From Suits to besties! Meghan Markle sparked an instant bond with executive producer Silver Tree after joining the legal drama — and their friendship has stood the test of time.
The Flight Attendant director, 45, appeared in the first episode of Harry & Meghan, which premiered on Netflix on Thursday, December 8, as she recalled going to work with the Duchess of Sussex, 41, in 2016 after news broke about her romance with Prince Harry.
“[Photographers] started coming out to get eyes on her, and there were people trying to buy call sheets from production assistants on our show so they could find out when she was shooting,” Tree recalled in the first episode of the Netflix doc. “They’d get these really long lenses and, like, hide on hills so they could get a view of her. There were people breaking into the area where the trailers are and trying to get pictures of her coming in and out of her trailer. It started feeling a little bit dangerous for her.”
She continued: “I don’t think anyone knew how to manage that new normal. I mean, I was terrified somebody was just going to be in her trailer waiting for her. At a certain point, we had to cage in all the trailers and that was really challenging, logistically, because she was on a TV show, and her nature is never to make things more difficult for anyone. I don’t think anyone knew how to manage that new normal.”
Meghan and the Duke of Sussex, 38, secretly began dating in July 2016, flying back and forth between Toronto (where Suits was filmed) and the duke’s home base in London. After several months together, the twosome were “so petrified” of taking their romance public.
“H tried to prepare me for what that might be like, knowing what he’d experienced in the past,” the Bench author admitted in the first episode, using her initial nickname for her husband.
Shortly before news broke in October 2016 about the couple’s relationship, they wanted to enjoy their last bit of privacy while it lasted.
“[Harry] said, ‘Well, if it’s gonna come out tomorrow, let’s go and have fun tonight!’” Meghan said in Harry & Meghan, noting they decided to go to a local Halloween bash together with his cousin Princess Eugenie and her now-husband, Jack Brooksbank. “And we were like, ‘Well, this might be our last shot to just go out and have fun in the world.’”
The BetterUp CIO and the When Sparks Fly actress — who share son Archie, 3, and daughter Lilibet, 18 months — got engaged nearly one year before their royal wedding in May 2018.
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The California native is a TV writer, director and producer, who is best known for helming episodes of Dead to Me, You and The Flight Attendant. She has also been tapped to executive produce 2023’s upcoming reboot series of Fatal Attraction. Courtesy of Silver Tree/Instagram
The Archewell cofounder was cast as ambitious paralegal Rachel Zane on Suits ahead of its pilot, which premiered in 2011. Tree, for her part, served as an executive producer on the USA Network hit for all seasons. Courtesy of Silver Tree/Instagram
“She is one of my very nearest and dearest. Like all her friends I love her madly,” the director wrote via Instagram in March 2021. “She is the friend who insists on always hearing the details of your life, your day, your kids life, your kids day, before hers. Always before hers.” She added: “On her wedding day she checks in on me the morning of. It’s her day, the world is standing by, it’s a lot — but she wants the day to be special for me. ‘You’ve come such a long way,’ she says. ‘Are you jet lagged?’ she says. ‘I made you a playlist to listen to while you get ready’ she says. … She’s the friend who shares her all of her secrets with you, because despite having so many reasons to put walls up her heart remains as wide open as it always has been.” Courtesy of Silver Tree/Instagram
Tree recalled in Harry & Meghan that Suits crew members needed to “cage in” the cast’s trailers during Meghan’s final season because of heightened security threats about her romance. (Meghan left the series at the end of season 7 amid the couple's royal romance.) “I was terrified somebody was just going to be in her trailer waiting for her,” she recalled. Netflix
Tree and husband Abraham Levy, who attended Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding together, share son Foxton and daughter Solaris. Courtesy of Silver Tree/Instagram
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