![]() Season three and four are already confirmed - along with a Queen Charlotte origin story spinoff - and The Hollywood Reporter spoke with the cast about what they think the future holds in the Bridgerton universe.Įach of the eight novels in Julia Quinn’s popular Bridgerton series is dedicated to one of the eight siblings. I just fell in love with it.At the end of its long-anticipated second season, fans were left hanging on the edge of their seats for what comes next in Shondaland’s Bridgerton. But all I cared about was being at the theatre. I hated the bangs – I’d have to sit at the back, I’d be crying for the bangs. And immediately, I was very young, but I wanted to play Gavroche. “The first show I went to see, I believe, was Les Misérables, and they were both in it at the same time playing Fantine and Éponine. Plus, both of his maternal aunts performed in the West End. If we go out and I get recognised, he’s like Stars in their Eyes, remember?”, while his mother is the chair of the Brighton & Hove Operatic Society. His father used to be a singer – “He was on Stars in their Eyes and won it in like, ‘95 or so. He grew up in Shoreham-on-Sea in Sussex, surrounded by performance. As soon as someone goes, you’re going to be half-naked on camera, it makes you reevaluate.” Will it actually ever happen?’ And then as soon as the second season came out, I just jumped in the gym. spent a year just saying to each other, ‘I can’t believe this is actually gonna happen. Has he been working hard at it? “Oh yeah, absolutely. ![]() I wear it as a gym T-shirt because I can’t possibly wear it in public”). At the start of season two, Colin returned from his gap yah, or as it was called in the Regency, the Grand Tour, with the requisite tan and silly goatee (“Nicola even got me a T-shirt, it says CHAPS CHAPS CHAPS on the back, and Colin’s Tour. And it felt really amazing to get that scene done, it had been really prepped for and really hyped up – and then suddenly it dawned on me, I was like, ‘Oh God, millions of people are going to watch this.’ It was a real sort of panic moment. “We’d just shot this scene,” Newton tells me (obviously he can’t tell me the context, because spoilers), “and it’s been, you know, quite intimate, it’s a closed set, we just had a few crew in the room. Which is lucky, because, this being Bridgerton, there are A LOT of intimate scenes to get to grips with for the leading couple. We feel really well supported by Shondaland and Netflix.” We started doing bi-weekly zooms where we checked in and any concerns or anything that had been put out online were brought up. They are, he says, “a real supportive bunch. With something that’s so global, you’re always inviting the opposite opinion, even if it’s just for attention.” ![]() We have our social media, but it’s kind of like, we put stuff out and don’t see the responses too much. “Also this cast in particular, a lot of us don’t engage. “It’s just talking about it when comments come up that hit a nerve, or just vocalising it, even in the makeup chair we kind of wash it away together and support each other,” he says. Newton acknowledges that as a white man, he’s more or less invisible to the show’s trolls, but says that the cast and production team functions as its own support network (“I’m aware that it’s so clichéd to say when you’re in a cast that we feel like a family, but we really do,” he says). Possibly due to the facials he’s been having on the recommendation of his Bridgerton co-star, Nicola Coughlan (whose skin, he agrees, is “like she’s a teenager”). Here, in this little dressing room at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, with his Dickies baseball cap wedged over his morning hair, the 30-year-old Newton looks as guileless and fresh-faced as he did when he played Elder Price in The Book of Mormon straight out of drama school, which is to say, very. I mean probably smouldering on screen as season three is being kept carefully under wraps. He has gone from nice-looking boy (season one) to gap-yah-tanned chap-of-the-world (season two) to, now, and – sitting in front of me in a faded Mickey Mouse t-shirt that doesn’t quite hide his gym-honed bulk – ripped and smouldering leading man (season three, coming later this year, we think).
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