Two actors are about to step intoMeghan MarkleandPrince Harry‘s royal shoes!
Lifetime has announced the casting forHarry & Meghan: Becoming Royal,a sequel to last year’s surprise hitHarry & Meghan: A Royal Romance.Charlie Field and Tiffany Marie Smith will portray the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in the next chapter of their lives.
Field is a rising red-headed actor whose credits include the National Geographic seriesGenius, while Smith has appeared in small roles onJane the VirginandSupernatural.
According to a press release, the movie will examine the newlyweds’ love story, “pulling back the curtain to reveal the untold joys and challenges of life inside the royal family during their pivotal first years of marriage.”
Filming is set to begin later this month in Vancouver, and the movie will premiere this spring.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty
During the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in L.A. on Sunday, A+E president of programming Rob Sharenow told reporters that Murray Fraser and Parisa Fitz-Henley, who portrayed the royal couple in Lifetime’s original film last year, won’t be reprising their roles for the sequel.
“Unfortunately our original royal couple, Murray [Fraser] and Parisa [Fitz-Henley] are not available. So more news to come on who will take their crowns,” Sharenow said, according toThe Wrap.
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source: people.com
