Meghan Markle Hints Netflix Documentary Is Not How She and Prince Harry ‘Would Have Told’ Their Story: ‘We’re Trusting’ Someone Else
usmagazine.comA new perspective. Meghan Markle opened up about the process of creating her upcoming Netflix documentary with husband Prince Harry, hinting that it wasn’t exactly what the pair expected.The Duchess of Sussex, 41, spoke with Variety about collaborating with director Liz Garbus — who’s known for award-winning documentaries such as The Farm: Angola, USA and What Happened, Miss Simone? — in her cover story published on Wednesday, October 19. “It’s nice to be able to trust someone with our story — a seasoned director whose work I’ve long admired — even if it means it may not be the way we would have told it,” Meghan explained. “But that’s not why we’re telling it.”The Deal or No Deal alum continued: “We’re trusting our story to someone else, and that means it will go through their lens.”Meghan noted that it was “interesting” to team up with Harry, 38, on the project from their company, Archewell Productions. “My husband has never worked in this industry before,” she told the outlet. “For me, having worked on Suits, it’s so amazing to be around so much creative energy and to see how people work together and share their own points of view.
That’s been really fun.”The couple, who tied the knot in May 2018, signed a multiyear deal with Netflix in September 2020 to create original content — from children’s shows to docuseries — for the streaming giant.
At the time, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that the Sussexes were offered nearly $100 million for the deal.“Our lives, both independent of each other, and as a couple have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience and the need for connection,” Harry and Meghan noted in a statement announcing the venture. “Through our work with diverse
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