Bridgerton star Golda Rosheuvel has hinted there will be tough lessons ahead for her character Queen Charlotte in season four of the Netflix period drama. During an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, Rosheuvel was asked what Charlotte’s journey would teach the character about herself in the upcoming season, to which she replied: “That showing Charlotte’s vulnerability is a powerful thing because she learns from it very quickly.”
While Rosheuvel didn’t elaborate further, fans already know that part of her storyline this season involves friction with Adjoa Andoh’s Lady Danbury.
“There’s a little bit of an upset with our best mate, Lady Danbury,” Rosheuvel previously told Radio Times.
“She comes into the season thinking that she has a lovely new toy in Whistledown, that they’re going to be best mates and she’s going to be able to control the gossip. And then she’s wrong-footed by Danbury asking to leave.”
Rosheuvel told Digital Spy. “I think there’s a desperation for her to entertain herself [in the marriage matches]. A desperation to not interact with real life because real life is her best friend leaving her. Real life is her husband not being very well. So I think she immerses herself in this other stuff to separate herself from her real life.”
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Andoh also shed light on her character’s movements this season, sharing with Radio Times that Lady Danbury “wants to know all of who she is”, and hinting that she wants to “know more about her Sierra Leonean roots”.
Elsewhere, the new season promises a will-they-won’t-they romance between Luke Thompson’s bachelor Benedict Bridgerton and Yerin Ha’s maid Sophie Baek.
Taking inspiration from the classic Cinderella story, Benedict and Sophie will meet at his mother’s masquerade ball. As per the trailer, Sophie will mistakenly leave behind one glove behind, setting the second-eldest Bridgerton sibling off on a mission to locate its owner as he attempts to unmask her identity.
Despite being rooted in the classic fairytale, Ha insisted to InStyle that the series charts its own path after the ball.
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“For me, the Cinderella bit was actually mainly the masquerade bit and him [Benedict] trying to find her [Sophie]. But then, after that, it veers off into a completely different story.”
Of their developing the chemistry for their fairytale love story, Thompson told Town and Country: “I had an intuition that we were just going to discover it as we went along, that we weren’t going to try and force anything, and that we weren’t going to really work hard at somehow making chemistry happen. We were just like, ‘Okay, let’s go on this adventure together’.”
Bridgerton season 4 part one will air on Thursday 29 January with part 2 debuting on Thursday 26 February. Seasons 1-3 are streaming on Netflix, along with Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.
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