Parisa fitz-henley and meghan markle

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On Nov. 27, , Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their engagement and that same day, it was announced that an original movie based on their love story would be .

Did you ever see her at auditions? We probably were going out for the same things, but right around the time she was gaining some traction in her work, I went to school and then I joined a community development project in the Caribbean. I was out of acting completely for a while. So I think we were like two ships passing in the night.

Both of us are really adamant about treating these people as people and not playing titles or job descriptions. Murray is somebody who believes — and I share this belief — that we are all humans having very similar experiences underneath the circumstances of our lives.

ET recently spoke with Parisa Fitz-Henley, the year-old actress portraying Meghan in the film, where she opened up about what fans can expect from the movie, and .

We wanted to look at them as whole beings. So we had these conversations about that and really about supporting each other. We had lunch together right after the chemistry read and had a really easy, great, deep conversation right away and that just stuck throughout the production. The production was very, very fast. And so it required a lot of work.

It was just nice that once in a while when there was time, we would take a walk and mull over what was coming.