It's common sense that when you're interviewed with a colleague, you take turns in a civilized
manner.
But not for our forever glorious Duchess of Sussex, who had a silent meltdown right in
front of Larry King.
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Now, you have seen me extract whole stories from just nine seconds of Harry and Meghan's
videos.
So you can imagine how much content you can get from almost half and hour with Larry King.
And this interview is a gold mine of body language just for moments like this:
- Everything that people need at the firm.
She also happens to be the love interest of Mike Ross.
- She's the woman behind the man.
Every time Mike needs anything She's the one that actually...
Ok, there's a little frustration in there with that jaw tension, looking away and pursing
her lips.
Notice that she also clenches her jaw when she looks away.
And this happens less than three minutes into the interview, so it's not like she was tired,
or bored.
Maybe it's the fact that Patrick J. Adams said the words, "She's the woman BEHIND the
man", and you might think that this line did not go well with...
Rachel.
But these kind of displays also happen when Meghan is giving her two cents:
- Someone or they want to know someone like they see on that show so I think that's what
brings people back and the New York of it all is pretty enticing.
There are a couple signals here.
There's a bit of arrogance, but there's nothing wrong with a little arrogance and bravado
here and there.
And she's a Leo, so it might come natural to her.
But most important is that lip pressing at the end.
When you're talking to someone and you see one or two of these kind of signals, if they
do not make more than five or ten percent of the conversation, then I suggest that you
pay attention to other, more obvious signals, that could be body posture, or their hand
gestures or the words they use.
There's also the fact that people could get nervous and begin twitching their eyebrows,
or pressing their lips just to release stress.
But Meghan is an actress, and she not only gets paid to command the muscles of her face...
well, she used to get paid to command the muscles of her face.
Now she just gets paid to command Harry.
My point is that she being an actress, it's much less likely for her to get nervous in
these kind of settings, and at the same time she's more aware of her facial expressions.
Now, just to be sure, let's discard the possibility that she didn't like Larry King, and we can
do that just by looking at how she posed for the camera with him.
You see?
absolutely normal.
Nothing that could make you feel uncomfortable, right?
But Meghan definitely was feeling uncomfortable every time her co-star spoke:
- They, I... it was the basic LA situation, I was auditioning for a long time and then
I got fired from the job a couple months the script went through, and...
- Fired?
I'm not going to put that in slow motion.
I'm a man of principles.
I'm going to give Meghan a free pass here because most probably she just had lettuce
between her teeth from lunch at a salad bar.
Yeah, you cannot unsee that now.
But the next clip...
If you need something to illustrate the term "restless" on the Cambridge dictionary, this
would be the best way to do it:
- But the tough part of this relationship is that she's working so hard on the show
to become a lawyer, so while we're falling in love on the show, she's also have to wrestle
with the fact that I got into this job, doing half the work that she's gonna have to do
to get to where she is, so that's a big part of this season.
I'd love to understand... what is the trigger of those looks, what makes Meghan suddendly
go into full "if looks could kill" mode and put that face like she's about to hit you
in the face with a stapler.
And there are many signals here that help you level up your body language skills.
First there's that deep breath that she's taking in, to calm herself.
That's why I've told you many times that you should take the time to spot breathing patterns
on people so you can decipher them in real time.
It's a great insight in emotions.
Immediately after that, she tenses her jaw, and has a blinking burst.
That's a very easy to spot signal that someone is trying to contain a strong emotion.
And in this case, in Meghan's case, it goes hand in hand with that deep breath that we
just saw.
Again, she turns away and you can see that the muscles of her jaw are tense.
Yet another signal of a strong emotion, so we are stacking them with the same meaning.
That she's really upset.
Then she tries to force a smile and fails, just to completely drop it a split second
later.
Now, if she did not feel uncomfortable with Larry King, the other option is that she did
not want to be sharing the interview with Adams.
Because, which other explanation could there be?
I'd be glad if you share your thoughts in the comments.
Besides, it's interesting to see this dynamic between Meghan and Patrick.
I haven't seen the show yet, but one of the recurring topics about the cast is how much
chemistry are there between them.
And it makes sense, because if you are a casting director and pick the actor and actress to
portray a fictional couple, you need THAT to work on screen.
It has to look believable.
Now, I watched this interview a couple times, and I don't know if it's just me, but... at
least for this moment, I did not catch that chemistry that people talk about.
And it could be that Meghan keeps looking nervous:
- And the writers, directors, let you ad lib?
- They do.
Which is great...
- Kind of strange, though...
- Yeah, I mean, not kind of strange, I mean...
- I think that it's based on trust, you know, when we are on set
There's an interesting question.
Why Meghan doesn't have this kind of displays with Harry?
I mean, besides the engagement interview, we haven't seen such a flourished display
of pacifying gestures and strange facial expressions.
And one very simple explanation is that Meghan doesn't like to share the narrative.
I understand that Patrick and her are good friends.
I don't know if it's still so, but back in this interview there were no reports of much
struggle working together.
So it's safe to think that it's not the proximity, or the presence of Patrick that upsets Meghan,
but the fact that they have to take turns, and in some way or another, interconnect each
other's remarks.
King makes a question, one of them responds, the other replies too, and so forth.
Basically it's sharing the interview.
What I guess is that Meghan's emotional displays happened because of that.
In fact, the second part of the interview is about questions that they have to answer
each one on their own, like "what was your first audition".
And I thought that Meghan's emotional displays could change...
But I was wrong:
- Ah, my first audition... oh wow, that's a great question.
I think so, yeah, it was in sleepless in Seattle...
Well, some things just... don't have an explanation.
But I'll keep doing analyses to make sense of them.
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