After a lot of tension building between them in the first four episodes, Benedict (Luke Thompson<\/a>) and Sophie (Yerin Ha<\/a>) shared an intimate moment in the most unlikely of places: on the servant’s staircase in Bridgerton house.<\/p>\n As Ha, 28, tells PEOPLE, there’s symbolism to the scene. “It is upstairs, downstairs, and they meet in the middle, and it’s like, what does that represent? And what story are we trying to say in that moment exactly?”<\/p>\n Season 4, which has been dubbed a Cinderella story<\/a>, tackles socioeconomic class for the first time in the Netflix series, as Sophie’s status as a maid makes her an ineligible partner for Benedict in high society.<\/p>\n The significance of Sophie and Benedict meeting in the middle of the staircase symbolizes the two very different worlds they’re traversing \u2014 and all of the possible complications that a relationship between them would involve.<\/p>\n Liam Daniel\/Netflix<\/p>\n Filming the steamy moment was “quite seamless,” Ha says, thanks to both the show’s “incredible intimacy coordinator, Lizzie Talbot,” and, of course, Thompson.<\/p>\n “When you have trust with a great scene partner like Luke, it always just comes together quite naturally,” the Australian newcomer says of her costar, 37.<\/p>\n Liam Daniel\/Netflix<\/p>\n Ha reveals that she and Thompson were originally supposed to film the staircase hookup earlier on in production, but it had to be moved. “What was so funny was, actually, that scene was supposed to be shot a while back, but then I got the flu, so we had to reschedule it,” she says.<\/p>\n “But you know what? It’s funny, because those Bridgerton steamy, sex scenes \u2014 or whatever you want to call them \u2014 they don’t feel like they’re there just for the sake of it,” she continues.<\/p>\n “They’re actually an extension of the storytelling, and it is quite poetic and they’re there for an actual purpose. I do think Bridgerton does the sex scene so well … from a female gaze.”<\/p>\n![\"Yerin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9a556b4d80d7b65c090700c14d22cf63.jpeg\"\/)
Yerin Ha as Sophie Beckett, Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton in “Bridgerton” season 4 <\/p>\n![\"Yerin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/de59aed735d0080b617f3b2089d28315.jpeg\"\/)
Yerin Ha as Sophie Baek in ‘Bridgerton’ <\/p>\n
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Yerin Ha as Sophie Baek, Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton in “Bridgerton” season 4 <\/p>\n