Netflix has shared a first look at Queen Charlotte. It embeds you back into the culture that you should have always been embedded in.'īelow, everything we know about the upcoming show, titled Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Great, so when’s the next thing I can be in?’ I don’t need to think that any more.' She continued, 'When small children of colour feel they can dress up as their favourite Regency character, it’s a win. and the riposte to the ‘go back where you came from’ people. “For decades, I would go, ‘Oh, they’re making another costume drama. 'The genie's out of the bottle,' Andoh told the FT.

She also mused on the legacy of the Bridgerton series, especially when it comes to onscreen diversity. The veteran actress, who has just begun a year-long stint as a visiting professor of contemporary theatre at Oxford, went on to compare Rhimes's writing to Shakespeare's, 'in its flow and its rhythm and its repetitions and its wit and its agility.” The prequel will 'fill out the characters in terms of how they got to be who they are and how they got to be here,' Andoh shared with the Financial Times. It will also explore the early lives of Lady Danbury (Arsema Thomas will play the younger version of Adjoa Andoh's character) and Bridgerton matriarch Violet ( Ruth Gemmell). As if Bridgerton's much anticipated sophomore season, plus the promise of several more -the Netflix show is based on Julia Quinn's series of eight novels, each of which focuses on a different Bridgerton sibling's quest to find love-wasn't enough to satiate the most enthusiastic fans of this frothy Regency-era hit, Deadline broke the news of a prequel last May, and now it's finally here.Īlso masterminded by Shonda Rhimes via her production company Shondaland, the spinoff centers on a young Queen Charlotte (India Amarteifio) and the great societal shift she brought on with her marriage to King George, leading to the creation of the Ton.

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