Bridgerton Books Have Black Characters

At first glance netflix and bridgerton s choice to cast black actors as characters written as white people in its source material regé jean page plays romantic lead simon duke of hastings.

Bridgerton books have black characters. And charlotte s presence on the show is very much addressed by its black characters noting that without her they would not necessarily have been. A duke footman lady s maid or even a respected boxer. So when it came to adapting bridgerton.

Netflix s bridgerton is just the right medicine the recent netflix release bridgerton with its colour conscious casting is just the answer that creative heads like julian fellowes need who have every excuse to justify an all white cast in their shows. The bridgerton family is made up of white actors like dynevor while the duke of hastings is played by page who is black. In the show she is a black woman who ascended the throne resulting in a more accepting world filled with equal opportunity where it wasn t radical to see black elite and middle class people.

In bridgerton the new shonda rhimes period drama on netflix the lords and ladies of early 19th century britain are depicted as black as well as white. In bridgerton though the characters races are nonstarters because they weren t a part of the original books. It was very much a conscious choice not a blind choice said american author julia quinn whose book series of.

Like black people in real life the black characters in shondaland s bridgerton. How netflix s bridgerton show is different from the books and if daphne and simon end up together in the books and more bridgerton. The first season of show centers around the relationship between a white future duchess daphne bridgerton phoebe dynevor and a black inheritor of dukedom simon basset regé jean page.