gemstones, Me Time, Coming 2 America, and Die Hard 2.

Good Times, which followed a family living in a housing project in Chicago, was recently rebooted as an adult animated series on Netflix.

Weisman's most prominent lead role came when he played Marshall Flinkman opposite Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow in all five seasons of the early 2000s thriller series Alias. Since then, some of his most prominent roles have included Kives in Hello Ladies, Ray Spiewack in Scorpion, and Dale Yorkes in Runaways. Given their long resumes, seeing all three stars interacting with the lead Suits L.A. characters will likely imbue the show with a feeling of genuine Los Angeles showbiz glamour.

Source: Deadline