Bridgerton Cast Color

Nicola coughlan speaks out about concerns over bridgerton s color blind casting bridgerton star nicola coughlan opened up about the netflix show s diverse cast and explained how she sees her.
Bridgerton cast color. Bridgerton s diverse cast is great and all but season 2 needs to be more color brave. Surely the inspiration bridgerton takes from 1997 s cinderella can t be costume deep. But its core is escapism.
But the fact that the show rewrites history to bestow titles like queen and duke on black characters does not make bridgerton a project that features color blind casting. 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. However several historians have looked into queen charlotte s genealogy and have found evidence of black ancestry contrary to previously believed all white royal roots.
Adjoa andoh and regé jean. If producers are going to claim a production is progressive and has color blind casting whatever. As the series imagines a transformative version of history in which people of color in england are also bestowed nobility.
Meet the characters and who plays them. The netflix hit departs from the homogeneous casting of most period drama imagining a 19th century britain with black royalty and aristocrats.