Meghan Markle compared her and Prince Harry’s deal with Netflix to Barack and Michelle Obama’s contract with their production company, Higher Ground.
“My husband and I were in an overall deal with Netflix then, not dissimilar to Higher Ground and the Obamas’ deal, once that had come to its term, the extension of it — which was such an incredible sign of the strength of our partnership — was now being in a first-look deal,” the Duchess of Sussex said at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, DC, Tuesday.
“Which is also exciting because it gives us flexibility to go to our partners first, then at the same time, shop content that might not be the right fit for Netflix but has a home somewhere else,” she added.
In 2020, Markle and the Duke of Sussex signed a $100 million, mult