Meghan Markle’s Reported The Gentlemen Role Is Already in Doubt

This story got messy fast.

On Friday, Deadline reported that Meghan Markle had held preliminary talks about joining a possible third season of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. Netflix has since officially renewed The Gentlemen for Season 3, but no role has been identified for Markle and the conversations were still being described as early.

Reuters later confirmed the same basic picture, noting that The Hollywood Reporter described the talks as more advanced while Deadline treated them as hypothetical before a third season was officially announced.

Then came the reversal.

The Hollywood Reporter published a follow-up citing Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, who said the proposed casting had been “withdrawn” after backlash in the UK. THR said Markle’s representative, WME and Netflix had not provided confirmation, while Brown stood by her account.

That means the safest description right now is not that Markle was hired and then fired. There was never an announced deal in the first place.

The reporting is also unusually contradictory. ITV News went further than the Hollywood trades, reporting that Markle had been offered a role and that the opportunity helped push forward Harry and Meghan’s planned move back to the UK.

So, within roughly a day, one version of the story had Markle in talks, another had her offered the job, and another said the casting had already been pulled.

None of those versions has been confirmed publicly by Netflix, Guy Ritchie or Markle.

There is one part of The Gentlemen story that is official: Season 2 launched on Netflix on September 3, 2026, and Netflix has confirmed a third season with Guy Ritchie returning to direct. Netflix’s own announcement also confirms Theo James and Kaya Scodelario are back as Eddie Horniman and Susie Glass, alongside returning cast members including Ray Winstone, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones and Giancarlo Esposito.

Markle has also already dipped back into acting. Variety reported in November 2025 that she filmed a small cameo as herself in the Amazon MGM comedy Close Personal Friends, so a Gentlemen role would not technically have been her first scripted appearance since Suits. It would, however, have marked a much bigger return to acting.

For now, Markle’s involvement in The Gentlemen should be treated as unresolved.

Season 3 is now officially ordered, but no character has been announced, and nobody directly involved has publicly confirmed that a deal was ever completed.