Meghan Markle gives advice to the actor who might play her in the future: 'She can call me'
- Meghan Markle hopes whoever plays her in the future looks at all her "dimensions," she told Variety.
- "I hope that in preparing for that role, she finds the softness and the playfulness," she said.
Meghan Markle, who was an actor before becoming the Duchess of Sussex, has some thoughts about the person, or people, who might play her in depictions of the royal family in the future.
"It's all weird," she told Variety in a new cover story. "You have to compartmentalize. Anyone talking about me or casting an actor to play me, that will be a caricature of me that has been created for a business that makes people a lot of money."
"Once you can separate that out, it's much easier to go: 'OK. That actually has nothing to do with me,'" she continued. "It genuinely doesn't. It's a hard lesson to come to grips with."
Markle was landing bit parts on TV and in movies in the early 2000s, but she finally landed a role on the USA series "Suits" beginning in 2011. In late 2017, she was engaged to Prince Harry and walked away from acting.
Markle only hopes that whoever takes on playing her sees all the layers.
"I hope that in preparing for that role, she finds the softness and the playfulness and the laughter," she told Variety. "The silliness. I just hope she finds the dimensions. Also, she can call me!"
Currently, Markle and Prince Harry have development deals at Netflix and Spotify. But would she ever consider going back to acting again?
"No. I'm done," she told the trade. "I guess never say never, but my intention is to absolutely not."