Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix series Harry & Meghan is giving the couple an opportunity to tell their story. One body language expert slammed the docuseries for coming off as an overly dramatic rom-com, however.
Body language expert Judi James said the Harry & Meghan documentary kicks off with dramatic flair. She told The Sun, “Harry’s selfie diary clip makes him look like a survivor or witness to some disaster.”
James continued, “His body language suggests he’s in deep shock, so much so that he can’t remember the day of the week.”
She noted, “His breathing suggests stress, his verbal fillers of ‘Um…’ signal confusion. He rolls his eyes and performs a tongue-poke which all suggest adrenaline caused by stress.”
James added, “As the piano trills loudly he says ‘What happened?’ like a survivor crawling out of a wreck.”
Similarly, James said, Meghan’s video diary leans toward drama. “Meghan’s diary is equally dramatic. Her hair is in a towel as though just washed and her left leg is bent and raised as though she was painting her toenails,” the expert explained.
Meghan picks at her nails and seems unable to find the words in the moment, even pausing for a significant amount of time. “She can barely speak apart from some sighs and pauses, like an actor that has dried on stage,” James said.
James also analyzed the couple’s retelling of their early days of meeting and dating, likening it to a rom-com. Harry and Meghan shared the story about how they met in 2016 with Meghan saying she was “intent on being single, traveling with friends, and acting at the time.
“I had a career, I had my life, I had my path,” Meghan says. “And then came H. Talk about a plot twist.”
James pointed out, “Their love story narrative sounds like a rom-com in the making, apart from the odd appearances of Harry being interviewed to camera growing increasingly angry, agitated and upset.”
The expert added, “Harry moves from man in love to man full of anger and resentment for the press, with his tearful body language undergoing a complete, linear mood change.”
