Even though Markle knew she was always interested in theater and acting, there was something holding her back from the idea of pursuing this as a career. Because the truth was, growing up in LA, almost everybody goes into acting, and it can be seen as something of a cliché!
So Markle kept her passion for theater but wanted to study something more academic as well. This would foreshadow her future in more ways than one. She kept on doing both and she did her best at both: Academics as well as Theatre.