[News article] Why Meghan Markle was underrated as an actress

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Rare praise from the i:
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/a-suits-revival-wouldnt-work-without-meghan-2556238

The legal drama Suits is having a surprise moment in the spotlight 12 years after it first aired. The key to its success? Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex

She is an attractive woman. Imo she's just nowhere near as attractive as the women I’ve mentioned or been compared to. Also, she's forgettable as an actress, otherwise she would have made it big in Hollywood prior to meeting Harry. She certainly wasn’t getting noticed for her acting in Suits.

I hate comparing women like this.

Everyone is different.

thats just your opinion.
I think she is just as attractive as AJ. also seems nicer. but thats just my opinion.
who knows how her career would have gone. she was good in suits. (I just didn't like the character she played)
nasty to keep making out she is not attractive/good enough.
she had a career. maybe thats what rankles.

Correction. Hollywood didn't think she was good enough, otherwise she would have made it as a famous movie star, instead of acting in a sitcom that not a lot of people knew about back then. How do you know she's nicer than AJ? Also, I said in my opinion about her looks and clarified that it is subjective. Accept the fact that she only achieved the level of fame she has now because she married harry, and not because of her acting career. It’s not being nasty to say the truth. If you wanna blame anyone, blame Hollywood because they didn’t think she was good enough.

Totally agree with you.

She's a beautiful woman, there's no getting away with that. As is Kate and many others. It's not a competition.

It is a competition when it comes to acting though.

Not even acting, it’s about charisma mostly. Keanu Reeves isn’t much of an actor (despite being ridiculously good looking), but he has enough appeal to become a global movie star.

theres plenty of actresses who are more talented (and even better looking) than Julia Roberts but there’s a reason why she is a movie star and not them.

in Hollywood it definitely is.

On Mumsnet it definitely should not be.

Meghan wants to be involved in Hollywood so I think that the industry’s opinions would be more relevant for her than our opinions here on Mumsnet.

Please stop continually quoting me. I dont understand your post at all.

We don't agree, there is no point to this conversation.

I think there are many beautiful looking people and Meghan is an attractive woman.

i would love to see photos of the posters who don't think Meghan has good looks.lol

I would like to know as well the posters who don’t think Meghan has good looks. I wrote she’s pretty in a girl next door way, but do I think she’s as pretty as Angelina Jolie? Jessica Alba or Monica Belluci? No, I don’t think so.

No one is disputing that Meghan is an attractive woman though. 🤨

I’m sure once she was cast in Suits her agent would have started putting her forward for movies etc. it’s their job and that’s how they make their money. Obviously no one was interested.
im rewatching ER and I watched it when it was first out. George Clooney stood out early and the industry recognised that within 2 years he had a lead movie, so assume that was filmed the year after ER came out.
I can see Meghan was in suits for 7 seasons and it didn’t lead to anything else in that time? Yeah she was never going to be a lead in movies.

Exactly. When Margot Robbie first started in Neighbours, I remember thinking how much she lit up the screen. There was definitely something about her that made it hard for me not to notice her, she basically overshadowed the rest of the cast and I recall thinking that she looked and acted like a movie star coz of her presence. Wasn't surprised that she did become one. There are some people who have that undeniable x factor to them right from the start, Marilyn Monroe had it too.

@MamoruHisaishi see i disagree about MR. its a bit like chris hemsworth, he was terrible in home and away, but look at him now.

That's just my opinion though, I thought Margot Robbie was beautiful and charismatic even when she was just starting out in neighbours and therefore I wasn't surprised that she made it in Hollywood. Nothing to do with her acting skills (I find her to be okay but not amazing), just her presence on tv.

I also do think you have to be ridiculously good looking to get noticed in hollywood if you don't have any charisma or acting ability. This is basically what happened with Megan fox, Jessica alba, Jessica biel, and I think Chris hemsworth. I doubt he's going to have the career trajectory of Leonardo dicaprio or Robert downey jr.

meghan fox was beautiful, I remember her in the transformer film.
Chris is more an action guy, so I think he will be more syvester stallone than Leonardo dicaprio, he will still have a good career.

Yes that's true, not saying Chris hemsworth won't have a good career. I personally think he's destined to be a solid B list actor rather than A list movie star. The reason being, Chris Pratt seems to be the one gaining all the blockbuster leading man roles and therefore is more likely to become the A list action movie star of this generation.

Hollywood is very competitive, and looks do count. As to her acting ability, she was nothing remarkable (unlike, say Meryl Streep or our own Jodie Comer), and even if she was, many very good actors never make it big, it's just too competitive. But the fame she has now due to her marriage will definitely be an advantage in securing roles now. Though whatever she does she will, as now, be roundly criticised for it as that's the nature of fame.

pmsl at chris hemsworth being a b actor.

I know, right!

If ever proof was needed that Mumsnet was incredibly hypocritical when it comes to Meghan, this thread is it.

Multiple threads about Kate have been deleted for being very mildly critical of her clothing choices (like the thread started to say something like "I don't agree with Kate's decision to wear very expensive jewelry to meet NHS nurses" - deleted within minutes as "not in the spirit).

Yet pages of gleefully trashing Meghan's looks, bafflingly comparing her to random movie stars, and claiming she wasn't attractive enough to make it in Hollywood, is allowed to stand.

And still people who post trashing her every single day, claim not to hate her and not to be invested in her.

I’m sure once she was cast in Suits her agent would have started putting her forward for movies etc. it’s their job and that’s how they make their money. Obviously no one was interested.

Tell me you've never worked in Hollywood without telling me you've never worked in Hollywood.

Meghan starred on a popular TV series for 7 years, and made a good living through acting work. That alone puts her in the top 1% of all actors.

Most agents would far rather have a client in a stable TV role than be auditioning for films, actually. But then you'd know that if you'd ever actually worked there.

The fact she didn't land a role in a movie that became a hit is really meaningless. She lived in Canada shooting for most of the year, so she would not have been available for auditions, which are nearly all in LA. She probably did have auditions, and yes of course she would have had many unsuccessful auditions, but so do all actors. I was reading an article just the other day about how many failed auditions Margot Robbie had when she was first trying to make it.

Auditions are a crapshoot, and who lands the role is based on a million different factors. I know incredible actors who weren't cast solely because another actor with the same hair colour had already been cast, and they couldn't have two women with the same hair colour. It really can be as petty as that. I know that when I've cast projects, the actor I've cast has not always been the person I thought was the most talented. Availability is also a huge issue when talking about actors who are already under contract for a TV series, since they can only film during their season breaks.

I don't think Meghan was especially a strong actor but tons of shitty actors become famous and lots of incredible actors don't (look how many extraordinary stage actors never break through into film - David Tennant tried like crazy to 'make it' in Hollywood and failed, but obviously has been hugely successful in both stage and screen work in this country).