Though they played father and daughter on Fits for seven seasons, Wendell Pierce took it on himself to give Meghan Markle some fatherly guidance.
Pierce, 60, recalled a instant when he spoke to Markle, 42, about dating Prince Harry all through filming.
“I’m often reminded of the very last day operating with Meghan, which was the wedding ceremony scene prior to her engagement to the prince,” Pierce stated to E! News in the course of an job interview on Saturday, April 6. “I explained, ‘Meghan, your life is likely to be a whirlwind. You’re going to be in this bubble.’”
The actor needed to assure Markle that even though her everyday living was changing due to the fact of the romantic relationship she was in, she could constantly attain out to him and any of the other Suits cast users if she essential guidance.
He ongoing, adding that he instructed her, “’I just want you to bear in mind that no make any difference what transpires, you always have friends and I hope you count me in that selection.’ I’m so grateful that I was equipped to categorical that to her prior to the whirlwind engagement and [the] wedding ceremony and starting to be the duchess.”
When Markle, who played paralegal Rachel Zane on Fits, remaining the collection throughout the seventh season, Pierce, who appeared as her father, lawyer Robert Zane, stayed on for two much more just before the show ended in 2019.
Pierce confessed that keeping in touch with his onscreen daughter following she married Prince Harry in Could 2018 was hard, but now that the pair has stepped back again from the royal household and moved to California, he has been equipped to reunite with her.
“We were being at a general public perform together and she was obtaining an award,” Pierce noted. “It was good to see them for the reason that there’s this general public persona, and then it is the two that I know.”
Pierce has usually gushed about the Duchess of Sussex. In a March episode of Who’s Chatting to Chris Wallace?, the star opened up about how a great deal he admires her as an actress and a man or woman.
“She’s wonderful. She’s excellent as both of those. She’s the nicest man or woman at any time,” Pierce, expressed. “And I essentially, the a person thing that bothers me the most right now for Meghan is the truth that I know she would love to act yet again.”
While Markle has not stepped back again into any big Tv or motion picture roles given that leaving Hollywood, she did just trademark her way of life manufacturer American Riviera Orchard, which she is arranging to market a string of domestic products, such as cutlery, cookbooks and jarred foodstuff by way of.
