jeremy Zimmer, one of the most important Hollywood agents, he rails against Meghan Markle: «Apparently he hasn’t shown that he has a great talent audio, or any talent,” he said in an interview following the announcement of Spotify not to renew the Duchess podcast contract. Thus limiting it to a single season and withholding a large part of the fee ($ 18 million).
“Meghan Markle? She has no talent”
Zimmer knows his stuff. His United Talent Agency has for years been one of the most prestigious agencies in Hollywood and boasts clients such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Damien Lewis. In an interview given to the recent Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity in France he admitted that he was not surprised by the decision of Spotifyconcluding with a brutal comment: “Being famous doesn’t necessarily mean excelling at something.”
Meghan Markle snubbed by Taylor Swift
For Meghan it is yet another podcast attack Archetypes, which the Duchess is now desperately trying to resurrect on another platform. In fact, details also emerged about the characters, once friends, who then snubbed her invitations to participate in the project.
Among all the Obamas who, after the attacks made by the Sussexes on the Royal Family, have ceased all contact with the couple. AND Taylor Swift, who is much better friends with Prince William, not only refused the invitation right away (handwritten by Markle herself, an expert calligrapher), but she didn’t even bother to answer personally, instead passing the task on to one of her collaborators.
Harry and Meghan in New York, May 2023. (Getty Images)
The Sussexes are also about to lose their contract with Netflix?
Meanwhile, the British media report rumors of an upcoming announcement by Netflix which, after the documentaries focused on life at court of the Sussex and those on Invictus Games of Harry, did not produce anything else on the couple.
According to some rumours, streaming would have already decided to end their collaboration early, blocking a large part of the originally agreed compensation (over 100 million dollars for a contract that should be renewed in 2025). Too many, so far, the projects canceled in the bud. Like Markle’s animated series, Pearland Harry’s podcast, featuring interviews with the likes of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump about their childhood trauma.
Now Harry and Meghan want to produce a period drama
undaunted, Harry and Meghan would have been working on for months a feminist version adaptation of Big hopesfamous novel by Charles Dickens. The intention would be to make it just for Netflixbut the producers assigned to the Sussexes said they were disappointed by their way of working, their inexperience and the lack of commitment shown in the few projects launched in the last three years. «Great ideas, bad execution» they commented, rejecting every proposal. And increasingly shattering the Sussex media empire.
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