From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm sitting across from Patrick J. Adams,

who some of you may know from his work in this

interesting little Sally Potter movie, Brage, in which the background matched his eyes,

but he's best known of playing, of course, Mike Ross on USA's suits, which is now in its third season.

Patrick, thanks so much you're doing this.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor.

One of the things I've got to say about watching the show is just,

it's an interesting watching Mike from going this guy who was in his way almost autistic and

like used his knowledge of like abstraction to address the concrete world. Yeah, there's like this

infantile quality to him at the beginning of this of this series. Even though he's, he's this

brilliant guy, he's also this complete screw up. We always

laughed about it in the first season of the show, that he's the kind of guy who could remember

everything in the dictionary. He could remember every phone number in his, you know, you'd never

have to put a phone number in his phone. You'd never have to write it down, but he'd always lose

his phone. He was that kind of character.

And that was a lot of fun to play in the beginning of the series.

That's what drew me to him, because I related a lot to that.

In what way?

Well, it was my first, this is really my first big responsibility as an actor.

I've been kicking around and doing guest spots, but this show was a big deal for me. It was a lot of responsibility and taking on a show of my own being the lead of a show. It was, you know, what you were seeing in those first two seasons was really

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