The amazing “Sex Education” actress, Simone Ashley, is the new main lady of the city, as the Netflix show had has announced.
Erotic-laden vintage soap – based on Julia Quinn’s best-selling series of novels, created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by “Scandal” queen Shonda Rhimes – is set in the competitive world of Regency London, in stylish style, 1880.
The first season of Shondaland’s “Gossip Girl” and Jane Austen revolved around socialist virgin Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor, 25) and her love story with the spirit of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page, 31).
For Season 2 – based on Quinn’s second entry, her book series, “The Viscount Who Loved Me” – Sweet Daphne will have to share the spotlight on Princess Kate and Duchess Meghan, as the new episodes will focus on conjugal searches of the eldest Daphne Brother Bridgerton: Anthony (Jonathan Bailey, 32).
Ashley, 25, will take on the lead role of Anthony’s romantic interest: Kate Sharma, a fresh London transplant from India, who is described as an intelligent young woman, “a goat who does not suffer fools” – Anthony included, according to an announcement on Twitter Shondaland TV.
Season 2 of “Bridgerton” will also find the show’s producers continuing to violate 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 a sequel to the reimagined, multiracial world of old-school society created in season 1, which included several Major black characters, including the Duke (Page), Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh) and Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) who do not appear in the original book series, Deadline first reported.
In addition to her role as Olivia Hanan in Netflix’s acclaimed “Sex Education,” British actress Ashley was also recently seen in the British ITV mystery drama “The Sister.” It seems to be one of the most fresh faces distributed in “Bridgerton”, which is the most watched series in the history of the streaming giant, with 82 million households granted in the first four weeks of season 1.
“We have a lot of new characters that we’re going to introduce,” Van Dusen, creator and showrunner, said in an interview with Janurary’s “Today with Hoda & Jenna.”. “Anthony will have a love interest next season and I think he will be as comprehensive and moving and as beautiful as the spectators in the first season of the show have been waiting for.”
The twist of the Season 2 plot was also teased in the final minutes of the Season 1 finale, when Anthony declared his goal to “find and promptly declare my intentions to my new Viscountess” after the implosion of his illicit relationship with pride. Siena opera singer. (Sabrina Bartlett).
However, Van Dusen stressed during the interview that he hopes and that Page and Dynevor will resume their roles.
Note: Ashley’s previous “Sex Education” experience may be helpful. Season 1 of “Bridgerton” featured nude love scenes so passionate that they were ripped off for hardcore porn sites – to the despair of Page and Dynevor.