Meghan Markle releases delayed fourth episode of Archetypes podcast

Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast has resumed on Spotify today after a four-week hiatus following the Queen’s death.

The Duchess of Sussex explores the stereotype of the ‘Dragon Lady’ in her latest episode this morning with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho.

The Duchess began by talking about her experience growing up in Los Angeles, which was “full of culture that you could see, feel, hear and taste on a daily basis” and said she had a “real love” for getting to know other cultures. .

She shared that as a teenager she went to a Korean spa with her mother, adding: “It’s a very humbling experience for a girl going through puberty because you go into a room with women from nine to maybe 90, all naked.” walking around and waiting to take a body scrub on one of these tables all lined up. All I wanted was a bathing suit.

“After I got over that adolescent shame, my mom and I would go upstairs, sit in a room and drink a steaming bowl of the tastiest noodles.”

The Duchess criticized the Austin Powers and Kill Bill films for presenting “caricatures of women of Asian descent so often overly sexualized or aggressive.”

Meghan said she was not aware of the stigmas faced by women of Asian descent until many years later. “The Dragon Lady, the East Asian temptress whose mysterious foreign allure is described as both seductive and deadly,” she told Cho.

“This has seeped into a lot of our entertainment. But this toxic stereotyping of women of Asian descent doesn’t end once the credits roll.”

Revealed: Meghan Markle hires fact-checker for her Spotify podcast series Archetypes

By Richard Eden for the Daily Mail

Meghan Markle has hired a fact-checker for her highly anticipated Spotify podcast series Archetypes.

Her poise and passion for a camera or microphone is undoubtedly unparalleled in royal history. But these gifts have not blinded the Duchess of Sussex to the fact that she, like the rest of humanity, is fallible.

Richard Eden of the Daily Mail can reveal that Meghan has been using a fact-checker for Archetypes, which will resume today, having been suspended immediately after the Queen’s death.

Meghan has chosen not your average recruit, but a young and very talented American writer, Nicole Pasulka, whose interests are closely related to hers.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex greet American singer Pharrell Williams at the European premiere of Disney’s The Lion King

“I write about criminal justice, activism, race, music, business, queer culture and gender,” Pasulka warns visitors to her website, stating that she is “currently writing a book.”

Her book was even published this summer – titled: How You Get Famous.

In order for the uninitiated leap to the conclusion that it is a fictionalized account of an attractive, mixed-race, American actress who is brought to international attention by marrying the youngest son of a king, they need to think again.

Rather, it is “a deep dive into New York’s underground drag scene,” and has been hailed as “an engaging book that will appeal to both gender scholars and anyone interested in queer culture.” There is currently no suggestion that Pasulka’s role will go beyond the podcast.

A fact-checker could cut through the confusion that has occasionally — and sadly — followed some of Meghan’s statements. For example, in an interview with American magazine The Cut, she recalled a conversation with a South African cast member of The Lion King during the film’s 2019 London premiere.

That’s too bad. A fact-checker could cut through the confusion that has occasionally — and sadly — followed some of Meghan’s statements.

For example, in an interview with US magazine The Cut, she recalled talking to a South African cast member of The Lion King during the film’s 2019 London premiere.

“He said, ‘I just want you to know, when you got married into this family, we were just as happy on the street as when Mandela was released from prison,’ Meghan recalls.

Yet Dr. John Kani, the only South African cast member, pointed out that he never met Meghan and was not at the premiere. Of course, as the late Queen memorably put it on another occasion, “memories can differ.”