Awesome Sex Education Actress Simone Ashley is the new protagonist of the city, which has the successful Netflix program announced.
The period soap with erotic charge – based on the best-selling series of novels by Julia Quinn, created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Queen “Scandal” Shonda Rhimes – is located in the competitive world of the regency of London, fashion and style, from the 1880s.
The first season of the mix of “Gossip Girl” and Jane Austen of Shondaland revolved around the socialist virgin Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor, 25) and her smoke lover with the sophisticated Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page, 31). ).
For the second season, based on the second entry of Quinn, her book series, “The Viscount Who Loved Me,” the sweet Daphne will have to share the prominence of Princess Kate and Duchess Meghan, as the new episodes will focus on the marriage persecutions of Daphne the Great. Bridgerton, brother: Anthony (Jonathan Bailey, 32).
Ashley, 25, will take on the lead role of Anthony’s romantic interest: Kate Sharma, a new London transplant from India, who is described as a smart “young hoodie who doesn’t suffer from fools” – Anthony included, according to an ad on Shondaland TV’s Twitter.
Season 2 of “Bridgerton” will also find that the show’s producers continue to break casting conventions on Broadway’s “Hamilton” line.
Ashley’s Kate, originally christened Kate Sheffield in Quinn’s second novel, and her family are of Indian descent in the continuation of the reimagined multiracial world of old-school high society created in season 1, which included several important black characters, including the Duke (Page), Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) and Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) do not appear in the original book series, Deadline reported for the first time.
In addition to her role as Olivia Hanan on Netflix’s acclaimed “Sex Education”, British actress Ashley was also recently seen in the UK’s ITV mystery drama “The Sister”. It is reportedly one of the cool faces being cast in “Bridgerton,” which is the most-watched series in the streaming giant’s history with 82 million homes tuned in during the first four weeks of the first season.
“We have a lot of new characters to introduce,” Van Dusen, creator and showrunner revealed during an interview on “Today with Hoda & Jenna” on Janurary. “Anthony will have a love interest next season, and I think it will be as broad and moving and as beautiful as the first season viewers have expected from the show.”
The plot twist of season 2 was also mocked in the final minutes of the end of season 1, when Anthony declared his goal of “quickly finding and declaring my intentions to my new viscountess,” after the implosion of his illicit relationship with the proudly baffled opera singer Siena. (Sabrina Bartlett).
However, Van Dusen stressed during the interview that he also expects Page and Dynevor to repeat their roles.
Note: Eshley’s previous experience in “Sex Education” may be helpful. The first season of “Bridgerton” featured nude love scenes so steamy that they were infamously ripped off for hardcore porn sites, which disrupted Page and Dynevor.