Bridgerton Casting Black Actors

The bridgerton family is made up of white actors like dynevor while the duke of hastings is played by page who is black.

Bridgerton casting black actors. Bridgerton has been praised as a racially diverse show set in the regency era because having black people in a big budget production period show or film about england before the 1900s feels. 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. In true shondaland fashion diversity has been a crucial feature of the series casting leaving some viewers leaning on the incredibly outdated argument that people of colour.

The 30 year old actor sees bridgerton and his portrayal as simon as a crucial opportunity to spotlight black joy over black suffering telling esquire setting the story in the past doesn t.