I just started Bridgerton and learned that Yerin Ha is Australian and went to nida. Do you know anything about her through the grapevine? She seems very good from the little bit I've seen.
Yeah! She's a great actress, and has been on the rise here for a little while - she's excellent in the (very good) series, Troppo, and in the (unfortunately pretty bad) series, Bad Behaviour. I know a few people who worked with her on both and loved her, and the industry generally seems to be both excited and happy for her being cast in Bridgerton. She's going to be at the AACTAs festival this week (and I think presenting an award at the ceremony? We'll see, haha).
Okay, but can we please keep talking about how Colin Bridgerton got on his needs for Penelope? Bc I feel like this should be talked about until the end of time
I will gladly talk about that scene with you as much as you want. Because it was everything and more.
Colin couldn’t just sit across from her and tell Pen how he feels. No, no, no. He had to get on his knees in front of her, they could be eye level with each other and so he could be as close as he could be to her, to confess his feelings.
This man risked the chance of being rejected by her while on his knees, because he thought it was worth it.
Like I…… I’m sorry but I have to go have another breakdown about this now.
penelope has always been the production’s favourite. shonda has made no effort to hide as much. meanwhile kate and simone have been sidelined and disrespected every step of the way.
penelope has been a regular character for two whole seasons before her own, given her own arcs as well as storylines for her entire family (who have inexplicably been regulars too since s1 in spite of having little to offer to the story).
meanwhile kate, introduced in s2, wasn't even explored as a character in her own right during her season, never mind earlier on in the show. as for her family? while portia was getting her second season's worth of screen time and side plots, the FMC’s mother figure mary was just there to silently stand in the background for most of the story.
during kate and anthony's season, penelope was at the centre of all the promo, featuring in the EW photoshoot secured for the show instead of the main couple, getting a solo promotional poster when she was just a supporting character, even having her face on the thumbnail of the s2 teaser (meanwhile the official s2 trailer, with kate and anthony on the thumbnail, has been made private by netflix for two years now on youtube. make of that what you will.)
nicola also had the opportunity to do promo with her future co-lead back in s2. not the leading lady though! why give simone her time to shine when you can sell a love triangle instead?
as i said: all that for penelope in another couple’s season. before it was even her time to shine.
moving on to season 3 it's pretty obvious who's the sidekick and who's the main event (hint: it's not the one named bridgerton). while kate (supposedly the leading lady of s2 and future head of the titular family) was relegated to supporting character in her season, a love interest for the bridgerton male lead along with edwina, things aren't quite the same anymore. suddenly it's not the bridgerton brother this story is about– it's the “wallflower” waiting to “bloom” instead.
and of course you're not gonna make your star share her poster with another woman, are you? after all, her name’s not kate sharma.
it's all well and good to do that with kate but not with penelope. with her it seems that shondaland know what “leading lady” means.
just to recap: kate sharma is the only FMC in bridgerton who didn't have an official poster with her romantic lead and got no backstory over the span of “her” season. simone is the only leading lady in the bridgerton franchise who never got a photoshoot with her male co-lead or even did any promo with him as the leading couple.
penelope on the other hand is the only bridgerton character to get the star treatment for two seasons straight.
im gonna leave you with the two couples respective covers anon:
anthony’s story (not kate’s) for TVWLM but PENELOPE and colin’s story for RMB. just in case anyone had any doubts about who's getting preferential treatment around here. while every book has the respective bridgerton’s name in the subtitle (not the spouses) same rule doesn't apply to colin’s.
yeah the suggestion that sophie should be erased is deeply annoying to. like i need male centered white women who are fujos to step away from bridgerton and benophie. Sophie being a woman, a bastard woman, and navigating her gendered oppression because of her lower class is integral to benophie. if people want lgbtq representation they can go watch another show, or better yet, create original characters and go write fanfic if they want.
There is a place for LGBT+ rep in Bridgerton, there is even a place to turn a couple of the characters bi, but specifically gender swapping any of the main love interests/protagonists just would not work, and people need to be honest about that. However, they won’t be because they are just using the excuse of the show not being “diverse enough” to not support a Black woman playing Sophie Beckett.
The reality is that Bridgerton has tried to be more diverse than most shows, but they do not have to check every single box or else the show is not “progressive” enough. That’s not how it works.
It’s not “unprogressive” to keep the most oppressed woman due to her gender and class in the eight book series a woman. Again taking rep away from women(and marginalized women at that) to give to a (white) man that way you can see two (white) dudes fucking on screen does not make you “progressive.” Trying most surely does not make you a good ally(seriously where are you people when we are actually getting bad rep?).
Just because you see Black people in a period piece that’s highly popular, in a place where you feel we don’t “belong,” that doesn’t mean that we have to give up our space to fit you inside it.
(Mind you this is a place that we created because if Shonda hadn’t adapted these books added the diversity this series would’ve never done the numbers it has. Bridgerton is a sensation because of racial diversity that isn’t steeped in racism and race. It’s neither here nor there, but we constantly create our own, everyone wants to eat off our plates, and then leave us with scraps after they’ve had their fill).
This whole discourse is just incredibly bizarre, but the thing I find the most disturbing about it is the fact that even if you want to say Sophie should be a man, Benedict doesn’t like men.
I mean this literally should be a non-issue since he has shown 0 interest in men for two seasons and he’s had plenty of opportunities to fuck them if he wanted too.
Now if the show turns around and makes him bi this season(doubtful, but I’ll humor the weirdos) he still clearly likes women too so why Sophie should get the boot is beyond me, but not surprising considering the state of fandoms.
Silently off topic, but kinda related since it comes from the same place of using the lack of prominent LGBT+ rep to justify keeping a Black woman from being Sophie.
Which brings me people who think that Masali Baduza(suspected Sophie) can’t possibly be Sophie and instead insist that she’s either related to the Stirlings(the family Francesca marrys into) or that shes a gender bent Michael.
For issue #1 people claim that Masali and Victor Ali(the man who they suspect is John Stirling) “look alike” therefore she must be playing his sister. Victor Ali and Masali don’t look alike outside of both being dark skinned Black people(the people saying they do look hella suspect🙃).
And while Masali isn’t a household name she did have her own show(Noughts + Crosses) so she’s too big to just be playing someone’s sisters on Bridgerton. Not to mention the secrecy for a side character seems extremely unwarranted.
Now for issue #2, people are using a casting call(cause at least they know that it makes no sense for Masali to be a side character) that allegedly went out two years back to say she’s gender-bent Michael.
If you believe in the casting call(a similar one went out for Kate calling for a Indian actress when she was being cast so it is on brand) it says that the actress cast will be the lead for season four. Francesca’s story most surely isn’t going to be next up(skipping over both Eloise and Benedict? Be real) and it’s also another gendered issue to where if you make Michael into a woman you are changing up the story so much you might as well created an OC.
There is plenty of evidence that suggest Benedict’s season is next, Sophie has been cast, she’ll be in s3, and even if you don’t want to believe the casting call right now, that Masali is playing her, but instead of seeing what’s right in front of them people want to say that it just can’t be.
Overall I feel like people are doing a whole lot of talking and “advocating” for nothing cause they are butthurt that Sophie doesn’t look how they want her to look.
It’s still hurtful though to see that people would rather want Sophie to be a man and take away everything she stands for than see her being played by a Black woman, but again fandoms are unfortunately weird like that.
Let me end this by saying that while my rants my sound like I have gone crazy or am trying to start some bs, I have been suffering in silence since Bridgerton came out nearly three and a half years ago so this is me breaking my silence.
Again this isn’t really about erasing Sophie. It’s about keeping Sophie from being played by a Black woman which is fucking nuts considering that a Black woman is producing this crap.
First it was how Sophie couldn’t be non-white because it would be problematic. Then after Simone was cast as Kate it was how the show had no East Asian representation or Latina rep and had “too many Black people”(where are the Black people besides Lady Danbury and Will 🙃)so Sophie could be non-white, but she should not be Black.
Now that it truly seems like a Black girl it’s how Sophie should be a man cause the show has no LGBT+ rep.
And yeah everyone deserves rep, but the fact that people have continually said that their has been enough rep for Black people as a way to silence us and push their own representation at the expense of Black people is disgusting.
I can not reiterate this enough, the one thing this shitty ass fandom has been consistent in is saying that a Black woman shouldn’t play Sophie Beckett.
All I can say is that I hope Shonda has not listened to the people who keep yelling at her to give them representation at the expense of Black people while at the same time being fucking passive aggressive whiny little anti-Black bitches to her and all the Blackish actors on the show.
Send an ask with one or more numbers to request a Bridgerton fic! Some prompts are specifically inspired by season 3 of the Netflix series, but there's plenty of room to go wherever you'd like with them!
Ship
1) Penelope x Colin
2) Francesca x John Stirling
3) Cressida x Eloise
4) Kate x Anthony
5) Will x Alice
6) Violet x Marcus Anderson
7) Penelope x Lord Debling
8) Cressida x Lord Debling
9) Benedict x Tilley Arnold
10) [solo character] OR [other pairing] OR [OT3] OR [other character(s) specification] (please note it in your ask!)
Location
11) a ballroom
12) the Featherington gardens
13) the Modiste
14) the park
15) Will Mondrich's club
16) Queen Charlotte's palace
17) the art gallery
18) the Bridgerton drawing room
19) a carriage interior
20) Aubrey Hall
Item
21) a quill
22) a ring
23) a bumblebee
24) a fan
25) a candle
26) sheet music
27) a letter
28) a diary or journal
29) a hot air balloon
30) a teacup
Scandal
31) mentioned in Lady Whistledown's Society Papers!
32) made a disadvantageous match!
33) defied the Queen's wishes!
34) reputation as a rake!
35) caught unchaperoned!
36) seen holding hands! BARE hands!
37) broke off their engagement!
38) public drunkenness!
39) secret pregnancy!
40) danced too closely/too many times at a ball!
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You can go out for an evening with any character from Bridgerton, not romantically just for fun 😇 who would you choose??
Dearest Gentle Reader,
Please don't make me choose! I love them all 🥰
I have such a soft spot for Kate. I feel like she's the girlfriend who would come over with a bottle of wine and be ready to have a girls night. Sitting in front of the fireplace with cozy blankets whilst devouring lemon cake and mangoes (I found out that a Bridgerton cookbook has come out filled with recipes from the show and I cannot tell you how much I want it!) I also think Kate's incredibly caring and protective of her loved ones. She'd know how to listen/ give great advice.
However, I'd also pick Francesca. I was a classical musician and played in various symphonies/ broadway shows. Seeing her love for music made me nostalgic for the life I once lived. So going out for an evening with her and taking in a show like Phantom of the Opera would be magical. Sitting with someone you don't have to talk to whilst still enjoying their company? That's something special. Plus, we could geek out over the musicality of it after and talk about our favorite songs.
What about you?! Do you watch Bridgerton? Or did my plethora of posts about the show give my love for it away? 😅🙈
Okay, so can I please request some Anthony fluff? Just something soft with a wife!reader. Maybe she’s laughing and joking with his siblings and someone (probably Colin lol) says something about her deserrving the Bridgerton name or something because she gets on so well with them and just fits their vibe? idk, just some anthony x wife! reader with some of the other Bridgertons.
(i just wanna be apart of the family)
Oh, don't we all! Until then, I hope that I can do justice to your lovely request and make you a position befitting a Viscountess.
A/N: I started this with the intention to have it be a little fluffy snippet but as always it's truly gotten away from me so! Enjoy this fluffy peek into our favourite large Regency family and their loves.
Pairing: Anthony Bridgerton x Reader
Loud laughter greeted Anthony as he pushed open the doors to the drawing-room of his home. Having left Bridgerton House for a brief meeting with the Duke of Hastings (eventually, they'd returned to their schoolboy friendships since his sister's marriage, after much cajoling from their respective, and formidable, wives), the Viscount was taken aback by the sudden presence of his eternally-expanding family. Anthony had hoped to find his wife alone on his return, fully looking forward to kicking off his boots and throwing his coat to one side before spending the rest of the beautiful day enjoying the love of his life in every place across the estate he could come up with. It appeared, however, that society had other intentions for him seeing as the said object of his affections was currently the centre of his siblings' attention in the centre of their brightest receiving room instead. Y/N had taken up prime position on his favourite chair, as she so often did when entertaining without him as if it provided her with a sliver of the comfort and support his presence did, and was flitting expertly between a conversation with Benedict about an exhibition they were hoping to visit across town and braiding Hyacinth's hair so that it sat just as she'd seen in a new kind of magazine.
His wife. His Viscountess. The reason he got up most mornings, the woman with the twinkle in her eye and usually the extra bun in her hand, the friend (how odd his younger self would have found him, he thought, to consider his wife his best friend) who had him laughing into his soup and lounging, among other activities, under the trees across the grounds. The person whose laugh always seemed to call to him across ballrooms and the face he sought whenever her hand was not against him. This woman who had him chase her through the season, asking for dances, bringing flowers, reading her favourite books, even sitting with her mother through tea on more than one occasion. His partner in all things public and private but importantly his biggest champion, even when perhaps he himself was not. This was the woman he would fight all the Dukes and Princes in the world for one moment with, let alone to have pledged his every day for the rest of his ridiculous and chaotic life.
It wasn't until he heard a most ungentlemanly guffaw erupt from the brother who had slid next to him, with a sandwich he'd clearly pinched from a tray by their family, that the eldest Bridgerton was finally pulled from his reverie. Anthony's siblings had never pulled their punches about ribbing their oldest brother at any opportunity, but since the arrival of their newest sister-in-law, they simply couldn't believe how much new content they had. As it was, Colin was still chuckling around his stolen sustenance. "Doesn't it just make you want to recite poetry from the rooftops dear brother mine? I can practically see the hearts in your eyes, Prince Charming."
Thankfully, Colin was rescued from his inevitable fate at the hands of the Viscount by a sudden eruption of laughter from the room before them. Their attentions are caught by the bright red blush now making its way across Benedict's face across from the bizarre sight of Eloise struggling to breathe and clinging to the Viscountess as if she were the only thing keeping her in her seat. Even their usually better-reserved mother appeared to be tittering behind her teacup and Y/N looked rather bashfully pleased with herself at the effect her comment had clearly had on her family.
"Are you sure you didn't happen upon our long lost sister and marry her accidentally?"
Anthony instinctively prepared his signature glower and what would inevitably have been a rather well-rehearsed and utilised chastising, but one glance across the room had the breath knocked from him rather uncharacteristically at the dazzling but mischievous smile being shot at him by his equally ethereal wife. As it had been since their very first meeting, all the noise and bodies around them seemed to melt away into a fuzzy haze. The bustle of rooms ceased to exist and there was nothing even his meddlesome family could do that would draw him from the gaze of the one person who seemed to peer directly into his soul and still come away beaming and with a face mirroring his own adoration.
Both elder Bridgerton boys wiggled their brows at him suggestively, inches away from making some unseemly joke or another, but Viscount Anthony Bridgerton was far too busy striding towards the woman grinning at him with their niece now settled contentedly atop her lap. Society be damned, he thought to himself, a wide smile gracing his face as he took her cheeks in hand and kissed her with every ounce of love and passion he held - for their past, present, and future.
