EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Markle plans to return to acting but will only work with A-list directors like Ava DuVernay in a 'breakout role' because current offers are too 'cheesy and beneath' former Suits actress

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 3, 2020 | Cheyenne Roundtree

[Morgana]

“If they ever remake “Plan 9 From Outer Space” Meghan just might be able to snag herself a role. She could play that woman who gets carried around.”

I was thinking more like “The Bride of Frankenstein” she could play the Bride!

[kalee]

Thanks! IIRC, Nick Nolte made a comment about her nose and fingernails getting all the best camera shots in The Prince of Tides.

[KavMan]

Hello, Meghan Markle

You're no Angelina Jolie

[sphinx]

Can she act? I dunno; I've never seen her in anything. But she's way too old to be looking for a breakout role. She should be looking to be a solid member of an ensemble cast, or for quality supporting actress roles. That could restart and grow a career if she finds the right vehicles. Her big problem is that she's not someone that anyone particularly wants to watch except for the celebrity freakshow crowd, and that audience leads straight into trash territory.

The perfect role for MM at this point? If only Downton Abbey was still live; perhaps there's a similar show in the wings. I'd cast her as a maid. Or maybe as a shop lady who has recurring interactions with the main cast. Or possibly even a schoolteacher, but no higher on the social scale. That would be the way to defuse the royalty thing with a touch of irony and humor. It would also be the kind of role for which she's probably naturally suited, which is always a good thing for struggling actors.

[Cecily]

You likely would not cast her because she is a poor actress - no talent, no star quality, no box office. You would also want to spare yourself from dealing with her dishonest and all around low and unpleasant character.

[sphinx]

When I see Meghan, I think about that 1959 film called “Imitation of Life” with Lana Turner, Sandra Dee and Susan Kohner.

Imitation of Life put in a recent guest appearance in the opening scene of Operation Finale, which is about the capture of Adolph Eichmann. Susan Kohner's son, Chris Weitz, directed Operation Finale. Using a clip from his mom's biggest picture was a nice tribute; the clip also fits thematically, so much so that it seemed like a bit of rather heavy handed, artificial staging until I learned about the family connection. When a director is tossing a bouquet to his mom from a film she did before he was born, I'm willing to overlook a bit of insider gameplaying.

Operation Finale begins with a prologue involving a blown Mossad operation in which the wrong Nazi was assassinated. (This is an important character point going forward.) Then the credits roll. The Susan Kohner scene appears immediately after the credits, as the main body of the film begins.

[lee martell]

That was very nice of him to honor his mother in that way.

[sphinx]

Imitation of Life was released in 1959. Operation Finale is set in 1960. In Operation Finale, Imitation of Life is playing in a theater in Buenos Aires with an English soundtrack and Spanish subtitles. Susan Kohner plays a young woman who is passing as white despite being considered black by the democrats of the time under the one drop rule. The clip shown is the moment when she is challenged by a boyfriend, who has heard rumors that her mother is black.

A group of boys in the theater starts snickering at the dialogue; one of them is Klaus Eichmann, son of Adolph, who is of course living in Buenos Aires under an assumed identity. An Argentine girl, Sylvia Hermann (played by Haley Lu Richardson) turns to shush them. Sylvia and Klaus are teenagers. Eyes meet. One thing leads to another, secrets will out, and in the end, Adolph gets hung, so all's well that ends well.

Sylvia was born in Argentina and raised a Catholic. She was aware that her father was a German émigré, but she did not know that her father was Jewish and had spent time in Dachau before emigrating in the 1930's. He got out before the war and decided to leave the old world behind. He raised his daughter as a Catholic and had not burdened her with past horrors. That changed when she brought home a young fellow whose name set off an alarm.

That makes three hidden identities entangled in the opening seconds of Operation Finale. It's a big heavy handed, but when a director is giving a nod to his mom for her greatest role almost 60 years earlier, I am not one to complain.

Ben Kingsley was superb as Eichmann. The rest of the cast is very good as well, but the Eichmann character dominates the movie.