{"id":129302,"date":"2025-11-11T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129302\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:19:08","slug":"meghan-markle-a-bit-rusty-but-excited-as-she-films-new-movie-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129302\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle \u2018a bit rusty\u2019 but excited as she films new movie role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">It was previously revealed the role in Close Personal Friends, which stars Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid and Henry Golding, was Meghan\u2019s first attempt to explore returning to her previous career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">An insider told The Sun newspaper: \u201cThis is a massive moment for Meghan and signifies a return to doing what she truly loves. She has been swamped with offers but this one felt right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt is Meghan\u2019s way of gently putting her toe back in the water and seeing how she enjoys being back on set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEveryone involved is super-excited and has been sworn to secrecy about her involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">Before joining the British royal family, the actor \u2013 then known as Meghan Markle \u2013 landed roles in the likes of Horrible Bosses, Anti-Social, CSI: NY, 90210, Knight Rider and Castle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">She hasn\u2019t acted since wrapping her final scene for Suits in 2017, which aired the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">During a joint engagement interview with Harry in 2017, Meghan, who wed the prince in 2018 and went on to have children Prince Archie, 6, and 4-year-old Princess Lilibet with him, opened up about her decision to move to Britain and leave her acting career behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">She told BBC presenter Mishal Husain at the time: \u201cI don\u2019t see it as giving anything up, I just see it as a change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s a new chapter. Right. And also keep in mind I\u2019ve been working on my show for seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"UYVxLGUpqoLIsFLR\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo we\u2019re very very fortunate to be able to have that sort of longevity on a series and for me, once we hit the 100-episode marker I thought, you know what, I have ticked this box and I feel really proud of the work I\u2019ve done there and now it\u2019s time to, as you said, work as a team with [Harry].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was previously revealed the role in Close Personal Friends, which stars Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[13790,5813,806,16098,3013,430,26526,156,22771,434,89504,49610,23493,435,117,111,139,69,1527,205,89503,20863,56683],"class_list":["post-129302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-a","tag-acting","tag-as","tag-bit","tag-but","tag-celebrities","tag-duchess","tag-entertainment","tag-excited","tag-films","tag-joked","tag-markle","tag-meghan","tag-movie","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-return","tag-role","tag-rusty","tag-she","tag-sussex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}