The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s flagship project, the Netflix docuseries Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have recorded over the past year and which promised to match their explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in impact, may be hanging by a thread. According to the US media Page sixI “disagree” with the production staff of the reality because the couple wants to make “meaningful cuts” from already shot scenes.
“Enrique and Meghan have doubts about their own story, about their own project,” a source from Netflix told the media. A few weeks ago the couple were rumored to want to change the content after Elizabeth II’s death last month, as the docuseries were expected to include malicious statements about King Charles III and Queen Camila, as well as Prince William of Wales and Kate. Middleton.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in the Jaguar Land Rover Driving Challenge during the Invictus Games in The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Another internal source of the giant of streaming Netflix, which hasn’t offered an official version at the moment, assured Page six that if the couple’s intentions to cut the content were to come true, the project would be “shelved indefinitely”. Netflix would support the team of directors hired by the Sussexes, who want to preserve the content they are recording around the world under the direction of the Nominated for an Oscar Liz Garbus.
The project was due to see the light shortly after the premiere of the acclaimed series. The crown on November 9, but the couple would also like to postpone the launch of their production to 2023. The docuserie is produced by Archewell, the NGO created by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their step back as members of the British royal family. .
Reconciliation
After months away, this content cut could indicate a rapprochement of positions before the coronation
Sussex’s multimillion-dollar deals with platforms like Netflix or Spotify were the couple’s salvation when they arrived in the United States with a lot of status but little liquidity in the midst of the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis, as Markle acknowledged in an interview with Winfrey.
After many months of separation between the Sussex and the rest of the Windsors, Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee and her recent funeral marked the resumption of relations. And now it seems that the Sussexes, after visiting the UK and on the eve of a coronation, don’t want to bring out their colors after making harsh accusations of racism and abandonment of a Markle with recognized mental health problems.
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If this project with Netflix ended up failing, it would join another project that Markle would have done with the streaming giant and which in the end was not completed. Netflix has already canceled the animation project Pearlannounced in 2021 and led by the Duchess of Sussex, as a measure to cut costs due to the loss of subscribers that the platform suffered a few months ago.
