Well, Meghan Markle’s return to acting doesn’t seem to have lasted very long. It was only three days ago that we first heard news that her move back to the UK – along with Prince Harry and their children Lilibet and Archie – was spurred on by an offer to star in an as-yet-unknown TV project. Later the same day, it was reported that the role was in the third series of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix gangster series The Gentlemen. Now, it seems that any hopes of the Duchess returning to the small screen have already been dashed.
According to author of The Palace Papers, Tina Brown, Netflix has nipped any discussions with Meghan in the bud. “Newsflash: I have heard that Meghan Markle’s role in Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentleman is OFF,” she wrote on X. “The backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward,” Brown followed up in a Substack column. Now, to make matters even more complicated, The Sun has now reported that Netflix is still interested in casting Meghan in The Gentlemen (Netflix declined to comment). Are you keeping up?
If the claim is true, being dropped from Ritchie’s very successful (but not very good) series might seem like another blow for the Sussexes – a public humiliation hot on the heels of Harry losing his recent privacy case against the Daily Mail. But I would argue it’s a blessing in disguise. If the reaction to just the idea of her starring in a Netflix series courted so much negative attention – attention that, let’s not forget, Harry and Meghan claimed played a part in their leaving the country in the first place – then just imagine how unbearably brutal the scrutiny would be when the show comes out.
If this debacle proves anything, it’s that Meghan should never return to acting.
Meghan as Rachel Zane in American legal drama ‘Suits’ (Photo: AP)The best actors in the world are able to sink into a role, embody an entirely new person, no matter how famous they are away from set. But, with the greatest respect, Markle is not Olivia Colman. As ambitious, smart lawyer Rachel Zane in Suits, she was good – at times even great – but it was hardly the most demanding, emotion-led role. In other words, there’s not some alternate universe in which Meghan didn’t marry Harry and becomes an Oscar-winning Hollywood doyenne.
But it’s down to more than just her acting ability. she is far too famous and, frankly, far too divisive to ever return to her old life. She has spent the past five years playing the part of Meghan – wife, mother, homemaker, jam seller. The jump back to actor is just too much of a stretch after all the work she’s done to turn herself into a brand.
The integrity of any character, storyline, film or series would be immediately undermined by her presence – all we’d see is the Duchess of Sussex pretending to be someone else. Not to mention that any part she plays would reek of stunt casting – already there are stories that the news of her part in The Gentlemen was leaked by her team “to make her in demand”. If that’s true, the desperation is not a good look.
It’s sad that Meghan won’t ever be able to return to her old career; I presume she wanted to become an actor for the love of the craft, rather than the off chance it might mean she’ll marry a prince one day. And if not acting, what else should she do? I’m sure she’s asking herself that very same question.
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