Meghan resuming her previous career?

[Fifiesta]

Meghan has been offered a part in series 3 of The Gentleman, by Guy Ritchie?

What career? She was a cable actress pushing 40 , she wasnt a big time Hollywood movie star

Imagine this instead your daughter.
She'd got a double honours degree, had a few jobs lost graduation and then found a good job - let's pretend she was a chef...that whilst she wasn't head chef, but she was ma sous chef in London earning decent money and gaining experience, ready to apply for head chef roles.Then she meets her future husband and stops working as his family can give her work that she's excited to try out, and then it doesn't work out, so she decides to raise her kids and try and earn a bit of money whilst they're small, like making greetings cards and selling them at local fairs. Now the kids are both at school she wants to return to her previous career and try again she come to you for advice about getting back into cheffing....

Would you go "well darling, you weren't very successful as were you? You only made it to sous chef.... You don't really deserve to go back to successful career and try again, after all, you haven't exactly shown any passion for cooking.... and honestly all that silly attempts to earn a bit of money with the cards were huge failures weren't they?
I mean, sure you could try again, but if it doesn't work out you could try Only Fans?"

I'm not sure if there's any point continuing this discussion with all the hyperdefensive 'so whats'? and failure to engage with any points made. But I'll give it another try.

No-one said it was the most popular... just one of the most streamed shows.

But it wasn't. I posted a link above and it's not in NF's Top Ten. Do your own research if you prefer. It was successful but it simply wasn't 'one of the most streamed shows'.

You have no idea what would have happened from Suits,

Obviously it's hypothetical yes. But look at her costars from Suits. None of them have enjoyed any great success, and arguably they were more talented and had more name recognition (pre Harry) than Meghan. Of course we can't say for sure, but it doesn't seem likely Meghan would have gone on to great things in the acting world post Suits.

Maybe she thought she could make a go of her businesses? She's allowed to fail isn't she? Don't the majority of businesses fail?
So what if she doesn't get any more acting roles? Does that make her a failed actor?

Dear lord what's with all the questions!

My point, which you won't listen to as you're so desperate to defend Meghan, is that while she did better than the vast majority of actresses, she only had one real role. That doesn't make her a 'failed actor', just a minor actor like any number of others who would walk down the street without anyone having a clue who they are.

And an actress who can spend nearly 7 years down the road from Hollywood without showing any interest in her craft is probably not someone with any real dedication to the profession. I very much doubt she can just pick up her acting career at this point. But we'll see.

She had an acting career..... Just because you don't like her doesn't mean your ignorance makes your opinion true.

Ot do you think that actors only have a career if they're a "big time Hollywood movie star"?

Don't you think there's thousands of actors in the world working all the time? Isn't Steve McFadden a successful actor? He's never had a movie in Hollywood for example.

People came on saying she had no acting career. She clearly had.

People then attacked her failed businesses, as if every business succeeds.

Maybe she can't pick up her acting career z but that doesn't mean she isn't allowed to try or will automatically fail.

People are being awful about her for no reason, even suggesting she could do Only Fans as a backup 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

What's any of that got to do with me?

I'm not speaking for 'people'.

I'm speaking for myself.

I was musing on whether Guy Ritchie was being 'encouraged' to get M on board as a condition for season 3? HAM are still thick with the Netflix head honcho. I had never heard of this show and I have Netflix, I would definitely take a look if M appeared.

Suits was a big show, and Megan had a big part with plenty of storylines. It’s just inaccurate and really quite stupid to say otherwise simply because you didn’t watch it.

If you think about it, Meghan’s career is quite similar to Sophie Winkleman’s.

They’re both pretty women who are competent but mediocre actresses, both had bit parts and one standout role in a mediocre series that became a cult classic. Both were successful in their typecast roles (Meghan as the girl-next-door love interest, Sophie as the eccentric dim posho).

The difference is that Sophie only married a minor royal, so it didn’t open any doors for her. Meghan became infamous because of who she married and suddenly had Spotify and Netflix contracts launched at her because of her name and status rather than her talent. And, unsurprisingly, it didn’t exactly translate into a string of successful projects.

Her name and infamy will open (and seemingly close) doors for her, whether she’s deserving of them or not.

So if Meghan is genuinely deserving of major roles in TV and film based on her own experience talent, experience and track record, surely Sophie Winkleman should be too? 🤔

They can't be that 'thick' with him if he declined to extend their contract.

She reminds me of Brooklyn Beckham with her projects. The jam thing is the sort of rubbish he would do

It's disingenuous to say she had a career when she'd been in one show for a few years.
Career - an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.

So many people use the word career when they mean somebody had a job for a few years.

She had an acting job in a cable show for a few years.

As Leonidas said: "If."

There's a lot of bullshit being spouted here in order to put Meghan down that is implicitly sexist and not fair on other actresses.

I watched Suits from the beginning here in the UK when it was on Dave.
Some facts:

This was her breakout role but due to her age she would have most likely struggled for future roles : Meghan was 29 when she started in Suits. And 36 when she left. She might have struggled for future roles but not because of her age. Plenty of actresses don't get good, main cast member TV roles until their 30s and have been doing so since at least 2015. Just google it. And don't be ageist and sexist.

She was a competent actress, but her screen time was relatively limited.

Since you only watched a series and a half @EmpressSisi you can only talk about what you saw in those. She was always one of the main cast from the beginning, but certainly as the series went on, she got more and more screen time. Her storylines weren't just about her as a love interest, but as someone integral to the firm. Her father was introduced as a character. She had scenes in the office and increasingly much more outside. To say her screen time was relatively limited is just wrong.

It's disingenuous to say she had a career when she'd been in one show for a few years.

She was in Suits for 7 years. 7 years is not a few years @WeddingDressguest , and you repeating "a few years" at least 3 times does not make it so. . That is absolutely a TV career, and you're doing other actresses a disservice by saying this.

She was in various roles since 2002 to 2018

That's 16 years! Which I would say is definitely significant period of a 36 year olds life.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620783/

Sophie Winkelman has been working steadily in TV and some films (like Wonka) for well over a decade. She has had regular cast member roles - not recurring, but regular - in several series over the past 2 years, including Wild Cherry which was on the BBC and is now on Paramount +.

Very few actresses get that level of work. She may not have been the lead, or been in things you have seen, but that doesn't mean she's not been successful: she's been able to consistently earn a living as an actress on TV for many years.

She was number 6 on the call sheet and had a total of 138 minutes of screen time over 7 seasons (which averages out at approx 2 minutes of screen time per episode. She was not in every episode). She was not a main character at all, she was a supporting character and love interest. Don’t do her a disservice by rewriting history. She did very well to get where she did but she was hardly a startlet in her own right.

Also, 28 is a late age to gain fame in Hollywood. It is well known that she was worrying about what was going to happen after Suits finished, hence why she came networking in the UK. It was incredible luck for her to have been introduced to Harry, or else she would have been left schmoozing with the likes of Piers Morgan, Ashley Cole and Millie Macintosh like she originally was.

It’s not sexist or ageist to say that Hollywood IS sexist and ageist.

Also @EmpressSisi are you really categorically calling Peep Show “a mediocre show”??!!!

I didn’t particularly enjoy it but it wasn’t mediocre. There was a huge level of talent there both in front of and behind the screen.

@EmpressSisi she was a main cast member contractually - that is a fact. Obviously she wasn’t one of the two leads who got more screentime. But she got more screentime on average than at least one of the other main cast members.

28 is not late to gain fame in Hollywood and hasn’t been for the last decade.

Yes, I am. There’s a reason it’s considered a cult classic rather than a mainstream hit, and why it never pulled particularly high ratings. And I say that as a big Peep Show fan, I can still appreciate it while objectively recognising that it’s a mediocre show compared to other British tv shows and sitcoms.

Just because you don’t have an informed understanding of the TV industry doesn’t make me naive. Of course it’s sexist and ageist but that doesn’t mean that 29 is late to get a main tv role, it’s not. And over the last 15 years there’s been a huge increase in the roles for women.

And you have a very odd and wrong definition of “mediocre”. If you mean it didn’t pull in a huge vierwship, then that is quite different. “Mediocre” relates to quality. Peep Show was always critically acclaimed.

Meghan had roles for 16 years 🤷

Still not understanding why you all hate her so much. It’s like an obsession

There are many reasons, the thing that springs to mind first for me is that she’s so fake, trying to show a fairytale around herself, trying to make herself look so good, yet fails at every single thing she tries. However thia in itself isn’t that awful, what’s bad is that she’s a real villain, nasty girl. Takes takes takes, even from charities, friends, family. She’ll strike down anyone just to be mean or get something she wants / get revenge. She’s so entitled too, gorging herself on other people’s money… and a bully. She’s plain nasty and fake, and lies and lies to try to keep her nastiness under wraps