On Wednesday’s episode ofThe View, the Oscar-winning actress questioned what Markle, 41, recently revealed during herArchetypespodcast. In the episode that aired Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex — then an aspiring actress — shared her experience as a “briefcase girl” on the NBC show, telling guestParis Hiltonshe felt “objectified.” Markle said she eventually left the show because of these feelings.
Markle’s thoughts didn’t resonate with Goldberg, 66. “On that show, you basically had a suitcase and they wanted to know: ‘Is this the deal you want, or is this not the deal you want?'” theSister Actactress said to her co-hosts.
“I don’t know that the people who are sitting there are thinking about you like that,” continued Goldberg. “They’re thinking,I want the money.”
Goldberg noted, “[Wheel of Fortunehostess]Vanna Whiteis always in something interesting and beautiful, and she’s been doing this. The objectification might be coming from you and how you felt about how these women were being portrayed, and that’s what you have to change — because we’re performers. When you’re a performer, you take the gig.”
Whoopi Goldberg Criticizes Meghan Markle for Feeling ‘Objectified’ on Deal or No Deal.Jamie McCarthy/Getty , Chris Jackson/Getty
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On this week’s podcast, Markle reflected on being grateful to have a job to pay her bills as she auditioned for acting roles, while also conflicted about how it stacked up against her previous professional experience.
“I had also studied international relations in college, and there were times I was on set atDeal or No Dealand thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina in Buenos Aires and being in the motorcade with the security of treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain,” she said. “Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite.”
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“I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach knowing that I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage,” Markle continued. “I didn’t like being forced to be all looks and little substance, and that’s how it felt for me at the time — being reduced to this specific archetype.”
source: people.com
