What Meghan Markle's Co-Stars Have Said About Her

"Wizards of Waverly Place" star Gregg Sulkin got to know Meghan Markle when they co-starred in the 2015 crime drama "Anti-Social." Sulkin's character is a street artist who gets involved in his brother's criminal schemes. Markle plays his girlfriend, a glamorous model who is no fan of her beau's shady bro. On "Fair Game with Kristine Leahy" in 2019, Sulkin — who is British — shared his excitement that his American co-star had secured a spot in his country's history books. He also said that he saw some regal qualities in Markle while working with her. "Everybody does know her as a princess, but in real life, she genuinely is also like a princess," Sulkin explained. "She is one of the classiest, the nicest, one of the most sincere and genuine people I've ever met."

In an interview with "Access," Sulkin was supposed to be promoting his movie "A Cinderella Story: A Christmas Wish" when he lavished Markle with praise once again. "If there's one person I would want to represent our country, it would be her," he gushed. Of course, Markle's Cinderella story didn't have your usual happy ending with the heroine remaining in the kingdom her prince came from, so she's not exactly repping Sulkin's country anymore. But no one can ever take away Sulkin telling Vanity Fair, "Out of all the actresses I've worked with in 12 years, I think [Meghan is] my favorite." And that's better than any silly old tiara, right?

Actor Wendell Pierce, who played the father of Meghan Markle's character on "Suits," was happy to share his fond memories of working with his co-star after her engagement to Prince Harry was announced. On the talk show "Harry," Pierce said that Markle used to speak about her royal beau in code when she was trying to keep their relationship on the down low. He also shared what he told Markle ahead of her exit from the show. "I said, 'I know your life is going to change, but always know, no matter where you are, I will always be your loving fake father,'" he recalled.

But after Markle made another big change by initiating Sussexit and explaining why she and Harry were leaving royal life to Oprah Winfrey, Pierce wasn't feeling quite so fatherly. In a 2021 interview with the U.K. radio station LBC, he appeared to lash out at the Sussexes, criticizing them for airing their grievances with the royal family amid a global pandemic. "In the midst of so much death, I think it is insignificant," he said.

Pierce later walked back his criticism when he saw that the Daily Mail was using his interview to attack Markle, accusing the outlet of twisting his words. He also referenced Markle's revelations that she'd struggled with suicidal thoughts. "In no way am I insensitive to suicide," he tweeted in part. "... As I told Meghan, I support her and wish her all the best."

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In a 2018 interview with ET, Abigail Spencer revealed that she and Meghan Markle share more than a close friendship; they also have the exact same birthday. While the two actors appeared on "Suits" together, Spencer said that she and Markle first connected when they were auditioning for a different project years earlier. "She was just so stunning and there was just something about her," Spencer recalled. 

After The Times published its 2021 report about the bullying accusations a palace adviser made against Markle, Spencer defended her friend's character in a lengthy Instagram post. Referencing a time when they reconnected after not seeing each other for a while, Spencer recalled how effortlessly Markle integrated herself into Spencer's new group of friends, who were instantly charmed by her warmth and attentiveness. Of their own friendship, Spencer wrote, "She's been there for me — and physically held me — in my darkest hours: After my dad died. After a gut-wrenching breakup, she brought me into her home & nursed me back to health."

Spencer also appeared in the Netflix docuseries "Harry & Meghan." She reminisced about the moment Markle informed her that she was dating Prince Harry, which took place at Bergdorf Goodman as they sipped on champagne. "It was very clear from the moment that she told me about him that they were in love and that they were gonna go to the ends of the earth to be together," Spencer recalled.

Working royals aren't too dissimilar from actors; part of their job is performing for the cameras that capture their every facial expression and gesture. So, it pays to possess the ability to look affable even when you don't feel like smiling and making small talk with your adoring fans. It also couldn't hurt to memorize some innocuous scripted conversations to have in your golden carriage as you wait for your coronation to begin, just in case Sky News consults with a lipreader. But as an actual actor, Meghan Markle didn't just have to smile and look engaged during public engagements; she also had to be believably vicious, seductive, vulnerable — you get the picture.

For her role as a photographer in the 2012 movie "Dysfunctional Friends," Markle had to be domineering while directing a male model played by "The Boys" actor Christian Keyes. When he dared to question her character's artistic vision, she delivered the line, "That's why you're not paid to think" (via The Hollywood Reporter). Markle also slapped Keyes at one point. "[Meghan] said, 'I might improv an extra smack,' and I was like, 'smack away!'" he recalled to People in 2018. "I knew she was going to put a little hand on it. She had some torque and rotation in the wrist." 

But when she wasn't smacking him around on set, Keyes said that Markle was a pleasure to be around. "She was super cool and approachable," he revealed. "She was a class act."

After Meghan Markle found her prince, her "Suits" co-star Patrick J. Adams assumed the role of her white knight. When Markle was accused of bullying palace staffers, Adams defended his friend in a series of since-deleted tweets. "It sickened me to read the endless racist, slanderous, clickbaiting vitriol spewed in her direction from all manner of media," one of his messages read. Adams also slammed Buckingham Palace for announcing that it would be investigating the bullying allegations, arguing that it was Markle who was a victim in the situation. "IMO, this newest chapter and it's timing is just another stunning example of the shamelessness of a institution that has outlived its relevance, is way overdrawn on credibility and apparently bankrupt of decency," he wrote.

In 2020, Adams told Radio Times (via People) that he hadn't called Markle since she married into the royal family. "Quite frankly, I think I'm intimidated," he confessed. "I don't know what I would say." But if he can ever muster up the courage to break the ice with someone he worked with for seven years, he'd happily do so again. In a 2022 interview with Extra, Adams said that he's totally up for collaborating with Markle on one of her Netflix projects. He also has a talented wife in "Pretty Little Liars" star Troian Bellisario, so she, too, could possibly benefit from Adams re-opening up those lines of communication with his former co-worker.

In his memoir "Spare," Prince Harry confessed that seeing some of Meghan Markle's love scenes in "Suits" made him rather uncomfortable. "It would take electric-shock therapy to get those images out of my head," he quipped. But as an actor, filming such scenes was just part of the job for Markle, and "Suits" wasn't the only project that required her to fake intimacy with a co-star. 

The steamy scenes Markle filmed in character as an ex-stripper didn't help the 2008 pilot for "The Apostles" get picked up by a network, but they gave her on-screen husband something to talk about when Markle married Harry. And we can't imagine that Harry was exactly happy about what he had to say.

In a 2018 interview with BBC Radio 5, actor Keith Robinson said that Harry is a fortunate man to be married to his on-screen wife in real life. Robinson praised Markle's work ethic and attitude — as well as her appearance. "It's not hard to kiss a beautiful woman, so I'm glad they casted a beautiful woman to play my wife," he confessed. Filming love scenes can be awkward, but Robinson thought that he and Markle vibed as co-stars. "She was very into it, very giving. It wasn't a hard sell for me at all," he said (via the Daily Mail). "We had some pretty intense scenes." If footage of that pilot exists out there somewhere, Harry might want to resist the temptation to watch it.

In the 2011 movie "Horrible Bosses," Meghan Markle plays a FedEx driver who catches the eye of Jason Sudeikis' character. He tells her that she's too attractive to be delivering boxes and asks her if she's really filming a prank show. (Spoiler alert: she's not, and this cringy attempt at flattery fails to impress Markle's character, who is just trying to do her job without getting hit on.) In a 2018 interview with ET, Sudeikis quipped that all it took was filming that scene to convince him that Markle would someday trade her FedEx cap for a crown. "She was regal in that moment, and it seemed like she's only gotten better at it," he said. While we're guessing that Markle's future didn't really flash before Sudeikis' eyes, she did make an impression on him. "She was very sweet," he recalled.

By 2020, Markle's star power had increased exponentially. It was so strong, in fact, that it powered the resurrection of a Comedy Central project that had been gathering dust for nearly a decade. It was titled "The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down," and her former castmates included "New Girl" actor Max Greenfield and "Happy Endings" star Adam Pally. "[Meghan] was very sweet and talented," Pally recalled in an interview with "Access Hollywood," going on to quip, "I think it was disappointing for her when she showed up and found out that I was her love interest and not the other male lead, Max Greenfield."

Meghan Markle only had a small role as a bartender in the 2010 drama "Remember Me," but "The Batman" actor Robert Pattinson remembered her many years later. For her scene in the movie, Markle makes Pattinson's character smirk when she denies his friend (Tate Ellington) a drink, much to his bewilderment. When E! News asked Pattinson to comment on Prince Harry and Markle's engagement in 2017, he said of the future duchess, "She seems great. I worked with her, as well. She's in 'Remember Me' — it's my claim to fame!" He was asked if he believed that his history with Meghan would score him a wedding invite, to which he laughingly replied, "Hopefully."

Pattinson didn't attend the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes' wedding, but the snub is not an indication that Markle didn't enjoy working with the "Twilight" star; quite the contrary, in fact. "Oh, he's such a sweetheart," Markle gushed to Her World in 2013. "... He's a really lovely guy and a really great example to be able to watch someone who is young, whose stardom has really taken over his life in such a huge way, and yet he's still gracious, humble, and cool. I think that is really endearing."

Interestingly, Pattinson was once considered for the role of Harry in a biopic titled "The Spare," according to OK! magazine. If this dream casting ever comes to fruition, we're sure the actor will have a lot more to say about his former co-star and her husband.