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Brooke Shields Calls Meghan Markle ‘Too Precious’ and Details Interrupting Her at 2024 SXSW Panel

She said on India Hicks’s podcast that Markle’s earnest account of early feminist activism risked losing the audience’s interest.

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Overview

  • On India Hicks’s podcast, Shields said she interrupted Meghan Markle’s detailed response to a gender equality question at SXSW because she feared the audience would lose interest in such a “precious” account.
  • She joked that at age 11 she was playing a prostitute in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby, a quip that drew laughter and lightened the panel’s mood.
  • At the March 2024 International Women’s Day discussion led by Katie Couric, Markle described how her letter to Procter & Gamble at age 11 over a sexist Ivory soap slogan ignited her lifelong advocacy for gender equality.
  • Markle also recounted enduring intense social media bullying during her pregnancies and praised her husband Prince Harry as a “hands-on” father whose support helped her navigate new motherhood.
  • In comments to The Times, Shields warned that post-#MeToo caution risks censoring artistic work and defended her early film roles as culturally significant despite evolving sensitivities.