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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 4 april 2018

Altar-bound Meghan Markle to leave TV show with a wedding

By MARK KENNEDY of similarly. It just happens."
AP Entertainment Writer Korsh said he was thankfully
NEW YORK (AP) — Real life given enough warning that
will imitate art this spring at Markle's real-life romance
the USA series "Suits" when might trigger changes in
series regular Meghan Mar- her character's plotline and
kle bids farewell to the legal he didn't have to scramble
drama in a wedding — and to undo anything.
then goes off to marry her "When you start a show,
prince in real life. they definitely don't tell you
Show creator and show run- to anticipate that one of
ner Aaron Korsh has written your actors is going to mar-
an on-screen wedding for ry a prince. That's just not
Markle's paralegal-turned- in the handbook," he said.
lawyer Rachel Zane, who "But a lot of time, these
will finally exchange vows things kind of force you to
during the April 25 season open up the box and get
seven finale with her long- creative and invite new
time love Mike Ross, played characters into your world
by Patrick Adams. The two and explore them."
have been lovebirds for One new character who
years and had one pre- joins in season eight will
vious wedding date col- be Katherine Heigl, a vet- In this file image released by USA Network, Meghan Markle appears in a scene from "Suits."
lapse. eran of "Grey's Anatomy" Associated Press
Both actors will then exit and "State of Affairs." She'll
the show, which starts film- star alongside regulars Rick
ing season eight this month. Hoffman, Gabriel Macht fuel a lot of fire for a lot of humor and just the weight which is very satisfying."
The wedding will be a sort and Sarah Rafferty. Dule Hill the characters in the show that they bring onto set will "The good thing is if they
of dress rehearsal for Mar- will also become a series and there's going to be a be sorely missed. It'll be a didn't ride off into the sun-
kle's real one to Prince Har- regular. There's also a "Suits" lot of conflict going on," new space. It'll be a new set together, we would
ry at Britain's Windsor Castle spinoff planned starring he said. Macht said it was rhythm that we'll all have to have to break them up
on May 19. Gina Torres, a former series a bittersweet time for the find," he said. "That brings and we didn't want to do
"I think we had to do this," regular. show with the arrival of a opportunity for us but it also that," he said. "That was
said Korsch. "It's something Macht, who plays Har- film star to the cast but also brings a sense of loss." one fortuitous thing that
that we owed and had to vey Specter on the show, the loss of Markle and Ad- Korsh said at least he could happened with them both
do. Obviously, I'm so happy has already texted and ams, two actors from the give the long-engaged leaving at the same time:
for Meghan in her personal emailed Heigl to welcome core ensemble. couple a happily-ever- We got to give them a hap-
life and that it landed sort her. "I think she's going to "Their intelligence and their after "in a climactic way, py ending."q
Kristen Bell narrates cuddly IMAX documentary 'Pandas'

By LINDSEY BAHR astounding." do they feel like they weigh
AP Film Writer "Pandas," from David Doug- ("about 300 pounds") and
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Any- las and Drew Fellman ("Born what do they smell like
one who has seen Kristen to Be Wild" and "Island of ("sweet grass and milk")?
Bell break down in (happy) Lemurs: Madagascar"), An avid watcher of nature
hysterics over a sloth knows takes audiences to the documentaries, Bell said
the actress' affinity for ani- Chengdu Research Base that she and her young
mals, especially those of of Giant Panda Breeding daughters Lincoln and
the cute and cuddly vari- in China where scientists Delta particularly love Da-
ety. So when the people are working toward a goal vid Attenborough and the
behind the new IMAX origi- of releasing captive-born "Planet Earth" series. The
nal film "Pandas" asked pandas into the wild, where girls saw an early cut of
"The Good Place" star if she only about 2,000 remaining "Pandas" and "loved it,"
would consider narrating pandas live. which makes Bell all the
the documentary, it was a The film, out Friday, focuses more excited for additional
no-brainer. in on one, Qian Qian (pro- This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows giant pan- kids and families to experi-
"I'm not un-secretive about nounced Chen Chen), from das in a scene from the IMAX documentary "Pandas." ence "Pandas," too.
the fact that I'm an ani- cub stage to her supervised Associated Press "It's inspiring the next crop
mal lover, or an IMAX lover release in the wild and the travels to New Hampshire help supervise Qian Qian's of biologists and conserva-
to be totally honest with humans trying to make that to observe how a man transition from city panda tionists," she said.
you," Bell said. "I think they happen. Hou Rong, the di- named Ben Kilham has for to country panda. She thinks the film will con-
produce some of the best rector of research at Panda 20 years been successfully Bell, who got involved later nect beyond animal die-
content out there and I Base since 1994, has raised raising orphaned black in the process, didn't get hards, too.
take my kids to the science over 200 baby pandas dur- bear cubs for eventual re- to meet the pandas but "It makes you feel good,"
center every time there's a ing her tenure and hopes lease in the wild. At Kilham's hopes that one day she will. Bell said. "It's inspiring, it's
new IMAX movie. that one day their work will suggestion, Panda Base But that didn't stop her from beautiful, it's adorable, it's
I just think the patience help pandas thrive outside hires American conserva- peppering the scientists like educational and personal-
with which they produce of captivity. tion biologist Jake Owens, Owens with questions, like ly I think currently the world
particularly their animal In an inspiring display of whom Douglas calls "the In- how much do they weigh could use more things that
documentaries is kind of cross-cultural solidarity, she diana Jones of biologists" to ("150 pounds"), how much feel good, you know?"q