Spitting Image Has Released New Sketches That Brutally Mock Meghan Markle in the Most Recent Wave of Satirical Turmoil. This Time, the Skits Focus on Her Early Acting Difficulties and the Parts She Formerly Battled Valiantly To Land.

The Duchess of Sussex’s acting career has been mocked in new skits depicting Meghan shared by satirical TV programme Spitting Image.

The clips, posted by the show’s producers on YouTube and TikTok, have her puppet performing various audition scenes for iconic roles such as Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle character in 1976 movie Taxi Driver.

She is seen introducing herself for the camera as ‘Meghan Sussex’ and also delivering versions of famous lines from films such as Jaws and Taken.

The spoof comes after it was revealed former TV series Suits star Meghan was returning to acting after an eight-year hiatus to be in the Amazon MGM Studios film Close Personal Friends.

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Lines performed by the Spitting Image version include a Taxi Driver take-off in which she starts to replicate De Niro’s ‘You talking to me?’ soliloquy – but newly adds: ‘Not without securing an exclusive deal with my publicist.’

In a twist on a line from Jaws, ‘We’re going to need a bigger boat’, the Meghan puppet – wielding a fishing rod – instead says: ‘We’re going to need a bigger house.’

And the version of a phone threat by Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson in 2008 action movie Taken has Meghan’s character declaring: ‘What I do have is a very particular set of skills – skills I have acquired over a very long period of career.’

She then hesitates over what these skills might be, eventually adding: ‘Just give me a sec. Writing stuff on bananas?’

The Duchess of Sussex is portrayed in puppet form in new Spitting Image clips referring to the former Suits star’s previous career in – and recent return to – acting

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, seen at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in July 2024, have both been parodied in the revamp of the satirical puppet show Spitting Image

The puppet is also shown telling her husband: ‘I swear to God, Harry – ruin my take again and I will end you.’

The real-life Meghan was spotted filming in Pasadena, California, earlier this month – with insiders telling how she was ‘genuinely excited’ but joked she felt ‘a bit rusty’.

She is set to appear alongside Lily Collins, Brie Larson and Jack Quaid – son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid – as well as British actor Henry Golding.

Meghan starred as Rachel Zane in legal drama Suits from 2011 to 2018 before quitting Hollywood when she married Prince Harry to briefly become a working royal.

The couple announced in 2020 they were stepping back from frontline royal duties and moving to the US, where they now live in the Californian town of Montecito.

Her last acting role had been in low budget TV movie Dater’s Handbook for the Hallmark Channel in 2016.

Meghan, 44, last month made a surprise appearance at Paris Fashion Week on her first trip to Europe since the 2023 Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Germany.

She was seen at a show for luxury fashion line Balenciaga, mingling with fellow guests including Vogue’s global editorial director Anna Wintour, actress Anne Hathaway and film director Baz Luhrmann, with whom she exchanged a kiss.

The new spoofs shows the Meghan puppet recreating a phone call scene from 2008 film Taken

Her Instagram page later shared a clip showing her travelling along the Seine, with her feet lifted up and legs crossed while sitting in the car – shared to her 4.2million followers on Instagram overnight.

That prompted some criticism since the journey was close to the Paris tunnel where her husband Prince Harry’s mother Princess Diana died in a car crash in August 1997.

The Duchess also took to Instagram this past Saturday to share a brief clip of herself assembling gifts as she continues to tout her As Ever Christmas range, which includes a $64 (£48) candle, champagne and a mulled spice kit.

In the short video filmed of Meghan dressed in a sleek silk brown dress, she was seen popping a present into a grey stocking which hung from her mantlepiece, before clasping her hands together and smiling.