Meghan Markle's Camp Reportedly Feels Netflix Used Her to Hype "The Gentlemen" Season 2

All those headlines this summer about Meghan Markle joining“The Gentlemen”may have been doing more work than anyone realized. According to Page Six, Markle never received a formal offer for the Guy Ritchie series and had just one conversation with the casting director. Now a friend of the Duchess tells the Telegraph that her camp feels Netflix used the casting rumors to draw attention to Season 2, which the network reportedly knew was weaker than the first. Netflix’s scripted chief Manda Levin added fuel with a cryptic“All bets are off”comment at the Edinburgh TV Festival, and Deadline reported over the summer that Markle, 45, was in talks for Season 3.

Here’s the twist: sources say Guy Ritchie himself initiated the interest in casting her, so there was genuine curiosity behind the chatter, just no actual deal. One friend of Markle described the whole thing as the oldest marketing trick in the book, where a big name reads a script and suddenly the internet hears they’re“in conversation.”Neither Netflix nor Markle’s reps responded to Page Six’s request for comment, which means the rumor mill gets to keep on spinning.

So the big question: was this a clever promotional play or just Hollywood gossip getting way ahead of reality? And more importantly, would you have watched her in it? Drop your take in the comments below.