“I felt like I was stepping into a brilliantly complicated role as opposed to a romantic lead role,” Bailey said. The moment informs Anthony’s inability to be vulnerable – something that haunts him as he grapples with a tangle of emotions surrounding his impending nuptials. Season 2 focuses on the eldest son/child Anthony and his quest for a wife, and explains how he became Viscount Bridgerton in the first place: The sudden death of his father after a deadly bee sting. All intimate scenes have a larger purpose. (The couple didn’t consummate their relationship until the end of the season.) “And I think the award is very well deserved.”Ĭreator Chris Van Dusen adds, “We never do a sex scene to do a sex scene, and we never will. “It would have been a mistake for Kate and Anthony to have gotten physical sooner than they did,” Bailey said. With one sex-positive season and another that boils down to a slow burn, who knows what a third will look like? All we know is that it will star the second eldest son, art scholar Benedict Bridgerton. Review: ‘Bridgerton’ Shines Bright in Season 2, Even With Less Sex and No Duke This season follows Anthony’s courtship with Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley), as he simultaneously woos his sister Edwina (Charithra Chandran).
“It’s right to surprise an audience and keep them a bit on their toes.”īailey adds that it made sense for the longevity of the Shonda Rhimes-produced series - there are six more love stories to tell, after all, as the series follows the rest of Julia Quinn’s novels - to add variety to types of romances.
“What you lose in sex scenes, you gain in deeper human understanding, which hopefully enriches the world so future intimacy scenes aren’t the heaviest, and (you) won’t have to lean on it so much,” Bailey, 33, said in an interview. Star Jonathan Bailey, who plays the romantic lead role of Anthony Bridgerton, supported the most chaste season. All anyone could talk about after binging the first season of “Bridgerton” were the steamy sex scenes between Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon (Rege Jean-Page).īut after Season 2 dropped on Netflix last Friday, waiting viewers quickly learned that Season 2 contained virtually none.