Meghan Markle will reportedly no longer be considered for casting in the third season of Guy Ritchie‘s Netflix series The Gentlemen.
The news comes just one day after it was announced she was being eyed for a role in the show, which hasn’t even been officially renewed for a third season yet.
A column published on Saturday on Substack by Tina Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, said the casting of Meghan “has been withdrawn” because the “backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward.”
“This does not bode well for Meghan’s acting comeback in the UK,” Brown wrote.
The role would have marked Meghan‘s most significant acting role since she left Suits in 2018.
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Season 2 of The Gentlemen is currently set to premiere on September 3 and while a third season has not been ordered yet, the fact there are reports looking ahead indicates that the series is going to have more seasons in the future.
Meghan and Harry also had a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix that expired last year, along with the streaming service ending its involvement in her lifestyle brand, As Ever, in March 2026.
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