Hollywood shakeup! Meghan Markle wasn’t a stranger to fame when she fell in love with Prince Harry — but following their 2018 wedding, actresses started clamoring to play her on screen.
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Meghan Markle is recalling how difficult things were for her on Deal Or No Deal. The tea…
Of course, the now-former actor appeared on the show early in her career, from 2006 to 2007, as a briefcase model. Her acting trajectory soared in the years after that with a long run as a regular on USA Network‘s show Suits beginning in 2011. Then she walked away from the series — and the industry altogether — after meeting Prince Harry and marrying him in 2018.
But her fairy tale ending had a not-so-glamorous beginning! And now, the 41-year-old mom of two is recounting what she went through years ago on the famous game show.
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Speaking on a new episode of her podcast Archetypes this week, Meghan got real with this week’s guest, Paris Hilton, as the pair were uniquely primed to talk about people’s misconceptions of their lives and careers.
As for the Duchess of Sussex, she told Paris how she was “really grateful” to have the job when she first started. Knowing she was using the role to pay her bills and support herself, Meghan kept at it. But after a while on set, she grew tired of seeing how “little substance” there was in her work as a briefcase presenter.
She said:
Part of the issue for Meghan was her own background. As she explained to the Simple Life alum, she was coming off a time having studied international relations in college. But those interests in global politics and diplomacy didn’t mesh with modeling a briefcase on a TV game show. So, she walked away from the gig after determining it didn’t align with her values.
Prince Harry‘s wife explained that, dropping the money-quote “bimbo” comment in the chat:
Meghan mused about some of the
Hollywood shakeup! Meghan Markle wasn’t a stranger to fame when she fell in love with Prince Harry — but following their 2018 wedding, actresses started clamoring to play her on screen.
told Variety about any actors who might depict her on screen. “The silliness.
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Archetypes” podcast.The Duchess of Sussex, 41, opened the episode reminiscing on her “fascinating” experience as a briefcase girl on “Deal or No Deal” while she was pursuing acting, a few years before landing her role in “Suits.”The former actress appeared on Season 2 of the show in 2006, and while she acknowledged that she was “grateful” for the job, she felt she was valued for all the wrong reasons. Markle said she would be on set for the game show and think back to her time as a college intern at the US Embassy in Argentina, where she was “being valued specifically for my brain.”“Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite,” she said about “Deal or No Deal.”“There was a very cookie-cutter idea of precisely what we should look like,” Markle added, sharing that girls would line up at tapings for different stations where they would put on lashes, get extensions put in or get padding in their bras — and they even received spray tan vouchers every week.”“It was solely about beauty, and not necessarily about brains,” the Duchess said.Markle shared one detail she would “never forget,” when one producer on the show who couldn’t pronounce her last name would scream, “Mar-kell suck it in!” repeatedly. She ended up quitting the show, revealing she was “thankful for the job, but not how it made me feel, which was not smart.”“I was surrounded by smart women on that stage with me but that wasn’t the focus of why we were there,” Markle said.“I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach knowing I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage,” she continued. “I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks and little substance.
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