While Meghan Markle personally disliked Rachel's Logan-kissing storyline, her social media experiences with people who shared the opinion were rough enough for her to start blocking particularly nasty commenters. As such, she urged both supportive and antagonistic fans to remember that the actor and the role are separate entities.
"It's important to remind people that we are not our characters," Markle said in the interview. "People start to take it all very personally! It's a show — and the characters are great and layered and multi-faceted, but they are not real people. It's like, everyone, just relax — I'm glad you enjoy it, but let's just have a moment to reflect on the fact that it's fake."
At the end of the day, Markle's negative fan experiences while making "Suits" were probably small potatoes compared to the media attention and backlash she's faced due to becoming the Duchess of Sussex. Still, since Markle's return to acting after leaving the royal family is unlikely, at least she can avoid negative fan attention from people who confuse the actions of a fictional character with her own.
