Meghan Markle spent years trying to reinvent herself after leaving royal life â but her latest move could bring her right back to where she started.
With Season 3 of “The Gentlemen” officially greenlit, the Duchess of Sussex remains in talks to join Guy Ritchie’s hit drama, People magazine reported, contradicting earlier reports that the potential deal had fallen through. No deal has been finalized, the outlet said.
“If she returns now, it raises the obvious question â what happened to all those other identities she tried on after leaving royal life?” Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s “Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered,” told Fox News Digital.
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“Podcaster, producer, lifestyle entrepreneur, philanthropist, media mogul,” said Schofield. “Returning to acting would suggest that the most viable professional identity Meghan has found may ultimately be the one she walked away from.”
The talks are in “very early stages,” Deadline previously reported. Its unclear how many episodes she would appear in. The series, which stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Giancarlo Esposito, is filmed in the U.K. and set in England.
Meghan has already dipped her toe back into acting. In 2025, she filmed a small cameo as herself in Amazon MGM Studios’ starring Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Jack Quaid and Henry Golding. The potential role in “The Gentlemen,” however, would mark a more significant return to scripted acting after leaving “Suits.”
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“The Gentlemen” follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who unexpectedly inherits his fathers title as Duke of Halstead and the familys sprawling estate after his father dies â only to discover that Halstead Manor sits atop a massive cannabis operation and that his reckless older brother has been passed over.
Doug Eldridge, founder of Achilles PR, told Fox News Digital that Meghan’s potential Hollywood comeback could expose the challenge that has followed her for years: finding an identity once the camera stops rolling that sticks.
“This has been the lingering problem for Meghan all these years: what is her identity?” he said. “She’s ridden a carousel of career horses. Yet for all the rotations, nothing has seemingly stuck.”
In a statement shared with The New York Times, a spokesperson for the Sussexes said, “On the heels of a wonderful trip with family and friends this summer, Harry and Meghan have decided to spend an extended period in the U.K. this autumn. They are excited to have their children spend more time in the country thats such an important part of their familys story.”
The spokesperson confirmed that the couple’s business operations will remain based in the U.S. Meghan and Harry will also keep their California home. People magazine reported that Meghan’s potential acting project contributed to the couple’s decision to return to Britain.
Schofield isn’t convinced that filmmakers will now embrace Meghan with open arms.
“I’m still skeptical that this represents some grand Hollywood comeback,” she said.
“Meghan has spent six years in [California] with a multimillion-dollar Netflix relationship, enormous name recognition and Tyler Perry on speed dial. If acting was genuinely her ambition, she was already standing in arguably the best place in the world to pursue it.”
