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Q. As a child, did you ever wish you could go on more conventional trips like you friends?
A. You know, this is all I knew. Just like being an only child was all I knew. I was always aware of how unique and cool it was that my mom got to take me to all these cool places because of her job and connections. It was so much fun traveling, primarily with my mom. I never felt envious of the more cookie cutter-type of vacations, although I’m sure those would have been wonderful, too. But my mom never wanted me to just go to a resort and not leave the property, and think that was all there was to visiting a foreign country. We liked going to Oaxaca, Mexico, and tried to really get an authentic cultural experience.

Q. What has traveling taught you?
A. It really shapes you from a young age and makes you really empathetic of people of whatever culture, wherever they’re from. It made me much more courageous to take myself out of a sheltered bubble. I moved to Argentina at 21 and worked for the U.S. Embassy. And then I went to Madrid. My dad’s a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I’d end up in show business in some capacity, eventually. But when I was young, I knew I wanted to try something else. So it was wonderful to be in the foreign services and live in Buenos Aires. I think that kind of life experience can only help in your performance as an actor.

Q. What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from your travels?
A. That you should just go! It doesn’t have to be a fancy or expensive trip. Some of the best trips of my life, I’ve paid for in pennies. When I was a student at Northwestern University, people were doing the quintessentially spring break to Cabo San Lucas. I backpacked with a friend through France and then went to Italy. We nickeled and dimed it, because we wanted to see the world. You gain new friends everywhere. Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Be sure to check out Meghan’s entire interview with The Star Online over at ECENTRAL.MY

American actress Meghan Markle is grateful for her role on legal drama Suits because it is her most high-profile piece of work and a good ol’ fashioned episodic series.

“As an actor, that sounds awful,” says Markle, 31, when asked if she would consider a role on serialised shows such as Lost, as opposed to an episodic drama such as Suits.

She has certainly put in the time, having 10 years of acting under her belt. She started with being in an episode of soap drama General Hospital in 2002 and going on to bit parts in movies such as A Lot Like Love (2005) where she played a “hot girl”.

She says: “The best thing is having job security, right? To be able to know that you’re gonna go back to work the next week. For me, working on something such as Suits is exactly that. I know that I can go back and play.

“I’ve spent lots of years waiting for the right show, and now that I have it, I’m really glad that I can’t get killed off,” she says in a phone interview from Hong Kong recently.

Now in its second season in the United States, Suits sees Markle playing smart and sassy paralegal Rachel Zane, who has unfulfilled dreams of becoming a lawyer.

Rachel is the love interest of Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who is brought into a prestigious law firm, even though he never went to law school, by sharp litigator Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht).

“I’ve worked for many years before that and played a lot of great characters. One I loved was Amy Jessup, a junior FBI agent, on Fringe. While it was really fun to kick down doors and have all this gun training, I was happy to trade that in for how savvy Rachel Zane is – and her Manolo Blahnik shoes.

“It’s a big transition but playing her has been a huge game-changer for me in my career and I’m so grateful.” Suits, she says, has opened “a very big door for me”.

She adds: “It’s given me a level of recognisability I didn’t have before this. Patrick Adams and I were in a pilot together for a different network about five years ago and it didn’t get past. Now, to be able to get options for my hiatus is a huge change from hoping you get a job.”

Check out the stunning 14 page spread of Meghan in the latest issue of REGARD Magazine!

Don’t forget to read the interview as well where Meghan touches on subjects like the upcoming new episodes of SUITS, some of her favorite restaurants and her fans!

View the full issue at ISSUU.COM

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- Magazines / Publications > 2012 – Regard Magazine Issue 17 (December)

It’s a new season of USA Network’s polished television drama, Suits and as we saw in the season premiere, things between Rachel Zane and Mike Ross aren’t getting any less complicated anytime soon. “Love is never easy,” says Meghan Markle, the L.A.-born beauty who portrays Pearson Hardman’s savviest paralegal. “Mike Ross brings out her vulnerable side. As we saw in season one, her Achilles heel has always been her inability to test well. She had been so jaded in a way by all these hot shots that come to the firm and have this bravado, and she always assumed that Mike was the same sort of guy. I think in watching the development of their relationship, you really get to see that she has a soft spot for him.” Though the show presents itself as a legal drama, the focus is far more grounded in the relationships of the characters than in the cases in their litigation bags. “Part of the appeal is in watching the push and pull and trying to see if the characters can make it work. For me certainly as an actor half the fun is waiting to see how it’ll all play out.” You know a show is bitingly witty when even the actors are dying to know what happens next. “When I get the script and I call my other cast mates, we all have this communal ‘oh my god, did you read that?!’ moment. I’d fan girl over the show even if I wasn’t on it. I just think it’s so much fun and I’m so proud to be a part of it.” So what’s on the horizon for Rachel and the other formidable minds over at Pearson Hardman? “I would love for Rachel to become a lawyer. Not only would she become a great role model if that happened, but I think it would really shift the dynamic at the firm. It’s all up to the writers. What I can promise is that there will be a lot of fun in store.” Catch Suits Thursdays at 10/9c on USA.

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Check out what Meghan had to say to Gippsland Times when discussing acting and politics.

Did you ever fear Suits might be a one-trick pony due to its fake-lawyer concept?
The success of our show has come in the fact that it is so character based. In a way, being in a law firm is circumstantial; what you’re really invested in is these relationships, and the stakes are high. Our creator, Aaron Korsh, had originally written this show as something that had to do with the stockmarket. The network that produces our show said, ”We need something more episodic; the stock market is not something people perhaps want to view every week. So if you can take these same characters that we find so interesting and compelling and put them in the context of a show that people will tune in for every week, we’re golden.” It’s never going to be a one-trick pony because it’s always going to be about all of our different personality types and what that brings to each episode.

Did you always want to be an actress?
Born and raised in LA, I grew up on set. My father was a lighting director for about 40 years. I actually grew up on the set of Married … with Children, every day after school for 10 years. So I actually found a lot of comfort in being on a TV set, be it on camera or off. I never thought I would become an actress. I always wanted to get into politics and I moved to Argentina and worked for the US embassy for a bit. It sort of happened upon me when I was home for the holiday – acting, that is – and I stuck with it.

Is your dad proud you’re an actress, or does he wish you were a politician?
I think my dad always saw how happy I was on set. I think in many ways those were my formative years. As a little Catholic schoolgirl in my uniform to show up on the set of Married … with Children every day after school, seeing these women barely clothed, and there I am in craft services making sandwiches and having all the adults say, ”Meg, why don’t you go sit in the booth for a little bit and not see what’s happening here.’ It’s funny: it was a show that I wasn’t allowed to watch at home but I was there for the filming of. So whether it was in the capacity of becoming a producer or a writer or something behind the scenes, which is where I saw my future, he loved my passion for being involved and acting.

You were a golden-briefcase girl on Deal or No Deal.
By the time Suits had come around I had been acting for maybe six years. Deal or No Deal - I like to call it my very lucrative waitressing job. Most actors find a way to make a living while they’re auditioning and, for me, holding a briefcase was an incredibly lucrative means of being able to pursue what I really wanted to do. I’m not a model by any stretch, so I was just fortunate enough to be able to pay my bills – and then some – by standing in uncomfortable shoes and smiling really big for an exceptionally long time.

And now you’re living out of a suitcase?
Seven months out of the year. We are actually filming in Toronto, which cheats quite well for New York. What I don’t think most people understand is some of these really compelling moments that seem so tender, or even when you are seemingly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on set, it is 4 o’clock in the morning and we are just over-caffeinating and trying to make it all seem as believable as possible. It’s really long hours, maybe 16-hour days, but that’s a high-class problem that I feel fortunate to have – champagne problems.

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