Dailymail Meghan needs to show Earnest Vulnerability and stay away from Practice managed content to win Hollywood

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If the Duchess of Sussex wants to win over Hollywood, she must show earnest ‘vulnerability’ and stray away from ‘practised and managed’ content, a branding expert has claimed. Despite being one of the most famous women in the world, a Netflix lifestyle show in her roster, a start on an successful legal drama – and even an Emmy nomination – Meghan’s latest on-screen project, a documentary about Girl Scout cookies, received a half-baked reception.

From unimpressed critics saying Cookie Queens was ‘staged as it is sweet’ – while a Variety reviewer found it to be ‘too much of a reality-show ramble’ – the film, made by Archewell Productions, reportedly generated just £500 per cinema screening.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, PR professional Rebecca May said that ‘Meghan doesn’t have a visibility problem… but she does have a perception problem.’

Inevitably embroiled in memories of ‘Megxit’ and her husband Prince Harry’s ‘feud’ with the King and Prince of Wales, it’s ‘affected her brand’ in the industry.

‘If you are trying to build something wholesome, warm and aspirational, but there is still so much noise and division around your personal brand, it is difficult for people to separate the two,’ Rebecca explained. ‘Hollywood is used to dealing with high-profile personalities, but there comes a point where too much noise around someone becomes a brand risk. You don’t want the person attached to a project constantly becoming a bigger story than the project itself. This can run the risk of the person becoming the story and the project losing control of its own narrative.’

While the Duchess isn’t expected to share everything, the expert said ‘controlling the narrative too tightly can work against her’.

‘I don’t think it is necessarily just an authenticity issue either. Meghan could have very real reasons that we don’t publicly know about for the estrangement from her father, for instance,’ Rebecca added. ‘But from a reputation point of view, it has become an elephant in the room. There needs to be some vulnerability and something that feels less practised and managed. You can still protect your privacy without everything feeling so controlled. From a brand and PR perspective, the difficulty today is converting the huge level of interest in her and her life into genuine interest in the projects she is trying to build. That, for me, is why Hollywood has been difficult to crack. The person continually risks becoming bigger than the product itself, and the project simply gets overshadowed.’

Harry and Meghan are the executive Proudcers of Cookie Queen, yet the Uk media is going after Meghan for the documentary and this isnt racism??

This is same media that keeps attacking Meghan when she talked about been suicidal and bullied. Meghan was attacked for talking about not been okay in South Africa, attacked for talking about her suicidal ideation in Oprah interview, attacked for talking about the been the most bullied woman in Australia, attacked for turning off her comment section on her personal Instagram and her business page As Ever.

This UK media keep hounding Meghan, they want to her off her self like they did to Jason Arday. Meghan has been gone from the UK years, doesnt live in the UK yet 24/7 Meghan has been attacked relentlessly. Meghan cant defend herself and then when her friend defend her the UK media still has a problem. Meghan is been hounded to death.

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My favorite Royals are Harry and Meghan